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Lucknow: Union Home
Minister Amit Shah on
Tuesday released the
‘Lok Kalyan Sankalp
Patra 2022’, the BJP’s
election manifesto in
UP, just two days before
the first phase of poll-
ing. The party has
promised free electrici-
ty for irrigation, a job
for every household,
and a minimum 10-year
sentence in cases of
“love jihad”.
It also announced
that work on the estab-
lishment of an anti-
terrorist commando
centre in Deoband
would be completed in
the next five years. Sim-
ilar centres would come
up in Meerut, Rampur,
Azamgarh, Kanpur and
Bahraich.
The manifesto prom-
ised that the drive
against criminals and
mafias would continue.
Also, a cyber helpdesk
would be set up in every
police station and sepa-
rate barracks would be
built for male and fe-
male police personnel.
In the health sector,
the BJP promised to
build one government
hospital in every dis-
trict and announced
that Uttar Pradesh
would be made tubercu-
losis-free by 2025.
Afreescootywouldbe
provided to meritorious
girl students under Rani
LaxmibaiYojana.Under
the Swami Vivekanand
Yuva Shashaktikaran
Yojana,twocroretablets
andsmartphoneswillbe
distributed.
The BJP promised to
complete the General
Bipin Rawat Defence
Industrial Corridor
in Bundelkhand in a
record time.
Two LPG cylinders
would be provided free
of cost to every benefi-
ciary of PM Ujjwala Yo-
jna during Holi and Di-
wali festivals, while
mission pink toilet
would be launched at Rs
1,000 crore to build toi-
lets for women in public
places.
For youths, the saf-
fron party promised
over 3 crore jobs or self-
employment opportuni-
ties. It said that at least
one job or self-employ-
ment opportunity
would be provided to
every household.
‘Maa Annapurna
canteens’ would be es-
tablished across the
state to provide food to
the poor at a subsidised
rate. A Ramayan Uni-
versity in Ayodhya will
be set up for research
on subjects related to
Lord Ram and other re-
ligious matters. —PTI
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, CM Yogi Adityanath and BJP UP
chief Swatantra Dev Singh releasing the manifesto in Lucknow.
BJP’s manifesto for UP offers many carrots, and some sticks
‘LOK KALYAN SANKALP PATRA’
10-year jail for ‘love jihad’, job for every
household, free electricity for irrigation,
Ramayana University in Ayodhya
Fake‘Samajwadis’ occupied
lands of Dalits: PM Modi
New Delhi: Attacking
the Samajwadi Party
once again, Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi on
Tuesday said that the
people of UP have been
betrayed by ‘fake so-
cialists’ who occupied
the land of Dalits and
gave tickets to those
who insulted Babasa-
heb Ambedkar.
Addressing voters in
Rampur, Badaun, and
Sambhal virtually
through the Jan
Choupal progamme, the
PM said, “The fake Sa-
majwadi (socialists)
who occupied the lands
of Dalits are remember-
ing Babasaheb Ambed-
kar for votes today
.
These people are giving
tickets to the land mafia.
These people are giving
tickets to those who in-
sulted Babasaheb. Uttar
Pradesh has seen cheat-
inginthenameof prom-
ises in many years be-
fore 2017. Those who
question about electric-
ity today, when they
were in power then elec-
tric wires were used to
dry clothes.” —ANI
‘LAND MAFIA RESTLESS
BECAUSE OF BULLDOZER’
The Prime Minister talked
tough against criminals,
sayying, “The land mafia
is restless because of Yogi
ji’s bulldozer. The people
of Rampur have also been
a witness to this restless-
ness. As long as there is a
Yogi govt, these mafias can
never harass the people
of Uttar Pradesh. The BJP
govt is a shield of protec-
tion to the poor, downtrod-
den, and backward against
criminals and mafia.”
33% women in govt
jobs: SP manifesto
Lucknow: The Sama-
jwadi Party on Tues-
day released its poll
manifesto, promising
an ‘Urban Employ-
ment Guarantee Act’
on the lines of MN-
REGA, and 33 per cent
reservation for wom-
eningovtjobs,besides
a slew of benefits to
farmers.
The party released
its manifesto — Sama-
jwadi Vachan Patra
— shortly after the
BJP released its own.
The manifesto prom-
isedtoprovideregular
govt jobs to ‘Shiksha
Mitras’ within three
years and Minimum
Support Price to all
crops. SP chief Akh-
ilesh Yadav reiterated
his earlier promise of
300 units of free elec-
tricity of restoring
theoldpensionscheme
of govt employees.
PM Modi virtually addresses
rally for the people of UP, in
New Delhi on Tuesday.
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RAJYA SABHA PROCEEDINGS
KARNATAKA HIJAB ROW
All schools, colleges
shut for three days
Expert view be
taken on vax
for kids below
15 years: Min
New Delhi: With reo-
pening of schools rais-
ing concern over the
safety of children below
15 years of age, Health
Minister Mansukh
Mandaviya said in RS
that government will
take a decision to vac-
cinate this group based
on suggestions of an
expert group. Govt has
constituted an expert
group to give sugges-
tions on which age
group to be given COV-
ID-19 vaccine first ac-
cordingly jab for kids
aged 15-18 years is un-
derway, he said during
Question Hour. —ANI
South Korean FM conveys
regret to EAM Jaishankar
Bengaluru: CM Basa-
varaj Bommai ordered
closure of all high
schools and colleges in
Karnataka for the next
three days in an attempt
to prevent further esca-
lation of the row over
students wearing hijab
and saffron shawls in
classrooms.
The CM, who is in
New Delhi to meet vari-
ous Union ministers,
issued the order from
there following reports
of confrontations and
violence from a few col-
lege campuses on Feb-
ruary 8. There was
stone-pelting in one col-
lege and caning by po-
lice in another.
“I appeal to all stu-
dents, teachers and
managements of
schools and colleges, as
well as people of Karna-
taka, to maintain peace
and harmony,” the CM
tweeted. —ANI
New Delhi: South Ko-
rea’s Foreign Minister
Chung Eui-yong on
Tuesday called up Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister
Jaishankar to ‘regret’
the offence caused to
people of India by a so-
cial media post on
Kashmir by Hyundai
Pakistan.
MEA spokesperson,
Arindam Bagchi, said
the Chung “conveyed
that they regretted the
offence caused to the
people and GoI by the
social media post”. The
Ambassador of South
Korea was summoned
by the Ministry of Ex-
ternal Affairs on Tues-
day. “Strong displeas-
ure of the Government
on the unacceptable so-
cial media post by
Hyundai Pakistan was
conveyed to him. It was
highlighted that this
matter concerned In-
dia’s territorial integ-
rity on which there
could be no compro-
mise,” said Bagchi.
