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In a snub to the Congressand a big jolt to the

Opposition unity ahead of theLok Sabha polls, Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) on Wednesdayannounced to go alone inthe Madhya Pradesh andRajasthan Assembly pollss lated to be held later this year.

The announcement wasmade on the day when seniorCongress leader and formerMadhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Digvijay Singh, in aninterview to a private newschannel, a l leged thatMayawati was reluctant to bepart of an Opposition allianceas she had succumbed to thepressure of the CBI andEnforcement Directorate(ED).

“We will have no truckwith the Congress in MadhyaPradesh and RajasthanAssembly polls and the partywill contest all the seats inboth the States,” Mayawatiannounced here onWednesday.

Trying to play down thedevelopment, the Congresshoped that the BSP chiefreposing her faith in Rahuland Sonia Gandhi will pro-vide it a window of opportu-nity and “creases will beironed out” with harmony.

Congress chief spokesper-son Randeep Surjewala said,“Mayawati has expressed her

sentiments and we respectthat. She has reposed fullfaith in Rahulji and Soniajiand we respect that too.

If there is harmonyamong Sonia Gandhi, who isour guide, and Rahul Gandhi,who is our leader, andMayawatiji, then no fourthperson can create a rift amongthem.

“If there are any creasesleft, they will be ironed outmutually among them withharmony,” he told reporters,adding once the leaders have

amicable, respectable, fruitfulrelationship with each other,all other creases can be ironedout.

“In this yajna, those whowill support the Congresswill move together with usand they are welcome accord-ing to the political situation.Those who are unable to walkalong are free to choose theirown path. But, that does notmean, the Congress’s pledgeand fight against the BJP andin removing it has weakened.It can be a thought of a par-

ticular person, but not us,”Surjewala said.

The Congress may behopeful of st i l l wooingMayawati, but the BSP chiefwas vehement in her criticismof the grand old party.

Mayawati claimed thatBSP had the power to changethe political tide of the coun-try and the Congress was justtrying to hold the party toransom by offering a fewseats in the alliance.

She even went to theextent of alleging that the

Congress was trying to finishthe BSP.

The BSP has alreadyforged a pre-poll alliance inChhattisgarh with the JanataCongress (Chhattisgarh), ledby former tr ibal ChiefMinister Ajit Jogi last month.

Mayawati went on toallege that the Congressalways tried to corner the BSPand other smaller parties.

“They should know thatthe BSP is a party whichcame into existence fromstruggle to represent the sarvsamaj along with Dalits, trib-als and the poor. We haveexperienced several such bul-lying tactics in the past by theCongress and the BJP buthave never bowed down toany pressure,” she said.

Talking about the sacri-fices made by the BSP andherself, Mayawati said thatshe scarified her Governmentin UP in 2003 while later a few yearsback she resigned from theRajya Sabha for the cause ofDalits and sarv samaj.

“We have never compro-mised on issues of Dalits and

other backward communitiesin the past and will not do soin future too,” she said.

Mayawati alleged that theCongress had always insultedDalits and even Dr BRAmbedkar and Kanshi Ramwere not spared by them.“These feudal-minded politicalparties, who are castiest andhave communal faces, arealways opposed to leaders whocome from backward castesand now they are trying to wipeout the BSP through theirpolitical conspiracy,” she said.

The BSP president alsodid not spare the BJP sayingboth the Congress and theBJP were two sides of thesame coin.

“The BJP has ditched thepeople of the country by notfulfilling any of the promisesmade during the 2014 LokSabha polls besides demon-etisation and GST have bro-ken lives of the people and theeconomy. Rising prices ofpetroleum products and devaluation of rupee in com-parison to dollar has createdan economic crisis in thecountry,” she added.

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Justice Ranjan Gogoi, whotook over as the 46th Chief

Justice of India on Wednesday,did some plain speaking on hisfirst day in office, telling thelawyers that fresh parameterswould be worked out for urgent mentioning of the mat-ters for hearing.

The CJI also came outwith a new roster allocatingcases to various benches anddecided that the Public InterestLitigation matters will be heardby him and a Bench headed byJustice Madan B Lokur, who isnext in seniority to him.

Justice Gogoi was admin-istered oath of office by

President Ramnath Kovind atthe Rashtrapati Bhavan onWednesday morning afterwhich he attended the courtand sat with Justice SK Kauland KM Joseph in court num-ber 1, the CJI’s court.

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Former Judge ofChhattisgarh High

Court, Justice C BVajpayee would be thenew Vice Chancellor ofHidayatullah NationalLaw University (HNLU).

The appointment wasmade by Chief Justice ofChhattisgarh High Court,

Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi onWednesday.

The appoint-ment was made fol-lowing ViceChancellor of HNLUProf Dr SukhpalSingh tendering hisresignation to the

Chancellor of the University bymeeting him personally inBilaspur.

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nation 04RAIPUR | THURSDAY | OCTOBER 4, 2018

STAFF REPORTER nATAL NAGAR

The State Cabinet chaired byChief Minister Raman

Singh on Wednesday endorsedthe proposal to cover resi-dents of 1080 villages undernine Modified AreaDevelopment Agency(MADA) areas incorporatingAntyodaya and Priority rationcard holders by giving themtwo kilograms of chickpeas atthe rate of Rs five per kilogram.

The benefit is beingextended under ChhattisgarhFood and Nutrition SecurityAct 2012.

MADA areas are identifiedpockets of concentration ofScheduled Tribe (ST) popula-tion containing 50% or moreST population within a totalpopulation of minimum of

10,000. The decision will ben-efit 1,27,114 ration card hold-ing families in these areas.

In Chhattisgarh, nineMADA exist in seven districts.As per details, Raigarh districthas two MADA areas ofGopalpur and Sarangarh hav-ing 33 and 100 villages,Rajnandgaon district hasNachniya with 77 villages,Baloda Bazar has Baloda Bazarwith 147 villages, Janjgir-Champa district has Rujgahaving 46 villages, Kabirdhamdistrict has Kawardha with219 villages, Mahasamund hasMahasamund-1 with 200 vil-lages and Mahasamund-2 has215 villages and Dhamtari dis-trict has Gangrel MADA areahave 43 villages. The decisionwould especially benefit ethnicprimitive tribe mainly Baigaand Kamar tribes.

In another significant deci-sion, ChhattisgarhAutonomous Medical CollegeEducation Model Service Rule2018 would be enforced. Underthe Rule, Executive Council ofAutonomous Committee of

Medical and Dental Collegeswould hold the power toappoint regular teachers.

The salaries and benefitspayment has to be donethrough the revenue generatedby autonomous colleges.

Provision has been made thatselected teachers would beworking in respective college ofappointment and their ser-vices are not transferable.

Colleges under the rulesare not allowed to fill adminis-trative posts of Dean, Principaland Hospital Superintendent.The status quo will be main-tained for services of alreadyworking faculty and those reg-

ular teachers selected throughChhattisgarh State PublicService Commission.

As per Cabinet decision,under Animal HusbandryDevelopment Department, theregistered ‘Gaushala’ will alsobe given solar pumps under‘Saur Sujala Yojna’, to assist inproviding drinking water tocattle and for fodder produc-tion. Presently under thisscheme, farmers are beinggiven solar pumps throughsubsidy. The target is to install51,000 solar irrigation pumpswhich were later increased to56,574 pumps by March 2019.In current fiscal year 2018-19at a cost of Rs 490 crore around19,494 solar irrigation pumpshave been already installed. Asper Cabinet decision, phase-wise solar pumps would beinstalled in ‘Gaushalas’.

Govt includes 1,080 villages under MADA areas

STAFF REPORTER n SUKMA

Three Maoists were gunneddown in an encounter with

security forces in a dense for-est patch of restive Sukma dis-trict of Chhattisgarh, policesaid on Wednesday.

Besides, one militant wasarrested from the encountersite, , they said.

The gun battle took placeon Tuesday evening in the for-est of Muler village when a teamof the District Reserve Guard(DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, according toSukma District Superintendent

of Police (SP) Abhishek Meena.Security forces had

launched the operation afterreceiving specific inputs aboutpresence of rebels in the area,said.

An exchange of fire ensuedbetween the two sides when thepatrolling team was descendingfrom a hill, the police officersaid.

After the guns fell silent,bodies of three Maoists wererecovered from the spot. One315 bore rifle, four muzzleloading guns, one pipe bomband commodities of daily usewere also found, he said.

The identity of thedeceased Maoists was yet to beascertained as the patrollingteam was still inside the forest,he said.

3 Maoists gunneddown in encounter

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Following directives ofElection Commission of

India (ECI), the Office ofChhattisgarh Chief ElectoralOfficer (CEO) organized aTraining-cum-Workshop forall the 27 Returning Officers(ROs) in the city onWednesday.

The Workshop was alsoparticipated by Deputy DistrictElectoral Officers of all the 90State assembly constituencies.

As per ECI norms, all theReturning Officers andAssistant Returning Officershave to undergo specializedtraining and examinations areconducted after which certifi-cation is provided to them onclearing the examination.

Chhattisgarh has becomethe first State to conduct such

examination and training tothose not having cleared theexamination, officials informed.

ECI has also directed not toappoint any official not clearingthe examination for poll duty.

CEO Subrat Sahoo also onthe occasion held review meet-ing on progress of the electionrelated works and preparationsunderway for the upcomingAssembly polls.