—PTI
New Delhi: From dy-
nastic politics to curbs
on freedom of expres-
sion, PM Narendra
Modi on Tuesday tore
into the Congress and
said that Congress’s
thinking has been hi-
jacked by ‘urban Nax-
als’. “Congress accused
us of trying to change
history. Congress’s
thinking has been now
been hijacked by ‘urban
Naxals’,” he said.
He said that if there
was no Congress, there
would be no Emergency
,
no caste politics, Sikhs
would never have been
massacred and Kash-
miri Pandits would not
have happened. ‘Con-
gress na hoti, toh kya
hota’. It’s a result of
thinking, ‘India is Indi-
ra, Indira is India.’ I
think ‘Congress na hoti,
toh kya hota’ because
Mahatma Gandhi want-
ed. He knew what will
happen if they continue
to be and he wanted to
disband them before-
hand,” said in his reply
to the debate on the mo-
tion of thanks to the
President’s address in
Rajya Sabha. —ANI
AHMEDABAD SERIAL
BOMB BLAST CASE
Gujarat Court
convicts 49 accused,
acquits 28 others
Gandhinagar: A Guja-
rat court on Tuesday
convicted 49 accused
acquitted 28 others in
the 2008 Ahmedabad se-
rial bomb blast case.
Justice AR Patel will
pronounce quantum of
punishment today. All
convicts will be brought
in court when the quan-
tum of punishment is
pronounced by the
Judge. Within a span of
70 minutes as many as
21 bomb blasts had tak-
en place in Ahmedabad
on July 26, 2008. The ter-
ror attack had led to the
death of 56 people who
were killed at various
places in the city due to
the bomb blasts and
over 200 people were
also injured. The Islam-
ic militant group, Har-
kat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami,
had claimed responsi-
bility for the attacks.
—ANI
Govt prosecutor Amit Patel Inspector PG Vaghela
‘NEHRU WAS
WORRIED MORE
ABOUT HIS IMAGE’
CONG WALKS OUT OF RS AS PM LAUNCHES
SHARP ATTACK ON PARTY’S RULE IN THE PAST
PM MODI’s SCATHING
ATTACK ON CONGRESS
‘LATA DIDI’s FAMILY
WASN’T SPARED’
Launching a scathing
attack on Jawaharlal Nehru,
PM Modi said Goa had
to remain under imperial
rule for years so that the
former PM could maintain
his image at international
level. “The media reports
from back then will tell you
that the then PM (Jawahar
Lal Nehru) was concerned
about his international
image. That is why he
thought that if Goa’s foreign
government was attacked,
his image of a peace-loving
global leader would have
been harmed. So he let Goa
suffer,” the PM said. —ANI
Cong members in RS walked out of Upper House while Modi
was speaking. In a sharp dig at Congress, PM accused it
of becoming “leader of tukde-tukde gang” by following the
Britishers’ policy of ‘divide rule.’ “They are now objecting to
‘nation’. If idea of ‘nation’ is unconstitutional, then why is your
party called Indian National Congress,” PM Modi stated.
After stating how Congress
had doubted country’s abil-
ity to deliver on vax for all,
welfare measures for poor
by his govt etc, Modi said in
a direct attack on Congress
how one can never learn
lessons in a democracy
from ‘those who trampled
over democracy in 1975.”
“Nation is sad due to Lata
Mangeshkar’s death. Her
family is from Goa, all should
know how they were treated.
Her younger brother, Hri-
daynath, was removed from
AIR. His crime? He presented
a poem by Veer Savarkar.
This was Cong’s freedom of
expression,” the PM said.
As many as 21 bomb blasts had taken
place in Ahmedabad on July 26, 2008
HYUNDAI ROW
PM MODI’s TAKE...
CONGMEN SPEAK
“When family is supreme in party, then
first casualty is talent.”
“Some Members asked if there was no
Congress, what would happen...I would
like to say, if there was no Congress there
would be no Emergency, there would
be no caste politics, Sikhs would never
have been massacred, the problems
of Kashmiri Pandits would not have
happened?
“There are people who think that India
was born in 1947.”
“We do not see any conflicts between
national progress and regional
aspirations. India’s progress will be
stronger when it addresses regional
aspirations keeping in mind the
development of the country. When our
states progress, the country progresses.”
“If Congress would not have been there,
Rajya Sabha would’ve remained the
council of states under Govt of India
Act of 1919 where instead of ordinary
citizens, princes rulers would have
been sitting there singing the praises of
Queen Elizabeth II”
—P Chidambaram, Congress leader
“PM Modi’s ‘divide and rule’ comment
applies only to him”—Mallikarjun Kharge
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BJP PROMISES TO...
RAISE CULTURAL CONCIOUSNESS IN UP
The manifesto mentions developing multiple destinations, which in turn will help
boost the tourism industry of the state and re-establish religious, spiritual connect
First India Bureau
Saharanpur: The
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) on Tuesday re-
leased its manifesto or
‘Lok Kalyan Sankalp
Patra’ for the upcoming
UP assembly elections.
The manifesto, released
by Home minister Amit
Shah, CM Yogi and state
unit chief Swatantra
Dev Singh, is going to
give a major boost to
tourism with the re-
solve to invoke cultural,
religious and spiritual
consciousness.
“The ‘Lata Mangesh-
kar Performing Arts
Academy’ will not only
encourage artists asso-
ciated with folk dance,
music and theatre but
will also safeguard her
musical legacy
, “ It said.
The BJP has also re-
solved to establish a Ra-
mayana University in
Ayodhya.
Sankalp Patra, which
emphasizes the promo-
tion of cultural heri-
tage and tourism, can
help in re-establishing
UP’s tourism potential
globally
.
The manifesto also
pledged to build a Lok
Bhasha Academy in
Awadh, Braj, Purvan-
chal and Bundelkhand,
Film City, Lata
Mangeshkar Perform-
ing Arts Academy, and
establishment of a spe-
cial board for elderly
saints, and priests.
Furthermore, there
is mention of the estab-
lishment of a cultural
centre in memory of
Maharishi Valmiki in
Chitrakoot, Sant Ravi-
das in Kashi, Nishadraj
Guha in Shringverpur
and Dr Bhimrao
Ambedkar.
In addition, it has
been resolved to devel-
op Maharaja Bijli Pasi
Fort in Lucknow, a
grand monument in
memory of Maharaja
Suheldev in Bahraich,
Maharishi Valmiki
Ashram Sitamarhi as a
tourist destination.
Besides, establish-
ment of ‘Surdas Braj
Bhasha Academy’,
‘Goswami Tulsidas
Awadhi Academy’, ‘Ke-
shavdas Bundeli Acade-
my’, ‘Sant Kabir Das
Bhojpuri Academy’ in
Mathura to restore San-
skrit language, Braj,
Awadhi and Bundeli di-
alects and Bundeli liter-
ature.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna, Union Minister Anurag Thakur, UP BJP Chief Swatantra Dev Singh, Home Minister Amit
Shah, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma display the BJP Sankalp Patra during its
launch on Tuesday.
BJP ANNOUNCES LATA MANGESHKAR PERFORMING ARTS
ACADEMY IN ITS SANKALP PATRA FOR 2022 ELECTIONS
New Delhi: In the honour of singing legend and
‘Bharat Ratna’ Lata Mangeshkar, the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) in its ‘Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra’ for the
upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections an-
nounced to establish ‘Lata Mangeshkar Performing
Arts Academy’ which will carry forward her legacy and
will inspire generations.
SAFETY OF WOMEN A PRIORITY
Lucknow: An-
nouncementhasbeen
made to set up 3,000
Pink Police booths
along with installa-
tion of CCTV camer-
as near public places
and educational in-
stitutions in the state.
The BJP, in its
manifesto for the up-
coming assembly
elections has also an-
nounced the launch
of Avanti Bai Lodhi
Self Help Group Mis-
sion at a cost of 5
thousand crores in its
Sankalp Patra, under
which 5 lakh new
women self help
groups will be
formed.
It has been an-
nounced to provide
loans up to one lakh
at the lowest rate to
about one crore wom-
en working in self-
help groups through
self-reliant SHG cred-
it cards. Anganwadi
workers and
swasthya mitra will
be given health insur-
ance on mission
mode under Ayush-
man Bharat.
BJP workers dancing during nomination filing by BJP candidates in Prayagraj on Tuesday.
MORE FOR WOMEN
Double govt jobs
for women in UP
Lucknow: An an-
nouncement has
been made to double
the number of wom-
en in all government
jobs including those
selected through
Public Service Com-
mission (UPPSC) in
the state.It has also
been announced to
expand the network
of three new women
battalions.
Samuhik Vivah
Yojna gets better
New Delhi: The ruling
BJP in Uttar Pradesh,
in its Sankalp Patra
released on Tuesday
has promised financial
assistance of Rs 1
lakh for the marriage
of daughters of poor
families, loan up to
Rs 1 lakh to one crore
women has been
announced under the
Chief Minister’s sam-
uhik vivah yojana.
Secondary schools infrastructure to get a facelift
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The BJP has
resolved to change the
picture of secondary
education in the next
five years. Secondary
schools will also shine
like primary schools
and give a picture of
cleanliness, safety and
facilities.
The BJP, in its
Sankalp Patra, an-
nounced to launch Sec-
ondary School Renova-
tion Mission, under
which infrastructure of
30,000 secondary
schools will be re-
newed. Smart class
rooms and library will
be constructed with
audio-video projectors.
A computer lab, science
lab and art room will be
built. Wi-Fi will also be
arranged.
It will be ensured
that there is at least one
university in each divi-
sion. . The construction
of Raja Mahendra
Pratap Singh Universi-
ty in Aligarh, Maharaja
Suheldev University in
Azamgarh, Maa Sha-
kumbhari Devi Univer-
sity in Saharanpur, UP
Institute of Police and
Forensic Science in
Lucknow, AYUSH Edu-
cational Institute for
Ayurveda in Ayodhya,
Mahayogi Guru Gorak-
shanath AYUSH Uni-
versity in Gorakhpur,
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
National Law
University,Prayagraj
and Major Dhyan
Chand Sports Univer-
sity in Meerut will be
completed at the earli-
est, the Sankal Patra
said.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath —FILE PHOTO
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AIM: A BETTER EDUCATION SYSTEM
2 LAKH JOBS AT MEGA LEATHER PARK IN KANPUR
Kanpur: A mega
leather park will be
set up in Kanpur
which will create op-
portunities for 2 lakh
jobs and self-employ-
ment opportunities.
The state will be made
into a global textile
hub in which opportu-
nities will be created
for 5 lakh jobs and
self-employment op-
portunities.
For overall industrial
development of the
state and to provide
opportunities for em-
ployment and self-em-
ployment, the mani-
festo mentions com-
pleting the establish-
ment of six industrial
parks for micro, small
and medium enter-
prises (MSME), IT
parks at regional level,
and establishment of
Integrated Aqua Parks
at the district level to
promote fisheries pro-
duction and export.
TO EASE BIZ OPPORTUNITIES IN UP
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Sankalp
Patra of BJP released
on Tuesday ahead of UP
assembly polls, pledges
to make Uttar Pradesh
the Number One in
‘Ease of doing busi-
ness’, an investment of
Rs 10 lakh crores, dou-
bling the per capita in-
come on the strength of
a changed environment
and improved infra-
structure in the next
five years.
Under this vision, Atal
Industrial Infrastruc-
ture Mission will be
launched to strengthen
the infrastructure of all
industrial areas across
the state.
EXPORT OF ODOP PRODUCTS
Lucknow: Under this scheme, the opportunities
of exports and employment/self-employment
will be doubled in the next five years, in order to
further enhance the appeal of Brand UP in India
and abroad. Through this scheme, not only unique
products of every district gained global recogni-
tion, but opportunities of employment and self-
employment were created for about 25 lakh people
at the local level. This process of achieving dignity,
conservation and promotion of local talent and
craftsmanship will continue in years to come
INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS
Lucknow: Through these corridors, industries
related to handloom, food processing, storage
plants, chemicals, pharmaceutical and machin-
ery manufacturing industries will be encour-
aged. It is planned to create employment and
self-employment opportunities for 5 lakh young
people in these corridors.
First India Bureau
Moradabad: Launch-
ing an acerbic attack on
RLD leader Jayant
Choudhary, Chief Min-
ister Yogi Adityanath
said that the former
joined hands with the
same party about whom
his father Ajit Singh
had once commented
that ‘jis gaadi me sapa
ka jhanda, samjho
baitha koi kukhyat gun-
da’.
“In a desperate at-
tempt to regain lost po-
litical ground in UP,
Jayant is supporting
the SP who patronised
the goons and rioters,”
said UP CM. Without
taking names, he said
that Jayant displayed
his desperation in tak-
ing place of Azam
Khan, known for his di-
abolic persona.
Addressing a public
meeting at the Thak-
urdwara constituency
in Moradabad, Yogi Ad-
ityanath said, though in
a lighter vein, how the
hand pump of RLD
would get water as the
tubewell connections
were not provided to the
people by SP govern-
ment between 2012 and
2017.