Additional CEO Dr SBharati Dasan, Joint CEO,

S a m e e rV i s h n o i ,P a d m i n iBhoi Sahuwere alsopresent.

Aphoto-exhi-bition of theSVEEP pro-g r a m m e s

was held in all 27 districts inthe auditorium premises.

After the final publicationof the electoral rolls in theState, in all the 27 districts, theappointment of sector offi-cers, training of MediaCertification and MonitoringCommittee (MCMC) mem-bers, appointments of Officeron Special duty for postal bal-lot papers and other electionrelated works have been expe-dited.

ECI holds training &workshop for 27 ROs

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Private hospitals inChhattisgarh have decided

not to offer treatment topatients under 'AyushmanBharat Scheme' of the CentralGovernment.

A decision was taken inthis regard by State unit ofIndian Medical Association(IMA) on Wednesday in thewake of pending paymentsunder National HealthInsurance Scheme.

President, Hospital Boardof IMA, Dr Rakesh Guptainformed that in a major deci-sion, the State unit of IMA onWednesday decided that untilthe government takes initiativefor getting cleared all pendingpayments of treatment doneunder National HealthInsurance Scheme (NHIS), theprivate hospitals will not treat

patients under AyushmanBharat Scheme.

Notably, the CentralGovernment launched theambitious Ayushman BharatScheme under which poorfamilies can undergo treat-ment of aliments related toliver, heart, cancer, brain

tumour among others.‘Ayushman Bharat Scheme’

provides facilities to poor fam-ilies for treatment of criticaldiseases upto Rs 5 lakh. Thenationwide scheme waslaunched by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi at Jangala inBastar region of the State.

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

The women’s wing ofChhattisgarh unit of

Congress party under leader-ship of party’s Women’s WingNational President SushmitaDev on Wednesday marchedto Raj Bhawan while protest-ing against commodity pricehike and also steep rise inprice of LPG cylinder and

petroleum products.They were intercepted by

the police near Moti Bagh andwere court arrested.

The activists were alsoholding banners and placardsdemanding immediate action.

A minor scuffle betweenpolice and the woman activistswas also reported when thelatter tried to cross the barri-cade.

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

The Bharatiya Janata Party hasalways kept people’s issues

and concerns on top priority andstrives to resolve them. This iswhy the party is now againgoing before the people to pro-vide their mandate to form theGovernment in the State for thefourth consecutive time, Ministerfor Commercial Tax, UrbanDevelopment, Commerce andIndustries and Public EnterprisesAmar Agarwal said onWednesday.

Addressing a press confer-ence here, the Minister said thatthe party feels that poll issuesshould be related to people’s life,education, health, employmentamong others.

Commenting on the seriesof incidents in the State, Agarwaltermed it as unfortunate and saidthat the Congress party does nothave anything to say about issuesrelated to the public.

To maintain its relevance,the Congress party has beenadopting different types of anticswhich are paving way for dis-turbing the peaceful atmosphere

of the State. BJP is very clear thatelection should be fought on thesubjects closely related to thepeople, he said.

Agarwal said that in comingdays, the achievements of Stategovernment would be madeknown to the people of theState. In this series, the achieve-ments of Commercial Tax,Urban Development, Commerceand Industries and PublicEnterprises are being provided.

He said that as per agenda ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi,all the areas under various civicbodies in the state have beenmade Open Defecation Free(ODF)

Cong Women’s Wingactivists march to RajBhawan, court arrest

Private hospitals say ‘no’ toAyushman Bharat Scheme

The much-awaited Skywalk at Shastri Chowk is seen under construction in Raipur city. Just near the Skywalk, a massive trafficjam could be seen on Wednesday Santosh Sahu/Pioneer

BJP keepspublic issueson toppriority: Amar

GUN BATTLE TOOK PLACEIN THE FOREST OF MULERVILLAGE

1.27 lakhbeneficiaries of 9

MADA areas inState to get 2 kgchickpeas at Rs

5 per kg,Gaushalas to getsolar irrigation

pumps

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For some who survived themassive earthquake and

tsunami on Indonesia’sSulawesi island last week, thememories and the horror ofexperiencing a disaster thathas left more than 1,400 peo-ple dead are both hard to eraseand understand.

Furniture maker KhairulHassan recalled working at ashop near the beach in front ofa row of warehouses when theground came alive and shookviolently. He ran to a nearby hilland watched as the oceanheaved up and hurled forward.Now he can’t forget.

“I saw the waves come andsweep out everything — build-ings, factories, warehouses andsome people who were lost,racing from the waves, some ofthem women and children,” hesaid Wednesday. “Also, ware-house workers who weretrapped under goods, all sweptby the sea. It’s so tragic. It’s soscary to remember.”

Five days later, aid wasslowly creeping into areas

where victims have becomeincreasingly desperate afterbeing left without food, water,fuel and medicine. In oneneighborhood in the city ofPalu, residents celebrated asthey swarmed a truck deliver-

ing aid — clapping, cheeringand high-fiving.

“I’m so happy,” saidHeruwanto, 63, who goes byone name. He was clutching abox of instant noodles. “I real-ly haven’t eaten for three days.”

The official death tollincreased to 1,407 on

Wednesday, with thousandsinjured and more than 70,000displaced from their homes,said national disaster agencyspokesman Sutopo PurwoNugroho. He said the numberof dead would increase, but thatrescue crews had reached allaffected areas.

Geneva: The UN CentralEmergency Response Fund hasannounced it will allocate $15million to help the victims,especially women and girls, ofthe devastating earthquake andtsunami that rocked Indonesia’sSulawesi island last week.

The twin disasters claimedover 1,400 lives, caused wide-spread damage by destroyinghomes, buildings and infra-structure. According toIndonesian officials, an esti-mated 2.4 million people wereaffected. The number of deadwas expected to rise amid ongo-ing rescue operations.

UN Under Secretary-General for HumanitarianAffairs and Emergency ReliefCoordinator Mark Lowcocksaid funds will meet mosturgent needs of women andgirls because “we know fromexperience round world (they)are often particularly vulnera-ble in circumstances like this”,Efe news reported. IANS

Washington: North Korea’snuclear and missile tests havestopped, but its hacking opera-tions to gather intelligence andraise funds for sanction-strappedGovernment in Pyongyang maybe gathering steam.

US security firm FireEyeraised the alarm Wednesdayover a North Korean group thatit says has stolen hundreds ofmillions of dollars by infiltrat-ing the computer systems ofbanks around the world since2014 through highly sophisti-cated and destructive attacksthat have spanned at least 11countries. It says the group isstill operating and poses “anactive global threat.”

It is part of a wider patternof malicious state-backed cyberactivity that has led the Trumpadministration to identifyNorth Korea — along withRussia, Iran and China — asone of the main online threatsfacing the United States. Lastmonth, the Justice Departmentcharged a North Korean hack-er said to have conspired indevastating cyberattacks,including an $81 million heistof Bangladesh’s central bankand the WannaCry virus thatcrippled parts of Britain’sNational Health Service.

On Tuesday, USDepartment of HomelandSecurity warned of use of mal-ware by Hidden Cobra, the USGovernment’s byword for NorthKorea hackers, in fraudulentATM cash withdrawals frombanks in Asia and Africa. It saidHidden Cobra was behind theftof tens of millions of dollarsfrom teller machines in the pasttwo years, it said. AP

Stockholm: US scientistsFrances Arnold and GeorgeSmith and British researcherGregory Winter won the NobelChemistry Prize on Wednesdayfor applying the principles ofevolution to develop enzymesused to make everything frombiofuels to medicine.

Arnold, just the fifthwoman to clinch chemistry’smost prestigious honour, wonone half of the nine millionSwedish kronor (about $1.01million or 870,000 euros)award, while Smith and Wintershared the other half.

“The 2018 Nobel Laureatesin Chemistry have taken con-trol of evolution and used it forpurposes that bring the great-est benefit to humankind,” theSwedish Royal Academy ofSciences said. The trio used thesame principles of evolution —genetic change and selection —to develop proteins used in arange of fields.

“They have applied theprinciples of Darwin in testtubes. They have used the mol-ecular understanding we have

of the evolutionary processand recreated the process intheir labs,” the head of theAcademy’s Nobel Chemistrycommittee, Claes Gustafsson,told reporters.

“They have been able tomake evolution many 1000s oftimes faster and redirect it tocreate new proteins.” Arnold,62, who has survived breastcancer and is a single motherto three sons, is a professor ofchemical engineering at theCalifornia Institute ofTechnology. Her method ofrewriting DNA to mimic evo-lution has helped solve prob-lems such as replacing toxicchemicals like fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, Smith, of theUniversity of Missouri, andWinter, a 67-year-old geneticengineer at the MRCLaboratory of MolecularBiology at Cambridge, devel-oped an “elegant method”known as phage display, wherea bacteriophage — a virus thatinfects bacteria — can be usedto evolve new proteins, the jurysaid. AFP

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President Donald Trumpignited a crowd at a cam-

paign rally in Mississippi bymocking a woman who hasclaimed she was sexuallyassaulted by Supreme Courtnominee Brett Kavanaughdecades ago.

The audience laughed asTrump ran through a list ofwhat he described as holes inChristine Blasey Ford’s testi-mony before the SenateJudiciary Committee.