Taking a pot shot at
the previous govern-
ment, Yogi Adityanath
alleged that riots, cur-
fews, and exodus of lo-
cals were order of the
day before BJP came to
power in Uttar Pradesh.
He accused the Sama-
jwadi Party of not pro-
viding security to girls
and women of the state
and said that the wom-
en were the insecure lot
during the Akhilesh re-
gime.
“The situation of the
state has completely
transformed in the last
five years. Not a single
riot has taken place in
the last five years while
700 riots took place
during SP government
in UP.”, the CM said.
Ajit Singh’s son is supporting SP ‘jhanda gunda’: CM
POLL-BOL
‘Riots, curfews, exodus of locals
were order of the day in SP rule’
CM Yogi Adityanath during an election rally in support of BJP
candidate from Thakurdwara seat, in Moradabad on Tuesday
Lucknow: The po-
litical games that peo-
ple play of family rule
and casteism would
be over on March 10,
the day results of the
Uttar Pradesh Assem-
bly elections are an-
nounced, Deputy
Chief Minister
Dinesh Sharma said
on Monday
.
Hitting out at the
Samajwadi Party,
Sharma said that
promises of opening
Samajwadi kitchens
and Samajwadi kira-
na stores are nothing
but a gimmick as the
people would not trust
the party as it has de-
prived the poor of ra-
tion.
Addressing an elec-
tion meeting in
Goverdhan town, he
advised the gathering
not to get lured by the
election promises
made by the SP.
The deputy CM said
that the Samajwadi
Party got 27 lakh
forms filled for a free
housing scheme but
not even 2,700 people
benefitted when its
government came to
power. —PTI
SP promises are a gimmick: Dy CM Sharma
Dy CM Dinesh Sharma goes
through the BJP manifesto.

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Lucknow: It’s MY vs
MY in Uttar Pradesh.
While the SP largely
banks on its Muslim-Ya-
dav support base, the
BJP is trying to counter
it with the Modi-Yogi
combo in the state As-
sembly polls.
Since days of Mu-
layam Singh Yadav, the
Samajwadi Party (SP)
has enjoyed a powerful
electoral support base
among Muslims and Ya-
davs, who constitute
around20percentand10
per cent population of
the state, respectively
.
His son Akhilesh Ya-
dav,whoissolelymanag-
ingthepollshowsforhis
party this time, inherit-
ed this advantage.
He, however, has
made an attempt to ex-
pand his base by giving
tickets to non-Yadav
OtherBackwardCastes.
Flocking of leaders
like OP Rajbhar, Swami
Prasad Maurya and
Dara Singh Chauhan
and the alliance with
the Rashtriya Lok Dal
(RLD) of Jayant Chaud-
hary has further given
a boost to his efforts to
dethrone the BJP.
Meanwhile, several
BJPleaderstoldPTIthat
setting the narrative
around Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and CM
Yogi Adityanath is help-
ing them offset the an-
ti-incumbency against
the state government.
In election speeches
of all BJP leaders, one
can find rich reference
to work done by the PM
for the country and Ad-
ityanath in UP
.
Publicity material of
the saffron party in the
politically crucial state
is largely themed
around the duo.
Even the PM praises
Adityanath for ending
the “mafia raj” of the
previous. Samajwadi
Partygovernmentledby
Akhilesh Yadav.
Yogi too never forgets
to highlight bold deci-
sions of the Modi gov-
ernment such as doing
away with the special
status of Jammu and
Kashmir and paving
wayfortheconstruction
of the Ram temple in
Ayodhya, in addition to
relief provided to the
poor during the corona-
virus pandemic.
The BJP’s poll narra-
tive surrounding Mo-
di-Yogi can be noticed
clearly when one talks
to their leaders and sup-
porters.
Amethi BJP leader
Rajesh Agrahi said, Mo-
di-Yogiisasuccesschant
among people.
Rahul Gandhi or Pri-
yanka Gandhi have no
takers like in the past
but the mention of the
work done by Modi and
Adityanath in the state
help them establish in-
stant rapport with peo-
ple during campaign-
ing, Agrahi said.
BJP’sAmethiandSul-
tanpur leaders Durgesh
Tripathi and R A Verma
echoed similar views.
Verma said some of
the anti-incumbency
faced by the BJP MLA
in Sultanpur has been
neutralised by the Mo-
di-Yogi factor. —PTI
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Samajwadi
Partychief AkhileshYa-
dav said on Tuesday af-
ter releasing the party
manifesto that on the
formation of SP govern-
ment, appointments will
bemadeonallthevacant
postsinthestate’seduca-
tion system within a
year and the short term
and contractual recruit-
ment system will be dis-
continued.
Reiterating his earlier
promise of 300 units of
free electricity
, Yadav
said on being voted to
power, his government
would ensure 24-hr pow-
er supply in entire UP
.
The old pension
scheme of government
employees too would be
restored after SP forms
its government in the
state, he added.
His government
would focus on English
education under the
state education policy
and education would be
provided in local lan-
guagestostrengthencul-
tural identity
, he said.
He also promised free
education to girls from
KG to masters level and
revive the Kanya Vidya
Dhan Yojana under
which girls will be given
Rs 36,000 after passing
Class 12.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee launched a
blistering attack on BJP
and CM Yogi over Covid
mismanagement in the
state.
“If Bengal can (beat
the BJP) So can Uttar
Pradesh. I have vast po-
litical and administra-
tiveexperience.Icansay
there is a one-on-one
fightinUPandAkhilesh
will win,” she said, ap-
pealing to the people not
to vote for those from
DelhiorHyderabad,who
will ‘disappear once the
elections are over.’
Addressing a media
briefing along with Sa-
majwadi Party chief
Akhilesh Yadav here,
replicating her party’s
popular ‘Khela Hobe’
campaign blitzkreig,
Banerjee threw a foot-
ball at the SP workers
amid loud cheers from
them. She urged people
to not waste their vote
on the BJP in the com-
ing UP elections. The
Trinamool Congress
leader alleged the UP
CM was busy campaign-
ing in Bengal when the
disastrous second wave
of coronavirus had hit
the country last year.
“So you had come to
Bengal to defeat us...
where were you when
people were dying of
Covid?” she said.
Speaking on the re-
ports of bodies floating
in the Ganga, Banerjee
asked whether the UP
government didn’t have
woods to cremate them.
“WerevereGangaMa.
Andhereyouthrewdead
bodies in Ganga. Many
dead bodies floated to
Bengal. We picked them
up and respectfully cre-
mated them. Did you not
havewoodtocrematethe
bodies?” she asked.
First India Bureau
Ghaziabad: Police
have arrested two mis-
creants from office of
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) MLA Nand
Kishore Gujjar who al-
leged that both were
planning to attack him.
Police sources here
said it was informed
from office of BJP MLA
that two mysterious per-
sons were seen in their
compound which could
be dangerous. Taking
swift actions police
nabbedbothaccusedand
interrogated them.
During investigation
it was revealed that
both were drug addict
and they were search-
ing for food near office.
Police said that any
weapon or dangerous
thing was not found
from their possession
and further investiga-
tions were underway
.
However, BJP MLA
Nand Kishore Gujjar
had tweeted in the
morning that terrorist
attack was planned in
his office and he was not
afraid of anti-national
forces. He said that he
will continue his fight
for Hindu and Hindutva
despite of any troubles.
Lucknow: The NIA ar-
rested an Al-Qaeda oper-
ative identified as Ta-
wheed Ahmad Shah of
Budgam (JK), for his
alleged involvement in a
conspiracy to carry out
an IED blast here, an of-
ficial said on Tuesday
.
The case was regis-
tered by Uttar Pradesh
Anti-Terrorism Squad
(ATS)inJulylastyearin
Gomtinagar police sta-
tion against the accused
who had entered into a
conspiracy for recruit-
ing members for the
global terrorist organi-
sation al-Qaeda’s affili-
ate Ansaar Gajwatul
Hind(AGH)andforcom-
mitting terrorist acts in
Lucknow, the NIA offi-
cial said.
Earlier, the National
Investigation Agency
(NIA) had arrested five
accused in the case
against whom a charge
sheet was filed last
month.
Tawheed was master-
mind of the conspiracy
for recruitment and to
commit terrorist acts in
thenameof AGH,includ-
ing procurement of
arms, ammunition and
explosive materials to be
usedforattacksinUPthe
NIA official said. —PTI
It’s MY vs MY as SP takes on Modi-Yogi camp with Muslim-Yadav plank
UP POLLS 2022
PM Narendra Modi with CM Yogi Adityanath at an election event. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav with Jayant Chaudhary of RLD.
HIGH SPIRITS
Priyanka Gandhi and Sachin Pilot campaign in support of party candidates in Meerut on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav along with former UP CS Alok Ranjan (L) and Kiranmoy Nanda
(R) West Bengal in-charge of SP release Samajwadi Vachan Patra (election manifesto) on Tuesday.
From English edu,to filling all vacant
posts, Akhilesh promises big
2 HELD ON
SUSPICION
AT BJP
LEADER'S
OFFICE
NIA arrests Budgam
manforblastconspiracy
CRUCIAL READ
LU SIGNS MOU FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
WITH NIGERIAN VARSITY
Lucknow: Alok Kumar Rai, V-C, LU signed an MoU
with Federal University Wukari Taraba State Nigeria.
The Nigerian delegation comprised CP Shinggu, Dy
V-C Admn, Judith Mgbemena, Dy Vice Academic, Em-
manuel Etim, Director, Int’l Progs, DO Ibirinde, Faculty
of Agriculture Life Sciences, EA Kamba, Faculty of
Pure Applied Sciences, Innocent Abbah Akor, Faculty
of Education, Engr. Abdulhakim A Shittu, Faculty of En-
gineering, Victor Lukpata, Faculty of Humanities, Mgmt
Social Sciences, Barr. Sampson A Namo etc.
PRIYANKA GANDHI
PERFORMS YAMUNA
PUJA AT MATHURA
Lucknow: Congress
general secretary Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday
performed a Yamuna puja
amid chanting of Vedic
mantras at Mathura’s
Vishram Ghat, on the
day the canvassing for
the first phase of the UP
assembly polls ended.
Priyanka campaigned for
her party in Meerut, Agra
and Mathura districts. She
rode a tractor in Meerut’s
Mawana while campaign-
ing for party candidate
Archana Gautam and took
selfies with women, ac-
cording to a statement.
If Bengal can do it, so can UP
says Mamata in support of SP
Slamming Yogi, the Bengal CM
said when people were dying, UP
CM was doing rallies in her state
KHELA HOBE:
SP PROMISES
URBAN JOB
GUARANTEE
Lucknow: The
Samajwadi Party on
Tuesday released
its poll manifesto,
promising an ‘Urban
Employment Guaran-
tee Act’ on the lines of
MNREGA and 33 per
cent reservation for
women in government
jobs, besides a slew
of benefits to farmers.
The party released its
manifesto — Sama-
jwadi Vachan Patra
— for the coming
assembly elections,
shortly after the BJP
released its own. The
SP manifesto also
promised to provide
regular government
jobs to ‘Shiksha
Mitras’ within three
years and provide em-
ployment to one crore
people in the MSME
sector.
Lucknow: SP president
Akhilesh Yadav said the
“manifesto is aimed at
taking Uttar Pradesh on the
path of prosperity, develop-
ment and progress in the
coming times”.”I remem-
ber that in the year 2012,
when the SP released its
election manifesto, it was
fully implemented. Many
things which were not
included in the manifesto
were also implemented by
the SP government,” he
said, stressing his party’s
commitment to working
on the promises made.
Citing the key promises
made for farmers, the
SP chief said, “Minimum
support price will be
provided to all crops and
payment to sugarcane
farmers will be ensured
within 15 days. For this,
farmers’ corpus fund will
be created if needed.” The
SP’s promises of freebies
also included two LPG
cylinders every year to
BPL families, one litre of
petrol to all two-wheeler
owners, and three litres
of petrol and six kg of
CNG per month to auto-
rickshaw drivers.
‘PARTY MANIFESTO AIMED AT TAKING STATE ON PATH OF PROSPERITY’
(Above) West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee
throws a ball at SP workers in
a friendly gesture at a party
event in Lucknow on Tuesday,
as Akhilesh Yadav looks on. (R)
Akhilesh’s wife Dimple Yadav
greeting Mamata Banerjee by
touching her feet.
SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav in
Lucknow on Tuesday.
—PHOTO BY PTI
—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR

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gainst the
backdrop of a
western diplo-
matic boycott
of the Beijing
Winter Olympics, China
and Russia have marked
the occasion by showing
off their increasingly
close relationship. Rus-
sia’s President Vladimir
Putin posed for pictures
with Chinese leader Xi
Jinping at the opening of
the 2022 Winter Games,
declaring their opposition
to further enlargement of
Nato and calling on the
western alliance to “aban-
don its ideologized cold
war approaches”.
In a joint statement, the
two leaders announced a
new era in relations that
would “know no limits”
and be “superior to politi-
cal and military alliances
of the cold war era”.