She testified thatKavanaugh pinned her on abed, tried to take off her clothesand covered her mouth in theearly 1980s, when the two wereteenagers.

Kavanaugh has deniedFord’s allegations.

“How did you get home? ‘Idon’t remember,’” Trump saidat the rally Tuesday inSouthaven. “How did you getthere? ‘I don’t remember.’Where is the place? ‘I don’tremember.’ How many yearsago was it? ‘I don’t know. I don’tknow. I don’t know.’”

Imitating Ford, he added,“But I had one beer — that’s theonly thing I remember.”

It marked the sharpest crit-icism by Trump of Ford sinceshe came forward publicly withthe allegation last month.

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Pakistan has announced thatSaudi Arabia will not be

made part of the $50 billionChina-Pakistan EconomicCorridor (CPEC) frameworkand the kingdom’s proposedinvestments would fall under aseparate bilateral arrangement,days after Islamabad saidRiyadh will be the third “strate-gic partner” of the project.

Speaking at a joint newsconference with InformationMinister Fawad Chaudhry,Minister for Planning andDevelopment Khusro Bakhtiaron Tuesday said there was nodecision to bring a third coun-try, like Saudi Arabia, under theframework of the CPEC.

The CPEC envisages link-ing China’s Kashgar in Xinjiangto Pakistan’s Gwadar port. Theproject — a key component ofBeijing’s Belt and Road pro-gramme — is opposed by Indiaas its planned route goesthrough the disputed Kashmirregion. Many countries includ-ing India suspect the project isChina’s geostrategic ploy.

Bakhtiar said there could bemany offshoots of the CPEC

where third countries could beinvolved in a trilateral arrange-ment for infrastructure devel-opment, Dawn online reported.

“Saudi Arabia is not tobecome a collateral strategicpartner in the CPEC. Thisimpression is not true,” hesaid, adding that third countryparticipation in the CPEC wasnot limited to Saudi Arabia butother countries could alsobecome part of the businessand investment ventures aris-ing out of the project.

“The framework betweenChina and Pakistan is bilater-al and Saudi Arabia is notentering that framework as athird-party investor, rather thebase of CPEC will be broad-ened and its pace will be expe-dited,” he said.

Bakhtiar was responding toquestions about the possibilityof Saudi Arabia becoming partof the Joint Working Groups orJoint Coordination Committeeon the CPEC. He expressedignorance when asked howthe cost of the Main RailwayLine (ML-I) had been reducedfrom $8.2 billion to $6.2 billionas claimed by Railway MinisterShaikh Rashid Ahmed.

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The United Nations’ highestcourt on Wednesday

ordered the United States to liftsanctions on Iran that affectimports of humanitarian goodsand products and serviceslinked to civil aviation safety.

The ruling by theInternational Court of Justiceis legally binding, but it remainsto be seen if the administrationof President Donald Trumpwill comply.

Trump moved to restoretough US sanctions in Mayafter withdrawing fromTehran’s nuclear accord withworld powers. Iran challengedthe sanctions in a case filed inJuly at the International Courtof Justice (ICJ).

In a preliminary ruling, thecourt said that Washingtonmust “remove, by means of itschoosing, any impedimentsarising from” the re-impositionof sanctions to the export toIran of medicine and medical devices, food and agri-cultural commodities and spare parts and equipmentnecessary to ensure the safetyof civil aviation.

By limiting the order tosanctions covering humani-tarian goods and the civil avi-

ation industry, the ruling didnot go as far as Iran hadrequested.

The US ambassador to theNetherlands, Peter Hoekstra,pointed that out in a tweet.

“This is a meritless caseover which the court has nojurisdiction,” the ambassadortweeted. “Even so, it is worthnoting that the Court declinedtoday to grant the sweepingmeasures requested by Iran.Instead, the Court issued a nar-row decision on a very limitedrange of sectors.”

While imposing the so-called “provisional measures,”the court’s president,Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf,stressed that the case will con-tinue and the United Statescould still challenge the court’sjurisdiction.

Iran’s Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarifpraised the court ruling onTwitter, calling it “another fail-ure for sanctions-addicted”U.S. and a “victory for rule oflaw.” He added that it is imper-ative for the international com-munity “to collectively countermalign US unilateralism.”

Iranian state televisiontrumpeted the court’s decisionin a scrolling graphic at the bot-tom of TV screens, “The vic-tory of Tehran over

Washington by the HagueCourt.”

No date has been set forfurther hearings in the case.

At hearings in August,Tehran sought the suspensionof sanctions while the casechallenging their legality isbeing heard — a process thatcan take years. US lawyersresponded that the sanctionsare a legal and justified nation-al security measure that cannotbe challenged by Tehran at theworld court.

In its decision, the courtsaid that the US sanctions“have the potential to endangercivil aviation safety” in Iran andthat sanctions limiting sales ofgoods required for humanitar-ian needs such as food, medi-cines and medical devices “mayhave a serious detrimentalimpact on the health and livesof individuals on the territoryof Iran.”

The court said the Trumpadministration must “ensurethat licences and necessaryauthorisations are granted” andpayments not restricted if theyare linked to the humanitarianand aviation goods.

The court also told boththe United States and Iran to“refrain from any action whichmight aggravate or extend thedispute.”

Colombo: A mass grave withskeletal remains of around 151people have been found in SriLanka’s former war zone wherethe government forces andTamil Tiger rebels wereengaged in a 30-year civil war,officials said on Wednesday.

At least 14 of the skeletalremains found in the north-eastern district of Mannar wereof children. The digging workat the old cooperative store sitein Mannar was conducted forthe 79th day Tuesday to estab-lish if it was a mass burial site.

In March, the constructionworkers had found remainswhen the ground was dug tobuild a new construction.Excavations were on sinceMarch. The remains have beenkept in a special room of theMannar magistrate court andwill be sent for carbon testing.

Amid international com-plaints of large numbers ofmissing in Sri Lanka’s conflictssince the 1980, the office ofmissing persons was set up thisyear. Various probes set upfrom time to time since the1990s have found that nearly25,000 people are missing as aresult of the armed conflicts.

Mannar was occupied bythe LTTE during Sri Lanka’scivil war between 1983 and2009. PTI

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Dubai: President DonaldTrump said Saudi Arabia’s king“might not be there for twoweeks” without US militarysupport, further increasing hispressure on one of America’sclosest Mideast allies over ris-ing oil prices.

As crude oil prices reach afour-year high, Trump repeat-edly has demanded OPEC andSaudi Arabia, the world’s biggestoil exporter, push prices down.However, analysts are warningprices could go up to $100 a bar-rel as the world’s production isalready stretched and Trump’ssanctions on Iran’s oil industrytake effect in early November.

Criticising America’s long-standing military relationshipswith allies has been a hallmarkof Trump’s presidential cam-paign and his time in office.Trump returned to that themeTuesday night in Southaven,Mississippi, mentioning bothJapan and South Korea.

Trump’s comments on SaudiArabia implied the kingdom’s AlSaud monarchy, which overseesholiest sites in Islam, will collapsewithout American military sup-port. “We protect Saudi Arabia— would you say they’re rich?”Trump asked cheering crowd.“And I love the king, KingSalman, but I said, ‘King we’reprotecting you. You might not bethere for two weeks without us.You have to pay for your military,you have to pay.’” AP

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Kuala Lumpur: Wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister NajibRazak was arrested on Wednesday on money-laundering chargesrelated to corruption scandal. Rosmah Mansor was arrested byMalaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission and will face severalmoney laundering charges, Efe news reported citing a statement.This was Rosmah’s third appearance in front of commission aftershe was interrogated on June 5 and September 26. IANS

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Reset seems to be the reigning buzz-word, and strategic autonomy theoperative mantra in India’s diplomat-ic lexicon. In fact, it is set to be theyear of diplomatic reset for India with

three of its key strategic partners and majorglobal players, including the US, Russia andChina. Amid a rapidly mutating geo-strategicenvironment, Prime Minister Narendra Modiheld his first informal summit with ChinesePresident Xi Jinping in Wuhan in April, pavingthe way for a new phase of post-Doklam sta-bility in India-China relations. With the US,India held its first 2+2 dialogue in September,which underlined growing strategic connectbetween the world’s leading democracies.

The reset with Russia, amid mutual mis-givings sparked by third country relationships,started with Prime Minister Modi’s first infor-mal summit with Russian President Vladimir

Putin in the resort city of Sochi in May.Building on the Sochi understanding, India isnow rolling out the red carpet for PresidentPutin, a trusted and time-tested friend.

Amid concerns in Moscow about NewDelhi’s tilt towards Washington, Modi’s annu-al summit meeting with President Putin in NewDelhi on October 5 is set to reaffirm the piv-otal importance of India-Russia special andprivileged strategic partnership in the foreignpolicy calculus of New Delhi. The multifari-ous outcomes during President Putin’s visit willnot only galvanise multi-faceted India-Russiaties across the spectrum, but will also under-line India’s strategic autonomy and sovereign-ty against the backdrop of mounting concernsin Moscow about New Delhi’s deepeningstrategic connect with Washington.