Meanwhile, they said
Nato must “respect the
sovereignty, security, and
interests of other coun-
tries … and to exercise a
fair and objective attitude
towards peaceful develop-
ment of other states”.
POLITICAL SIGNALS
Given these differences,
news of apparent security
cooperation between the
two should be taken with
a pinch of salt. While
there is growing collabo-
ration between Chinese
and Russian armed forc-
es, the primary function
of their military coopera-
tion consists in political
signaling, rather than in
preparing for joint mili-
tary action.
POSITIVELY NEUTRAL
Russia seems to have
moved from a position of
studied neutrality on Chi-
na’s policies in Asia-Pacif-
ic to outright condemna-
tion of trilateral security
initiative between Aus-
tralia, UK, US, “AUKUS”
– and Washington’s new
Indo-Pacific strategy in
general. The joint declara-
tion notes that 2 countries
are seriously concerned
by such developments.
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION
RUSSIA AND CHINA’S
GROWING ‘FRIENDSHIP’
IS MORE OF A PUBLIC
RELATIONS EXERCISE
In a joint statement,
the two leaders
announced a new era
in relations that would
“know no limits” and
be “superior to
political and military
alliances of the
cold war era”
A
Piyush Goyal @PiyushGoyal
PM @NarendraModi Ji’s address
in Rajya Sabha on President’s
address shows the progress
made under his leadership despite
Corona. In his words, there was
an urge to take everyone along for
the progress of the nation. The
opposition, which is losing its support base, should
introspect and learn from his speech.
Anurag Thakur @ianuragthakur
Our resolve…for service,
dedication, and all-around
development of UP BJP has
done it, only BJP will show it.
#BJP_Ka_Sankalp
TOP TWEETS
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
A person can rise through the efforts of his mind; or
draw himself down, in the same manner. Because
each person is his friend or enemy.
—Bhagavad Gita
However, all said and
done in the past, the
fight then was within the
parameters of courtesy.
Now, the disrespect is
going out of control.
History has it that the
battles in the past were
limited. The main issues
and heartburns were
generally the
appointments of the
vice-chancellors or about
the majority issues that
were sorted out too
he relationship between
state governments and
their respective Gover-
nors has been making
headlines every now and
then and currently, it is a
major concern as far as
West Bengal is concerned.
It is unfortunate that
subsequent state govern-
ments have been describ-
ing the “negative image”
of state Governors and
termingthemtobe“agents
of the Centre” has come to
the fore again.
Recently, West Bengal
Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar has raised sev-
eral issues where he has
contested the state govern-
ment’s decisions.
From the Howrah Cor-
poration Bill 2021 to the
appointment of Vice-
Chancellors in 24 state-
run universities, Gover-
nor Dhankar has objected
to the state government’s
functioning and decisions,
inviting criticism from
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee and the TMC.
Even as conflicts be-
tween Governors and state
governments are nothing
new and West Bengal has
had its shareof “unrest”in
this regard since 1967, this
time the matter has gone
beyond the corridors of
legislativedecorumandpo-
litical etiquette. The media
blackout of the Governor’s
speech in the Assembly or
writing to President Ram
Nath Kovind asking for the
removal of the governor
are some cases in hand.
On January 25, when
Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar visited the As-
sembly (premises) to pay
tributes to Dr BR Ambed-
kar…he had launched a
fresh attack against Speak-
er Biman Bandyopadhyay
.
Incidents took such a
turn that Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee an-
nounced that she had
blocked the Bengal Gover-
nor on Twitter, as he had
been making derogatory
remarks against the state
government especially on
themicrobloggingsite.Pan-
dit Jawaharlal Nehru had
said, “In a parliamentary
democracy
,thespeakerrep-
resents the dignity and the
freedom of the House and
because the House repre-
sentsthecountry
,thespeak-
er, in a way
, becomes the
symbol of the country’s
freedomandliberty
.”Itmay
be recalled that Governor
had not only raised ques-
tions on the role of the
Speaker but has also indi-
cated that he is working on
behalf of the ruling party
.
Since 1952, it has been
customary for the Gover-
nors of states to authorize
Speakers of the legislative
assemblies to administer
the oath of office to legisla-
tors. However, surprising-
ly
, after the recent by-polls
in Bengal where Chief
Minister Mamata Baner-
jee won from the Bhabani-
pore seat, the Governor
issued a notification and
withdrew the power of the
Speaker to administer the
oath of office to newly
elected legislators.
Recently, Chief Minis-
ter Mamata Banerjee
without naming the Gov-
ernor, said: “Raj Bhavan
mein ek raja baitha hai.
Kya nahi bolta hai. BJP ke
president se bhi bada. All
India President BJP ka -
aise baat karta hai.
The Governor on his
Twitter handle wrote:
“Stunned @MamataOffi-
cial ‘Raj Bhavan mein Ek
raja baitha hai’ stance,
while on a political visit to
Goa - the unexpected act of
impropriety
. On December
16 urged CM for interac-
tion as constitutional
functionaries act in har-
mony to serve people.”
In a separate message,
the Governor wrote: “Nei-
ther ‘law unto oneself’ nor
‘state within state’ Gov-
ernance @MamataOfficial
can be constitutionally
sanctified. CM continually
in breach of ‘duty’ under
Article 167 politicized
bureaucracy under Arti-
cle 166.”
It may be recalled that
on the issue of the approv-
al of the vice-chancellors
of the state-run universi-
ties, West Bengal educa-
tion minister Bratya Basu
indirectly referred to the
governor as ‘Pagla (Crazy)
Jagai (A humorous and
crazy character of famous
Bengali poet Sukumar
Roy) wrote: “It is high time
to introspect whether we
should continue with the
colonial legacy of the Gov-
ernor being the Chancel-
lor of Universities just by
the virtue of his post or we
should nominate eminent
scholars and educationists
as Chancellors.”
The arrest of three leg-
islators of TMC, including
two ministers, by the CBI,
took a controversial turn
after the Speaker of the
State Assembly Biman Ba-
nerjee termed the probe
agency’s action based on
the Governor’s consent
“illegal and unethical”. In
1967, the then Chief Minis-
ter of West Bengal, Ajay
Mukherjee, clashed with
the then Governor Dhara-
mvir. Governor Dharam-
vir had sent a letter to
Mukherjee asking him to
prove the majority of the
United Front within three
days. Mukherjee replied
that whatever happens
will happen in the Assem-
bly as per the pre-deter-
mined time. After receiv-
ing the letter, Dharamvir
sent a recommendation to
the Centre to dismiss the
Cabinet, and the conflict is
needless to say escalated.
Late Pramod Dasgupta,
former state secretary of
the CPI(M), had called for-
mer Governor BD Pandey
‘Bangla Daman Pandey’.