S-400 dilemma: India has been under pres-sure from the US to curtail and roll back itsrobust defence partnership with Russia, espe-cially regarding the planned purchase of the S-400 missile system. The S-400 missile systemcould potentially be targeted by secondarysanctions under Countering America’sAdversaries through Sanctions Act (CAATSA)as there is no categorical statement by the USyet on a waiver for India. Given India’s highstakes in its relations with two of its leadingstrategic partners, US and Russia, it’s not aneasy decision to make. But in a delicate diplo-

matic tightrope walk, the Narendra ModiGovernment has already taken an overarchingstrategic decision to go ahead with this crucialacquisition.

Ahead of Putin’s visit, Russian ForeignMinister Sergei Lavrov has expressed hope thatIndia will make a “sovereign decision” onRussian defence purchases, which are facingpossible US sanctions. Going by the latestdevelopments, India is set to pass this sover-eignty test. India is also hopeful of a waiver byUS President Donald Trump for the S-400 pur-chase as it has been made clear to the US thatthe missile system is needed to bolster India’sdeterrence.

For a rising power, faced with a host ofsecurity challenges in its periphery, it’s not pos-sible to keep all its partners happy at all times.In situations which are fraught with compet-ing interests, national security interests will pre-vail. India’s decision to buy S-400 system has,therefore, become synonymous with an asser-tion of sovereignty and independent foreignand security policy.

The S-400 and other new defence dealsworth around $8-10 billion, that are expectedto be sealed during Putin’s visit, will revalidateand consolidate Russia’s status at the top sup-plier of weapons to India for the next twodecades. Russia already accounts for over 60per cent of India’s high-end weaponry.

Balancing act: Moving ahead with thesedefence deals in the face of the US’ pressurehas been underpinned by larger strategic cal-culation by India’s diplomatic-political leader-ship that no other country, including the US,can replace Russia as far as India’s vitalnational interests are concerned.

Also, India will continue to pursue a bal-ancing act in its relations with the US andRussia as well as with other major power cen-tres, like China and Japan, which remain hos-tile to each other. This balancing act is part ofthe larger foreign policy paradigm of multi-alignment pursued by the Modi Government,which entails forging multi-pronged relationswith major global power centres withoutallowing these relationships to become zerosum games.

Similarly, India will find a way to skirt theUS sanctions to continue importing oil after theNovember 4 deadline imposed by Washingtonfor reducing imports of Iranian oil to zero. Anysuch dramatic reduction is simply not viableand will severely hurt India’s economy and ener-gy security. Given their strong relations with abeleaguered Tehran, Russia and India are alsoexpected to explore a strategy to deal with theUS sanctions on Iran. Be it defence purchasesfrom the US or imports of Iranian oil, India willcontinue to assert its strategic autonomy andunderline that it can’t be dictated to by Third

countries when it comes to its vital security andeconomic interests.

All eyes will be on defence deals, especial-ly the S-400, but Putin’s India visit will not bejust about military hardware. The annual India-Russia summit will not only buttress key pil-lars of India-Russia strategic partnership,namely defence, nuclear energy and space, butwill also seek to address the economic deficitin the India-Russia relationship as it hasremained heavily security-centric. This eco-nomic focus will be crystallised in the big-tick-et meeting of around 100 CEOs of India andRussia will brainstorm to forge an action planto upscale economic partnership. New ener-gy deals in areas of civil nuclear energy andhydrocarbons are expected to be sealed dur-ing the visit.

Partnering in third countries: Giventheir convergent interests and expandingglobal footprints, India and Russia are alsoexpected to firm up plans for advancing theircooperation in third countries. India and Russiaare already partnering in setting up of a nuclearpower plant in Bangladesh. Similarly, there isan enormous potential for forging India-Russia collaboration in regions ranging fromAfghanistan and Central Asia to Africa.Although there is some disconnect betweenNew Delhi and Moscow over the latter’senthusiasm about reconciliation with the

Taliban, this should not deter the two coun-tries from pursuing joint projects in the vio-lence-torn country.

Get real: The future outlook for India-Russia relations is largely positive and opti-mistic but one should try to resist the temp-tation of romanticising this relationship. Time-tested, all-weather, special and privileged —these evocative expressions applied to India-Russia relations still remain resonant, but goingforward, it’s time to get real as India and Russiawill pursue their independent strategic inter-ests and Third country relationships, whichmay not exactly converge. But even allowingfor minor notes of dissonance, the sheer scopeand range of India-Russia strategic partnership,encompassing frontier areas of science andtechnology, space, defence,nuclear power andhydrocarbons, can’t be surpassed.

The two partners are setting their sightshigh for this mutually empowering and ener-gising partnership. Russian collaboration in‘Gaganyaan’, India’s first planned mannedspace mission, which was announced by PrimeMinister Modi during his Independence Dayaddress this year, could be another soaringmoment in this enduring friendship that is setto grow stronger amid geopolitical shifts.

(The writer is Editor-in-Chief of India andWorld magazine, and a commentator on inter-national affairs)

���������Sir — This refers to the article, “Pressfreedom and responsibility” (October3) by Venkaiah Naidu. The writer hasrightly pointed out that dissent isalways welcome but not the advoca-cy of disintegration. Any attempt tostifle or contain viewpoints will stuntintellectual development.

Today, on the pretext of freedomof expression, certain lobbies andintellectuals are compromising withthe security of nation by supportingchaotic elements indirectly. Theymust express their viewpoints but

within the parameters of the IndianConstitution and laws. A strangeperversion of the concept of freedomof expression has taken over a part ofour intellectual pursuit which must becontrolled and contained by theGovernment.

The media should function as amean for empowerment and develop-ment through informed actions.Programmes like Swachh BharatAbhiyan, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, PerDrop per Crop and Sarva ShikshaAbhiyan must take center-stage tomake people aware about them.

I also congratulate the writer for

putting up positive logics and send-ing a message across the country thatthe Government is not curbing free-dom of expression, as some of ourintellectuals are attempting to portray.

Jasim MohammadAligarh

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talists and educators alike to instillknowledge among the people forwildlife preservation. This includesactivities like seminars, essay compe-titions, public meetings and confer-ences. Wildlife preservation is a planto manage wildlife along with thehuman progress.

The Indian Government hasestablished an Indian Board ofWildlife which promotes awareness aswell as consciousness of the peopletowards wildlife preservation. It is veryimportant for everyone to make surethat animals all around the world donot get extinct. The current problem

is logging and not to mention hunt-ing/poaching of animals for horns andskins. Logging causes a major loss tothe bio-diversity. People can start bythinking about the kind of productsthey buy. They should not buy onesthat are made from animal skins. Wemust stop torturing animals anddestroying their habitats to stop themfrom getting endangered and finallyextinct.

Jubel D’CruzMumbai

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The decision to ban daily Desher Katha is apolitically motivated move. This is a brazen

attack on Press freedom.—CPI-M leader

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Desher Katha, which is the mouthpiece ofCPI-M, is being run illegally. The BJP has

nothing to do with this. —BJP secretary

RAJIB BHATTACHARJEE

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India has a coastline of 7,500km and is studded with 12major ports and close to200 minor ports. However,about 60 per cent of the total

cargo traffic is handled by majorports and the rest by intermediateand minor ports. The volume ofcargo within theintermediate/minor ports are alsounevenly distributed — bulk of thecargo moves through a few portswhile the rest of the ports are utter-ly under-utilised.

Of all the minor ports, only 61handle export-import cargo andothers are mainly fishing har-bours. Even out of these 61, onlysix enjoy rail connectivity upto theport. Another eight to 10 needlast-mile connectivity. Even roadconnectivity is a serious bottle-neck. This highlights the necessi-ty for an integrated planning forport location along with rail androad investments.

However, as revenue growthfrom cargo movement in minorports are minimal/modest, oper-ating surplus from minor ports arenot large enough to justify large-scale infrastructure upgradation inminor ports when public resourceis scarce. Thus, minor ports inIndia do not act as an engine ofgrowth unlike global counter-parts in developed countries or infast growing countries.

In India, nearly whole of therevenue of minor ports comesfrom cargo movement. On theother hand, the successful businessmodel for minor ports in devel-oped/developing countries oper-ates on the premises that this isonly another source of revenueminor ports. These ports havedrawn lessons from the technolog-ical changes in recent years in pro-duction and transport systems asa whole and maritime transport inparticular. They have reorientedthe working of minor ports indevelopment and diversified thesources of revenue to meet thechallenges posed by these newinnovations. Let us elaborate ontheir business model.

In the light of the globalised

world economy, the role of organ-isers, as well as providers of trans-port services, is changing. A spe-cial position in the integral glob-al system has been acquired bylogistics, which allows manage-ment of goods and informationflows from the source of rawmaterials to the consumers offinished products.

The role of sea carriers ischanging too. In addition to theirconventional transport function,they are involved in organising themovement of cargo. Hand-in-hand with these changes, the roleof ports is also subject to change:Apart from their conventionaloperations (such as loading, transhipment and discharge),ports are developing into consol-idation centres in which numer-ous other operations (tallying,sorting, refining/ improving thesemi-manufactures and products)are performed. As a result of thisaltered role, ports are assuming thefunction of logistics and distrib-ution, along with their traffic,commercial and industrial func-tion, combining transportationby sea, road, railway, inland water-ways and air, as the more recentdevelopment shows.

This development brings abouta change in the traditional func-tions of seaports that have so farperformed primarily the traffic,merchant and industrial func-tions. In modern logistics andsupply-chain management, a newfunction — the logistical and dis-tributional function — has joinedthe traditional group of functions.

Notably, the seaports are act-ing not only as the point of han-dling or reloading the goods ontheir transport route, but also aslogistical and distributional cen-tres that function as intermodalhubs in the supply chains, offer-ing value-added and door-to-doorservice to the customers. Thesuccess of a port in this contextdepends to a great extent on itsability to attract global, regionaland local centres for various typesof activities.

These value-added activities inthe port sector play an importantrole as the source of revenue andperform a key role in ensuringlasting economic growth of a portand its hinterland.

This trend is true even in thecase of successful hub ports, likeRotterdam and Singapore, wherethey have realised that the pres-

ence of logistics centre goes a longway in increasing the competitive-ness of the port. These portsregard the logistics centre functionto be as vital as the traditional cargo-handling function in pro-moting the port as a full-fledgedlogistics hub.

Both logistics companies andshippers agree that value-addedservices in logistics centres areimportant in supply-chain man-agement. The pressures of valueadded logistics (VAL) services inthe logistics chain have increasedthe demands of logistics centrebehind port areas.

This financial model is nowbeing replicated elsewhere, partic-ularly in case of minor ports inEurope and the United States.For instance, relatively smallerports such as Le Havre, Rouen andBarcelona in Europe are developing themselves as region-al logistics centres.

In the Port of Rouen, wheremost of the land set aside for logis-tics service has already been leasedout, the logistics zone has attract-ed business rapidly by offering

shippers savings on their transportation, storage and per-sonnel costs.

Indeed, there are many oppor-tunities for small ports to functionas logistics centres by makingextensive use of their location andland holdings. A number of small-er ports on the west coast ofNorth America have grown byconverting land no longer used formarine cargo handling into logis-tics centres and foreign tradezones.

The Port of Astoria, the Portof Longview and Port ofVancouver (in the United States,not in Canada) have drawn inmultinationals by developing newlogistics centres on land that wasformerly used for commercialmarine operations. As such, asubstantial portion of their rev-enue now comes from propertyand facility leasing.

The Port of Olympia has alsodeveloped a logistics centre and isusing it to its advantage. Thoughdecreased ports-of-call means thatfewer than three dozen ships calleach year, business is booming.

The same model is now beingreplicated in many minor/inter-mediate ports of the UNEconomic and Social Commissionfor Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)region, where emphasis has shift-ed from traditional cargo handlingfacilities to value-added logisticsservices, to remain competitive inthe regional market.

With the Government havinglaunched a series of measures,most notably the Sagarmala initia-tive, the focus is mainly on devel-opment of infrastructure at theports. Since many of the non-major ports have large land banks,they are ideally suited to be devel-oped as logistics hub. Mere devel-opment of the physical infra-structure or connectivity withhinterland will not make theminor ports financially viable.Right strategy would be to createeconomic epicentres around theminor ports with world-classinfrastructure.

(The writers are associatedwith the National Council ofApplied Economic Research. Viewsexpressed here are personal)

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October 2 came and went in India withpro-forma speeches, meetings, mes-sages and celebrations and the usual

tributes paid to the life and ideals of MahatmaGandhi and his leadership of India’s freedomstruggle. Worldwide, it was observed as theInternational Day of Non-Violence, designat-ed as such by a resolution passed by the UnitedNations General Assembly on June 15, 2007,which asked all member countries to com-memorate the day “in an appropriate mannerand disseminate the message of non-violencethrough education and public awareness.”

Yet, wars rage in Syria and Yemen.Afghanistan, India and Bangladesh are targetsof sustained Pakistan-sponsored terrorism.Fundamentalist Islamist terrorism stalksBritain, the United States, France, Germany,Holland and Spain. In India, the levels of bothcriminal and social — particularly communaland gender-related — violence are at an alarm-ing high. The cases of lynching happening atthe slightest provocation or suspicion warrantserious concern. Clearly, the steps taken tocounter these and the condemnatory state-ments, have not helped.

This is perhaps because people’s actionsare determined more by forces operating onthe ground, collective social, ethnic or religiousallegiances and antagonisms, and group andindividual interests, rather than received mes-sages. This is particularly so when the lives andconduct of people delivering the latter do notreflect any great commitment to the principlesof truth, non-violence, social inclusiveness andsimple living, and methods of non-violent resis-tance that the Mahatma had advocated. InIndia, Jayaprakash Narayan was the last greatprotagonist of Gandhian values and ideals,which he blended with his own belief in social-ism. Globally, there has been no striking appli-cation of Gandhian precepts and methods ofresistance after Aung San Suu Kyi’s epicstruggle against Myanmar’s military.

As to the ground realities, truth has gen-erally received lip service since the beginningof recorded history and has been defenestrat-

ed whenever circumstances demanded.Besides, what appears to be truth to some maynot appear so to others because, given conflict-ing versions of an incident, one is inclined toaccept as true the one that fits in with one’sworldview. Thus, while the Hungarian upris-ing of 1956 was seen by the Soviet Union andits Warsaw Pact allies as a “counter-revolution”that had to be crushed, the overwhelmingmajority of Hungarians as well as the Westerndemocracies viewed it as a surge for freedomfrom Soviet colonialism.

Non-violence as a method of conflict res-olution has a difficult soil for survival whensome countries — Pakistan being the primeexample — seek to extend their hegemonyover other countries through war and/or statesponsorship of unconventional warfarethrough terrorism. Equally, the doctrine ofnon-violence is under serious challengefrom ideologies propagating violent revolu-tion as the only means of a root-and-branchchange encompassing not only an existingregime but the prevailing fundamental socialand economic relations. Marxism is one suchideology with its concept of the proletarianrevolution; as are the various nationalist ide-ologies wedded to revolutionary praxis andforms of Islamist extremism propagating vio-lent jihad. Whatever their differences, eachof these rejects non-violence.

Third, the economic universe thatMahatma Gandhi visualised for India is in totalconflict with the technology-driven, large-scaleproduction based, market-oriented and con-sumption-inducing capitalist economy nowdominating almost the whole world. Hisemphasis was on need-based simple livingexpressed through his oft-quoted statement,“The world has enough for everybody’s needbut not enough for everybody’s greed.” Againsttransnational production and marketing in aworld increasingly becoming a global village,Mahatma Gandhi conceived an economicstructure, the constituent unit of which was tobe the self-sufficient and self-sustaining villagethat was a unit by itself in a decentralised polit-ical system. Local demand was to be met bylocal production with villagers taking tovocations catering to local needs.

Leaving aside the question of superiorityof either system, the establishment of the onethat Mahatma Gandhi advocated required thedismantling of the capitalist mode of produc-tion, financing and distribution that had devel-oped under British rule. Given the deep rootsthe capitalist system had struck by the time ofIndependence, and the powerful connectionsthose at its helm had built up, any such attempt,if seriously made, would have thrown the econ-omy and society into a massive turmoil, crip-pling both for decades.

Over the years since 1991 when the eco-nomic reforms began, market capitalism hasgrown exponentially, and the consumer cul-ture, spreading on the wings of advertising, hasbecome a dominant influence on society. Thegoal is ever-increasing consumption and notthe fulfilment of needs. But, surely, there is aneed for change. Frustration from failure tomeet compulsive consumption aspirations isleading to escalating criminal and social vio-lence; the production of enormous varieties ofgoods and the provisions of services increas-ingly in demand, is depleting the earth’sresources and emitting greenhouse gaseswhose disastrous impact in the form of glob-al warming is increasingly manifest. The casefor arriving at some approximation of aneed-based existence has never been stronger.The same goes for the establishment of the pri-macy of the principles of truth and non-vio-lence. The effort should be to formulate a strat-egy for achieving all this by October 2 next yearwhich would be the Mahatma’s 150th birthanniversary.

(The writer is Consultant Editor, ThePioneer, and an author)

Remembering Mahatma Gandhi

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In a shocking incident afarmer had to carry his dying

wife on his shoulder for threekms and also wade through ariver to take her to aGovernment hospital. But allhis frantic efforts went in vainand she was declared dead onreaching the rural hospital.

According to the police 30year old Pushpa Rathod, a debtridden tenant farmer attemptedsuicide by consuming pesticideafter her cotton crop wasdestroyed by the recent rains.Her husband Ram Rathod saidthat they had borrowed a loan of�1,00,000 from bank and privatemoneylenders to grow the cropbut his wife went into depressionwhen the crop was destroyed bythe heavy rains recently.

A resident of remoteUmbri village of Adilabad dis-trict, Pushpa consumed pesti-cide on Tuesday to end her life.

Her desperate husband maderepeated calls for an ambulanceto take her to hospital butcould not get any help, as therewas no navigable road linkingthe village to outside world.

Finally the husband carriedPushpa on his shoulder andwalked and also wadedthrough a river to reach thespot where a vehicle wasarranged. But by the time shewas taken to Government pri-mary health centre at Narnoorshe had breathed her last.

The heartrending tragedytook place just 300 kms awayfrom the State CapitalHyderabad, one of the fastestgrowing and one of the mostdeveloped city in India. This hascome close on the heel of anoth-er incident in neighboringAndhra Pradesh where a tribalwoman had to deliver in theopen forest area while she wasbeing taken by the local peopleon a makeshift palanquin.

The video of the incidentmade by a tribal youth hadgone viral on social media.