However, the biggest re-
sistance came during the
tenure of former West
Bengal Governor AP Shar-
ma. In 1984, Sharma chose
the name of Santosh Bhat-
tacharya by not approving
the Left-nominated candi-
date Ramen Poddar for the
post of the Vice-Chancel-
lor of Calcutta University
.
However, all said and
done in the past, the fight
thenwaswithintheparam-
eters of courtesy
. Now, the
disrespect is going out of
control. History has it that
the battles in the past were
limited. The main issues
and heartburns were gen-
erally the appointments of
the vice-chancellors or
about the majority issues
that were sorted out too.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
T
ROBIN ROY
The writer is Senior Associate Editor,
Free Press Journal, Mumbai and
former Managing Editor, First India
Even as conflicts between Governors and
state governments are nothing new and
West Bengal has had its share of
“unrest” in this regard since 1967, this
time the matter has gone beyond the
corridors of legislative decorum and political
etiquette. The media blackout of the
Governor’s speech in the Assembly or
writing to President Ram Nath Kovind
asking for the removal of the Governor are
some cases in hand
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Sidhu would have been right
choice for Punjab CM,says wife
PM: Cong used U’khand for leisure,
we’re promoting it as pilgrimage
New Delhi: PM Modi, virtually addressing a Vijay Sankalp
Sabha in Uttarakhand, said that Congress had treated Uttara-
khand for leisure when they were in power but never thought
of it becoming a center for pilgrimage tourism. “Congress’s
intention loyalty can be figured out with their poll campaign
slogans. They were in power in Delhi UP for years, used
to travel to Uttarakhand for leisure, but never thought of it as
pilgrimage. Villages got empty, people migrated.” —ANI
Amritsar: Congress
leader Navjot Kaur Sid-
hu said that her hus-
band and party’s Pun-
jab chief Navjot Singh
Sidhu would have been
the right choice for CM
face for the upcoming
Assembly polls.
On being asked if Ra-
hul Gandhi was misled
on making the decision
for CM face of Punjab,
Navjot Kaur replied
saying, “Yes...education
should be counted for
choosing someone at
such a high position.
Navjot Sidhu would’ve
been the right choice
(for CM), irrespective
of him being my hus-
band,” she added. —PTI
BJP’s PB MANIFESTO:
BOON FOR FARMERS
BJP RELEASES UP’s
POLL MANIFESTO
Chandigarh: BJP released
its manifesto for Punjab
Assembly polls, promising
to entirely waive off debt of
all farmers with less than
five acres of land-holdings
in state. Besides, party also
promised ‘Mehnat Da Pakka
Mull’ under which MSP for
farmers will be guaranteed.
Lucknow: With an aim to
honour legacy of legendary
singer Lata Mangeshkar,
Home Min Amit Shah
while releasing ‘Lok Kalyan
Sankalp Patra-2022’ for UP
said that BJP led govt will
establish a ‘Performing Arts
Academy.’ ‘Sankalp Patra’ is
UP govt’s resolution, he said.
CONG MADE MISTAKE BY ANNOUNCING
CM FACE ON CASTE LINES: AMARINDER
First India Bureau
Patiala: Punjab Lok
Congress (PLC) chief
Capt Amarinder Singh
on Tuesday said the
Congress had made a
bigmistakebyannounc-
ing a CM face, as “a
chief minister should
be decided on grounds
of capability and not on
the metric of caste, be it
a SC, Jat or Hindu,
which they had done.”
Pointing out that Pun-
jab was never before di-
vided on caste or reli-
gious lines, Capt said
“Charanjit Channi does
not have the caliber of a
chief minister,” and his
tall claims cannot fool
the people of the state.
“Channi claims he
has done “everything”’
in 111 days, he’s fooling
the people. Every pro-
ject has a gestation pe-
riodandtakesmonthsto
start,” he noted, warn-
ing the people against
getting carried away by
suchbrazenliessinceall
the projects that Channi
talks of were initiated
by his (Capt Ama-
rinder’s) government.
Interacting with the
media after a public
meeting in support of
the Patiala Rural PLC
candidate, Sanjeev Ku-
mar Bittu, the former
CM warned of an explo-
sion soon from Navjot
Singh Sidhu, who had
been discarded by his
own party for chief
ministerial candidature
in favour of Channi,
saying the PPCC presi-
dent was too ambitious
to stay quiet for long.
Saying that leaders
like Channi and
Sukhjinder Randhawa
had backstabbed him
andmisledtheCongress
high command after he
had supported them in
their political careers,
the PLC chief said these
men could not be trust-
ed. “They will compro-
mise the interests of
Punjab to furt her their
own,” he warned, in re-
sponse to questions. He
recalled how he had in-
ducted Channi into the
Congress and helped
him become MLA and
ensured Randhawa’s
seat in the last elections.
Answering a ques-
tion,Captsaidtherewas
no comparison between
Narendra Modi and Ra-
hul Gandhi as far as po-
litical and public life
experience goes.
ASSEMBLY POLLS
PRASHANT KISHOR MET ME
AT LEAST 70 TIMES: SIDHU
ON JOINING CONGRESS
New Delhi: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot
Sidhu on Tuesday said that his crossing over
to the Congress happened after around 70
visits by election strategist Prashant Kishor,
who was helping craft the party’s campaign
ahead of the 2017 assembly elections in
Punjab. “Prashant Kishor met me at least 70
times asking me to join the Congress,” he told
media. Mr Kishor, he added, was apprehen-
sive about the prospects of the party
and thought his addition will help
swing a chunk of votes. “PK said
the Congress won’t get over 30-35
seats. If you (Sidhu) come,
there will be a swing of 7-8
per cent,” he said. “Then
Bhai rang me up,” he
said. The Congress
came to power in the
assembly elections,
winning 77 out of
117 seats.
MANIPUR: MILITANT OUTFITS
INTIMIDATING CANDIDATES,
CLAIMS BJP’S ALLY NPP
New Delhi: The National People’s Party
(NPP) on Tuesday sought additional security
cover for its candidates contesting elections
in Manipur stating that they are facing
“intimidation and abuse in a targeted man-
ner”. According to the press release issued
by NPP today, the outfits namely “KNF-MC,
KNF-Z, UKLF, KNA, HPC (D) have openly
come out in blatant support of our op-
ponent’s candidates from BJP and NPF”.
In 55-Tipaimukh AC, the cadres of
militant outfits HPC (D) are moving
around with arms intimidating the
voters and village chiefs to vote for
BJP candidates. The underground
group like KNA and UKLF under
Suspension of Operation (SOO)
is threatening our party work-
ers and village chief to support
BJP candidate Letpao Haokip
at 42 - Tengnoupal AC, the
press release claimed.