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Aveteran Telugu Desam Partyleader, member of Andhra

Pradesh legislative council andformer Member of Parliamentfrom Visakhapatnam MVVSMurthy was killed in a road acci-dent in the United States ofAmerica on Tuesday.

According to his familymembers in Visakhapatnam 76years old Murthy, who hadfounded the renowned deemeduniversity “Gitam” died when thecar he was travelling in collidedwith a truck in Alaska. Murthy,also famous as “Gitam Murthy”and Gold Spot Murthy for suc-cessfully marketing the soft drinkof that brand, was in the USA toaddress an Alumni meet of theuniversity he founded.

Murthy and three othersdied when they were on theirway from Alaska to visitAnchorage wildlife sanctuary.Others who died in the acci-dent include VBasavapunnaiah, VShivaprasad, VBR Choudhary.

Telugu Association ofNorth America president SatishVemana said that all the fourbodies were shifted to AlaskaState Medical ExaminationCentre for postmortem.Another person who wasinjured in the accident was alsoadmitted to hospital.

The news of his death sentwaves of shock inVisakhapatanam from wherehe was elected to Lok Sabha

twice in 1991 and 1999.Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterN Chandrababu Naiduexpressing deep grief and dis-tress over the death of seniorparty leader directed the StateGovernment officials based inNew Delhi to make necessaryarrangements to bring the bodyof Murthy for funeral withState honors. MVVS Murthywas with the TDP since its for-mation by the film star turnedpolitician NT Rama Rao.

A successful businessmanMurthy turned to educationwhen he founded GandhiInstitute of Technology andManagement and worked hardto take it to new heights. TheInstitute was recognized bythe Government of India as adeemed university.

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Murthy’s death has comeeven before the TDP couldrecover from the shock thedeath of another senior partyleader N Harikrishna in a roadaccident in Nalgonda districtnear Hyderabad recently.

The latest in the series ofmany such tragedies hitting theTDP men has left the partycadres wondering whether theparty was hit by any curse.

The long list of party lead-ers who fell victim to the roadaccidents include formerParliamentary party leader KYerran Naidu who was killed onNovember 2, 2012 in when hewas returning to his hometownSrikaulam from Visakhapatnam.

His car was hit by a truck.He was one of the politburomembers of the party.

TDP general secretary andformer MP Lal Jan Basha,another key leader of the partydied on August 15, 2013 whilegoing from Hyderabad to hishometown Guntur.

His vehicle overturnednear Narkatpally in Nalgondadistrict and he died on the spot.

It was in the same districtthat another politburo of theTDP N Harikrishna died onAugust 29 last when his vehi-cle over turned after hittingdivider at a very high speed. He was on his way to attend awedding. He was son of partyfounder NT Rama Rao andbrother in law of ChiefMinister N ChandrababuNaidu.

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The keenly awaited Muslim-Dalit alliance of Hyderabad

based Majlis-e-IttehadulMuslimeen and Dalit leaderPrakash Ambedkar waslaunched with a bang ripples ofwhich were felt acrossMaharashtra. The joint massiverally of the MIM and BharepBahujan Vanchit Aghadi inAurangabad on Tuesdayevening was attended by anestimated half a million peoplefrom across the State.

The combine show ofstrength marked the comingtogether of the weaker sections,which were largely pushed tothe margins of the State politicsover the decades.

Addressing the rally MIMPresident and Member ofParliament from HyderabadAsaduddin Owaisi said, “This isan alliance of all the oppressedand suppressed sections of thesociety”. He gave a call to thesupporters of both the organi-sations to work tirelessly toensure that Prakash Ambedkarwas sent to Parliament in thenext elections. “Prakash sahab isour elder brother. He is thegrand son of the architect ofIndian constitution Dr Baba

Saheb Ambedkar who gaveequality and fraternity”, he said.

Giving entire credit of giv-ing right to liberty, equality andfraternity to each and every cit-izen of the country “We willhave to pay back the debt of DrAmbedkar by sending Prakashsahab to the Parliament”, hesaid. Owaisi vowed to work toget him elected to Parliamentthe same way as Muslims ofBengal had elected Dr BRAmbedkar to the constituentAssembly of India.

“Who gave us this consti-tution? Not the Sanghi organi-zation (RSS), not the NehruGandhi family. The constitu-tion was given to us by DrAmbedkar”, he said amid theslogans of “Jai Bheem Jaimeem” signifying the Dalit-Muslim alliance.

He recalled how the Dalitswere subjected to inhumantreatment and the practice ofuntouchability before the con-stitution came into effect.

“Who are the people whoare suffering the worst dis-crimination even today. Dalitsand Muslims have the same

problems and they will have towork together to solve them”, hesaid. He said that the alliancewill work to win at least five LokSabha seats from Maharashtrain the coming elections.

Prakash Ambedkar, whowas a popular Dalit leader inMaharashtra, said that the suc-cess of the Alliance woulddepend on how closely andharmoniously both theMuslims and Dalits worktogether on the ground. “It isfor you to strengthen it andmake it successful”, he said.

The rally was preceded bya daylong convention, whichwas attended by delegates fromseveral districts of Maharashtra.The leaders of Bahujan VanchitAghadi from districts said thatthe Dalit would have to dispelthe impression that any uppercaste party can buy the over byoffering them a little money ora liquor bottle.

The alliance and the rallymark major step forward for theMIM in Maharashtra where ithad won 2 assembly seats in 2015and has presence in several civicbodies of the State.

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In a major initiative to com-bat cyber crimes, Karnataka

Government has roped inInfosys foundation, the phil-anthropic arm of Infosys, onTuesday and signed aMemorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) withthe Karnataka CriminalInvestigation Department(CID) and Data SecurityCouncil of India (DSCI) forsetting up the Centre forCybercrime InvestigationTraining & Research (CCITR).As part of this MoU, theInfosys Foundation will sup-port the establishment of theCentre that will house theCCITR through a public-pri-vate-partnership model.

The CCITR aims to trainpolice, prosecution, judiciaryand other departments in han-dling technology investigationsand create standard operatingprocedures (SOPs) in cyber-crime investigations. The cen-ter will also be used to performresearch in digital forensicsand cybercrime investigationthat will improve the prosecu-tion of cybercrime cases inves-

tigated by the Karnataka Police.Infosys Foundation

Chairperson Sudha Murty saidCCITR is a project for the pre-sent and the future, aiming tobuild the state-of-the-art facil-ities to tackle cyber and foren-sic crimes in Karnataka.

"Once operational, it willbe a proud milestone for CIDand DSCI to curb misuse andunethical use of technology tocreate distress and uneasi-ness for fellow beings, "shesaid. “The CCITR is a projectfor the present and the future;aiming to build state of the artfacilities to tackle cyber andforensic crimes in Karnataka.Infosys Foundation is proudto contribute to this project.Once operational, it will be aproud milestone for the CIDand the DSCI to curb misuseand unethical use of technol-ogy to create distress anduneasiness for fellow beings,she added.”

Under the MoU, theInfosys Foundation will sup-port the setup cost and associ-ated facility management andoperational costs, includingmaintenance of equipment andtheir fittings, the capital

investment for hardware, soft-ware and working capitalrequirements for conductingtraining programs, conferencesand digital forensic analysis,Technological infrastructureby providing specialized toolsand incurring relevant licens-ing costs, Upgradation of theexisting cyber lab for a periodof five years.

“Cyberspace has turnedout to be the world’s largestungoverned space demolishingall geographical boundaries.Crimes using cyberspace willbe the biggest organised crimein the times to come. Lawenforcement agencies need toproactively get equipped interms of hardware, softwareand expertise to face this chal-

lenge", said Praveen Sood,Director General of Police,CID, Karnataka.

“DSCI continues its com-mitment to build the capacityof law enforcement in handlingcybercrimes through our CyberForensics initiative. TheCybercrime investigation man-uals developed by DSCI are act-ing as reference material for thepolice, prosecution and judi-ciary in handling cybercrimes.DSCI is pleased to partnerwith Infosys Foundation inscaling up the capacity build-ing efforts and setting up theCentre for CybercrimeInvestigation Training andResearch at CID Headquarterswhich would enhance theinvestigation capabilities ofKarnataka State Police,” saidRama Vedashree, CEO, DataSecurity Council of India.

Deputy Chief Minister andHome minister GParameshwara, stressed theneed for such a lab to detectcrimes in an effective andquick manner. The requiredtraining for the personnelwould be ensured by invitingcyber experts from other coun-tries, he said.

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The JD(U) has stepped uporganising its caste orient-

ed meetings and conferencesahead of general election. Theparty in power for about 14years in alliance with the BJPhas once again started makingall out efforts to win over thesupport of Dalits and EBCs. Inthis series the party held a Dalit& Mahadalit Sammelan hereon Wednesday. Earlier a meet-ing of Kushwaha society hadalso been organised.

Chief Minister NitishKumar addressing the wellattended Sammelan declaredthat no power on earth couldsnatch the reservation benefitenshrined in the Constitutionwhich was authored by B RAmbedkar. “There are a lot ofrumour mongering that thereservation benefit would betaken off but this is only a falsepropaganda by vested interest-who have nothing to do andonly to creae confusion,” hesaid without elaborating.

The reservation policy, theCM added, was to help the mar-ginalised sections and to bringthem in mainstream and thispolicy could not be amended ordiluted. “The country cannotprosper with the prosperity ofa handful of people,” he said.

Nitish said when he came topower in 2005 the budget for thescheduled cases was only �12.5crore which has jumped to

�1,224 crore in 2018-19. The 12.5per cent out of school children,mostly dalits, have been broughtto schools, several hundred newschools opened and over a lakhteachers appointed for the edu-cational push to dalit children.

“The neglected andoppressed class will not remainso,” declared Nitish and askedthe society to remain united andmaintain communal harmonyat every cost for the largerinterest of the society and thenation and development. Healso claimed that the total pro-hibition enforced by hisGovernment was bearing pos-itive results in the society par-ticularly the dalits and mahadal-its where boozing was part oftheir culture and civilisation andthe men were dying at lesser age.

“Do you know why noman with grey hairs in

Musahar community isfound?” asked former MLAArun Manjhi. And heanswered, because of death inthis community at earlier stagedue to boozing habit.

Earlier Sammelan convenorand JD(U) national secretaryShyam Rajak highlighted theworks done by Nitish for the dalitsociety. He said he gave a senseof honour and dignity to the classby elevating their social status.The CM, Rajak said, has madea practice to invite the senior dalitvillager to hoist flag onIndependence and RepublicDays very year in a remote vil-lage. This was the second dalitconference, the first being at Barha couple of days back, and thebrain behind the organisation isJD(U) top leader RCP Singh whohas planned to hold such con-ferences across the State.

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Seven Myanmar national whohad been in a detention

camp for over last five yearswould be deported to the neigh-bouring country on Thursday.

Aditional Director Generalof Police (Border) Bhaskar JyotiMahanta said this today whileadding that all the sevenMyanmarese nationals would bedeported through the MorehInternational border in Manipur.

“They were lodged inSilchar detention camp. Wehave sent them to Moreh todayafter their travel documentshave arrived. They would bedeported tomorrow morningin presence of officials of boththe countries,” said Mahanta.

It may be mentioned herethat several foreign nationalsincluding Bangladeshi,Myanmerese and Paksitanisare languishing in differentjails and detention camps inAssam. They were arrestedfrom different places at vari-ous times for entering thecountry without valid docu-ments and overstaying.

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Ahead of the Lok Sabhapolls, the ruling BJP has

chalked out a plan to replicate'Gujarat Model' to strength-en organisational structure ofthe saf f ron br igade inMamata Banerjee’s bastionWest Bengal by sendingsenior Gujarat BJP leaders totrain local party workers ofthe eastern State.

Sources in the state BJPunit said that already 20‘Vistaraks’ have been trained atGujarat BJP’s headquarters‘Shri Kamalam’ recently.

Now senior BJP leadershandpicked by BJP presidentAmit Shah would camp atKolkata and other cities toimpart micro management sys-tem of campaigning duringthe elections.

“The training sessions forBengal BJP leaders and work-ers would be part of the party’slong term plan and not limit-ed to upcoming Lok Sabhapolls. BJP is making its basebroad in the state and theparty is also eying to win 2021assembly polls there,” said asenior BJP leader.

Amit Thaker, senior BJPleader and former nationalpresident of BJP Yuva Morcha,the youth wing of the saffronparty has been appointed as the

coordinator in West Bengal. Immediate past president

of Gujarat BJP Yuva MorchaPradipsinh Vaghela andanother leader Prithviraj Patelhave been also appointed asAssistant Coordinators, whowould work along with someother Gujarat BJP leaders inBengal under the leadershipof Thaker.

The first batch of BJPworkers from Bengal, whotook training in Gujarat alsotravelled various districts ofGujarat and attended meetingsof different committees andmorchas.

They also studied respon-sibilities given to page-presi-dents during elections. Theywere given knowledge ofGujarat BJP’s operations rightfrom booth level.

They were given chanceto meet top brass of BJPincluding state president JituVaghani, secretary organisa-t ion Bhikhu Dalasania and others.

Meanwhile, Gujarat BJPworkers from Saurashtra regionand northern parts of the Stateto support their counterparts inpoll bound Rajasthan. Trainedparty workers from centraland south Gujarat would visitMadhya Pradesh where assem-bly polls would be held duringthe current year.

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The Kerala Government hastold fishermen not to ventureinto the sea after October 5fol lowing warning of acyclone by IndiaMeterological Department,Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan said on Wednesday.

The Government is mak-ing arrangements to informpeople in the coastal areas ofthe state, he said.

"The IMD has sounded ared alert in Idukki, Palakkadand Thrissur districts, as veryheavy rains have been pre-dicted on October 7, whileseveral parts of the State arelikely to get heavy rains onOctober 5," the Chief Ministertold media here.

District authorities havebeen asked to be ready for any

eventuality as landslides canbe expected, said Vijayan.

"In view of the forecast, it'sbetter to avoid travel at night,especially in the hilly areas.Starting Friday, travel towardsMunnar should be avoided untilfurther orders. Also, those livingalong the banks of lakes andrivers should not go out for fish-ing," said Vijayan.

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The Bharatiya JanataParty's ally Indigenous People'sFront of Tripura (IPFT)secured nine seats in GramPanchayats, Tripura StateElection Commission (TSEC)officials said.The opposition CommunistParty of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Congress won fourseats each. The BJP also won five PanchayatSamiti seats while the CPI-Mmanaged only two seats. The by-elections to 3,386 seats — 3,207Gram Panchayat seats, 161Panchayat Samiti seats and 18Zilla Parishad seats — werescheduled for September 30,but polling was held in only 130Gram Panchayat and sevenPanchayat Samiti seats in 11blocks as over 96 per cent of theseats were won by the BJP can-didates unopposed.

These seats fell vacant fol-lowing large-scale resignationsof elected representatives of theLeft and other parties after theBJP-led coalition came topower in Tripura in March.

Some of the three-tierPanchayat seats were lying vacantalso due to the death of the elect-ed representatives. Almost allparties, including the BJP's juniorpartner IPFT, had been demand-ing rescheduling of theSeptember 30 Panchayat elec-tions to ensure the participationof all parties following large-scaleviolence during electioneering.

The Opposition CPI-M-led Left Front, the Congressand the IPFT, a tribal-basedparty, had separately urged theState EC to reschedule theelection process as they claimedthat "massive violence pre-vented their nominees from fil-ing papers. IANS

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Soon after the BahujanSamaj Party dumped the

Congress and announced tocontest the Madhya Pradeshand Rajasthan assembly pollsalone, Samajwadi Party chiefAkhilesh Yadav gave a pep talkto the Congress, asking it to belarge hearted and inclusivefor carrying along all like-minded parties.

“Congress was delayingthe issue of alliance for assem-bly polls in MP, Rajasthan andChhattisgarh with like-mindedparties. This was creating con-fusion among smaller parties.It is the duty of the Congress toact as an elder brother in thealliance but they seem to haveother priorities,” AkhileshYadav said in a statement issuedin Lucknow on Wednesday.

The SP president said thatdue to the delay in theannouncement of alliance,other parties were announcingtheir candidates.

The SP chief defended theBSP saying, “A deliberate lie isbeing spread that the BSP chiefis under pressure from CentralGovernment or Central inves-tigation agencies. At the sametime, I must say that theCongress too is a good politi-cal outfit.”

Akhilesh Yadav has beenvisiting MP frequently andaddressing public meetingsthere, and has asked the party’sstate leadership to select can-didates for the assembly polls.

Meanwhile, Akhilesh

slammed the Bharatiya JanataParty Governments at theCentre and in Uttar Pradesh forignoring the plight of farmers.

“When farmers raise theirvoice for genuine demands,they are ‘honoured’ with lath-is by the BJP Government,” hecommented.

Reacting to the recent sui-cide by officers in the BJP rulein UP, the SP chief said that

Lalitpur sub-divisional magis-trate shot himself as he wasunder immense pressure.

“Governance in UP hasslipped from bad to worse. Thesituation is such that now ifanyone travelling in a car doesnot stop, then he/she may beshot,” Akhilesh said, referringto the murder of Apple execu-tive Vivek Tiwari by two con-stables in Lucknow.

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Lucknow: Following in thefootsteps of Bahujan SamajParty, Samajwadi Party has alsoset terms for an alliance withCongress in Uttar Pradesh forthe 2019 Lok Sabha election.

The SP has conveyed to theCongress that any electoralalliance will be meaningfulonly if it is for three poll-boundStates and Uttar Pradesh. ThreeStates, Rajasthan, MadhyaPradesh and Chhattisgarh willgo to polls in November.

A senior SP leader saidthat the party cadre wantedseats from the Congress inpoll-bound Rajasthan, MadhyaPradesh and Chhattisgarh inexchange for a pact in UP,where the SP already has analliance with the BahujanSamaj Party.

“After fighting against eachother in these States, an

alliance only for UP will lookabsurd,” SP general secretaryKiranmoy Nanda said.

The SP wants to spread itswings in the three Hindi-speaking States of MadhyaPradesh, Rajasthan andChhattisgarh where assemblyelections are due next month.

Akhilesh has touredMadhya Pradesh several timesin the last couple of months,including a recent one toShahdole district of MP.Earlier, the BSP, too, demand-ed a pan-India pact with theCongress as the two sideswere negotiating alliance inpoll-bound States.

BSP chief Mayawati even-tually picked Ajit Jogi’s JanataCongress over the Congress inChhattisgarh, and announcedcandidates for 22 seats inMadhya Pradesh. PNS

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The loan scam-hit Bank ofMaharashtra (BoM) has

announced a closure of 51branches across the country aspart of a cost-cutting measure.

The BoM, which was in thenews for the wrong reasons inJune this year after its CMDRavindra Marathe, his prede-cessor Sushil Muhnot and fourothers in connection with the�2,043 crore DSK group scamcase, has begun to tighten itsbelt fiscally.

Through an advertisementpublished in a Marathi news-paper on Monday, the Pune-headquartered BoM stated thatit had either closed or merged51 branches across the countryand by December 31,2018, itwould annul the IFSC andMICR codes of these branches.

According to informedsources in the bank, all the 51branches are in urban centresand have been identified forthe action as they weredeclared unviable and incur-ring huge losses.

While the BoM is in theprocess of cancelling IFSC andMICR codes of these all theSavings, Current and otherbank accounts have been trans-ferred to the branches withwhich these have been merged.

The BoM has, meanwhile,directed all customers todeposit their cheque-booksissued from the closed branch-es with the old IFSC/MICRCodes by Nov. 30, and collecttheir payment instruments

bearing the new branch’sIFCS/MICR Codes.

Simultaneously, the BoMcautioned that since the oldIFSC/MICR Codes have beenspiked and shall be discontin-ued permanently from Dec. 31this year, henceforth customersshould conduct all their bank-ing transactions only with thenew IFSC/MICR Codes.

It may be recalled that ninedays after they were arrested inconnection with the �2,043crore DSK group scam, theBoM had on June 29 this yeardivested its Managing Directorand CEO Ravindra P. Maratheand its Executive Director R KGupta “of all the functionalresponsibilities of the bankwith immediate effect”.

Simultaneously the BoMentrusted A C Raut, ExecutiveDirector of the Bank with allthe functional responsibilitiesas the Managing Director andCEO and other ExecutiveDirector of the bank.

The reshuffle in the upperechelons of the BoM had comeafter the Economic OffencesWing (EOW) of the Pune policehad on June 20 arrestedMarathe, Gupta, BoM’s formerManaging Director and CEOSushil Muhnot and three othersin connection with the �2,043crore DSK group scam case.

The bank executives andofficials have been chargedwith advancing huge sums ofloans to the fraud-accuseddeveloper Kulkarni and hiscompanies in alleged violationof banking norms.

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Rajasthan Atomic Power Station(RAPS-3) on Wednesday set anew record of continuous oper-ation of 766 days, by surpassingthe earlier record of 765 days setby the Unit-5 of RAPS-5 in 2014.

Another NPCIL reactor —the 220 mw Unit -1 of KaigaGenerating Systems (KGS-1)— has been operating continu-ously for 873 days. “Our reac-tors reactors have demonstrat-ed continuous operation ofmore than a year 28 years so far,”a NPCIL spokesperson said.

“The consistent, safe andreliable of reactors for longperiod s bears testimony to thematurity achieved in nuclearpower technology,” thespokesperson said.

According to thespokesperson, the experts in theOperation Safety Review Team(OSART) of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA),following the peer review ofRAPS 3 and 4had stated: “OpenCommunication, enthusiasm,motivation and sense of own-ership were observed at all lev-els during the OSART Mission.These attributes have cultivatedan environment of safety cultureat RAPS 3 & 4”. Currently,NPCIL has 22 nuclear reactorswith a capacity of 6780 MW inoperation and eight reactorswith a capacity of 6,200 MW areunder construction. “Work hasbeen initiated on 12 reactorswith total capacity of 9,000MW—for which administra-tive approval and financial sanc-tion have been accorded by theGovernment," the spokesmanadded. TN RAGHUNATHA

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Considering the “gravity” ofthe Nagerbazar explosion

that on Tuesday rocked a con-gested residential area of SouthDum Dum Municipality innorthern suburbs of Kolkatakilling a child dead and leavingat least 10 people battling fortheir lives the State HomeDepartment on Wednesdayentrusted the CriminalInvestigation Department toinvestigate into the matter.

The CID sources said a suomotu case had already beenregistered against unknownpersons for causing death anddestruction.

“We are looking into allpossible angles,” a CID officialsaid refusing to dwell on whoprompted the ground zero tobe cleaned up even before theprobe team could arrive at thespot. “We have been asked to

conduct the investigation andthe Department will leave nostone unturned to unearththe reason behind the blast,”the officer said remainingnoncommittal about discoveryof any clue.

A local 7-year-old boy diedon Tuesday morning when a 4-kg socket bomb resembling adirectional mine explodedseverely injuring about 10 peo-ple. "It was a socket bombexplosion,' officials said adding“a socket bomb is an impro-vised explosive device whichmay have exploded due topressure.”

“It is not only about theboy who died yesterday.About 5 more people are in avery very serious conditionwith some of them gettingtheir abdomen blown off lit-erally,” a senior doctor saidfrom RG Kar medical CollegeHospital said.

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Kolkata: Fires do not seem toleave Kolkata. About 400patients admitted in Asia’s old-est Calcutta medical Collegeand Hospital had a providen-tial escape when the cardiolo-gy and intensive care units ofthe hospital caught fire onWednesday morning.

The fire that broke out inthe pharmacy nearly consumedthe patients but for the instantmeasures taken by the staff,doctors and the patients’ rela-tives who carried out the res-cue work literally carrying ITUpatients rapped in bed sheets orsimply by hand.

“We could not see any firebut smoke billowed out asphyx-iating the patients about 400 innumber and it took great effortto bring them out in a matterof minutes,” a security staff saidadding the fire brigade brokeopen a side wall and allowedthe smoke to billow out.

Apart from the firefightersand the police, West Bengal’sdisaster management authori-ty officials have also reachedthe medical college.

There was chaos and panicafter the fire broke out. Manypatients had to be taken out ofthe building in stretchers andeven bed sheets with theirsaline drips. A large number ofpatients were shifted to neigh-boring medical colleges includ-ing RG Kar and NRS MedicalCollege and Hospital.

Sources said one patientdied of asphyxiation though thehospital staff would not providethe reason of the death.

This is the second fire in afortnight the first one destroy-ing the 150-year-old Bagri mar-ket, Asia’s one of the largestwhole-sale facilities. A few yearsago a similar fire at Kolkata’sAMRI Hospital choked to deathabout 90 patients. PNS

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As the campaign in the ongo-ing Municipal polls in

Jammu & Kashmir is reachingits crescendo, the commonissues of 'aam admi' hoveringaround 'bijli', 'sadak' and 'pani'have taken a back seat while slugfest between Congress and BJPand other issues of national pol-itics have taken centre stage.

Almost all the parties in thefray barring independent can-

didates are resorting to rakingup emotive issues to pin downtheir nearest rivals.

Instead of debating theirown report card before theelectorate the State BJP leader-ship is still relying on thecharisma of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to bail themout. On the other hand theopposition parties includingthe Congress and Panthersparty are cornering the BJP overignoring the plight of people

belonging to Jammu regionand its poor performance in theState Government.

To defeat Congress at anycost in the municipal polls theBJP has gone to the extent oftelling the voters in municipalwards, "every single vote insupport of the Congress partywill be a vote in favour ofPakistan, and terrorist outfitslike Lashkar-e- Toiba and Jaish-e- Mohammad".

Every where State BJP

Chief Ravinder Raina isaddressing election meetings insupport of party candidates heis raking up the issue of con-gress party's stand on terrorism.

Addressing series of meet-ing in Jammu west RavinderRaina told voters, "when con-gress party leaders issue a state-ment cadre of Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hizbul Mujahideen,Jaish-e- Mohammad, Taliban,and Hurriyat acknowledge itwith loud clapping".

In these election meetingsRaina is frequently posing adirect question before the elec-torate" how can you support aparty which is busy abusingjawans of the Indian army"?

Insiders in the party claimthat the State BJP Chief hasadopted this approach in thefinal leg of the campaigning."They have realised now thatthe Congress party candidatesand party rebel candidates arethrowing tough challenge tothe BJP candidates on groundzero that is why they have start-ed raising national issues ofpolitics at the level of munici-pal polls to defeat them".

More than 40 rebel BJPcandidates in the fray arereceiving good response fromthe masses as they remained indirect contact unless para-chuted party workers and thosewho chose back door entry tojoin the fray at the last minute.

Cornered by angry voterson ground zero BJP is also rais-ing the issue of settlement ofRohingyas and over 1 lakhBangladeshi nationals inJammu.

Karan Sat Sharma, BJYMleader and son of former StateBJP Chief Sat Sharma in hiscampaign meetings exposingthe role of the Congress andNational conference in allow-ing Rohingyas to settle downin Jammu.

He told voters, "between2008 and 2014 both NationalConference and Congress facil-itated illegal settlement of onelakh Bangladeshi's in Jammu.

He said if you people willrepeat the same mistake these1 lakh Bangladeshi's will mul-tiply in to 5 lakh and in next 10years local people from Jammuwould be forced to run awayfrom Jammu to settle at anyother place. He cautioned vot-

ers to remain vigilant and notto treat these elections as rou-tine elections. He said theseillegal immigrants were allowedto encroach upon State/forestland on the outskirts of Jammuand these parties remainedmum and mute spectator.

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