TMC FILES
COMPLAINT
AGAINST
PRIYANKA
GANDHI OVER
'FLOUTING' MCC
RULES IN GOA
AKHILESH RELEASES SP’S
MANIFESTO FOR UP POLLS
GOA DECLARES POLLING DAY AS
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
GOA: 26 PER CENT CANDIDATES
BOOKED IN CRIMINAL CASES
ELECTION BUZZ
Five Congress MLAs in Meghalaya joined the BJP-backed
Meghalaya Democratic Alliance on Tuesday.
Meghalaya: All 5
Cong MLAs join
BJP-backed MDA
Shillong: The five re-
mainingCongressMLAs
in Meghalaya have writ-
ten to Chief Minister
Conrad Sangma, an-
nouncing their decision
to join the National Peo-
ple’s Party (NPP)-led
Mghalaya Democratic
Alliance (MDA) govern-
ment in the state.
In a letter to CM Con-
rad Sangma, the Con-
gress Legislature Party
stated, “We wish to sup-
port you and the MDA
(Meghalaya Democratic
Alliance) government to
strengthen the govern-
ment’s arms and deci-
sion making, so as to en-
sure that our joined ef-
forts will take the state
forward, in the general
interest of its citizens.”
The Congress MLAs
who have extended sup-
port to the government
are M Ampareen Lyng-
doh, Mayralborn Syiem,
Mohendro Rapsang,
Kimfa Marbaniang and
PT Sawkmie.
The BJP is also a part
of the ruling MDA gov-
ernment. With the join-
ing of Congress MLAs,
Sangma will have the
unique feat of getting
both the Congress and
BJP to be a part of the
same government.
In November last year,
12CongMLAs,including
former CM Mukul Sang-
ma, joined the Trina-
mool Congress. With the
remaining five Congress
MLAs joining the MDA
government, the TMC is
nowtheoppositionparty
in the state. —PTI
Sri Lankan Navy
arrests 11 Indian
fishermen, seizes
three trawlers
Colombo: The Sri Lan-
kan Navy has arrested
11 Indian fishermen
and seized three fishing
trawlers for allegedly
poaching in the coun-
try’s territorial waters,
an official statement
said on Tuesday
.
The arrests were
made close to Delft Is-
land in the north on
Monday. They were in-
dulging in bottom
trawling, the Navy said.
The arrests are part
of the Navy’s patrols to
cut illegal fishing in the
Sri Lankan waters to
minimise impact from
poaching on the local
fishermen and sustain-
ability of fishery re-
sources in Sri Lanka,
the statement said.
The fishermen issue
is a contentious one in
ties between the two
countries.
The issue of fisher-
men also figured in the
talks between MEA S
Jaishankar and Sri Lan-
kan counterpart GL Pei-
risinNewDelhionMon-
day
. Peiris is on a three-
dayofficialvisittoIndia.
“Exchanged views on
the fishermen issue and
agreed that bilateral
mechanisms should
meet early. Recognised
the importance of
greater tourism for eco-
nomic recovery. Also
noted the importance
of P2Plinkagesthrough
greater connectivity,”
Jaishankar said.
The arrests come as
the local immigration
officials are making ar-
rangements to repatri-
ate the 56 Indian fisher-
men released by a Lan-
kan court in the north-
ern Jaffna peninsula
last month. —PTI
ALL7AVALANCHE-HITPERSONNEL
DEAD,ARMYENDSRESCUEOP
New Delhi: All seven
Army personnel, who
had gone missing after
being caught in an ava-
lanche in Arunachal
Pradesh on Sunday,
have been found dead,
the Army said on Tues-
day. It added that the
bodies are being
brought back to the
nearest Army facility
.
It stated that seven In-
dian Army personnel,
who were part of a pa-
trolteam,werestruckby
an avalanche in the
high-altitude area in the
Kameng sector of
Arunachal Pradesh on
February 6, and “search
and rescue operations
were launched immedi-
ately
,includingairlifting
of specialised teams”.
The Army said that
thesearchandrescueop-
erations have “now been
concluded” and “bodies
of all seven individuals
have been recovered
fromtheavalanchesite”.
Unfortunately
, it said,
“despite the best efforts
of everyone involved, all
seven have been con-
firmed deceased.”
The area is located at
an altitude of 14,500 feet,
andhadbeenwitnessing
inclement weather with
heavy snowfall since the
last few days, said the
Army
.“Thebodiesof the
soldiers are currently
being transferred from
the avalanche site to the
nearest Army medical
facility for further for-
malities,” it added.
Troops getting caught
inanavalancheisnotun-
common, and the armed
forces have lost person-
nel to such incidents in
the past as well. The last
suchincidentwasinMay
2020, when two Army
personnel,whowerepart
of a patrol-cum-snow
clearing party
, had died
after being caught in an
avalanche in Sikkim.
According to the data
shared by the govern-
ment in the Parliament
in February 2020, the
Army had lost six per-
sonnel to avalanches
and snow-slides in the
Siachen Glacier in 2019,
and 11 others in other
parts of the country
.
The government had
said that all armed forc-
es personnel inducted
into “High Altitude re-
gions are provided ade-
quate training in moun-
tain craft, ice craft and
survival in glaciated ter-
rain in mountain coping
withanyeventualitylike
avalanches”andarealso
“taught to handle medi-
cal emergencies”. —PTI
Ashok Gehlot
@ashokgehlot51
Deeply saddened
to know seven
Indian Army per-
sonnel have lost lives after
they were struck by an
avalanche in high altitude
area of Kameng Sector in
Arunachal Pradesh. My
heartfelt condolences to
the bereaved families. May
they remain strong in this
difficult time.
Rakesh Ranjan
New Delhi: MoSforPer-
sonnel Dr. Jitendra Sin-
gh on Tuesday held a
detailedandcomprehen-
sive meeting with a del-
egation of officers from
the CSS Forum which
has been highlighting
through Twitter and
other media campaigns
thegrossstateof promo-
tional avenues for CSS
cadre officers who are
considered as the back-
bone and institutional
memory of the central
bureaucracy
.
While it goes to the
credit of Dr. Singh that
he called the meeting at
his own initiative, it re-
mains to be seen how
quickly he sorts out the
problemshighlightedby
the delegation, having
already spoken to the
AGwhomhealsobriefed
in regard to the critical
SC case which is said to
have caused all the con-
fusions regarding the
promotion matters of
CSS cadre officials.
The AG is believed to
have assured the Minis-
ter that he would revert
to him with legal ave-
nues available after ex-
amining the whole is-
sue in the light of the
Minister’s briefing.
At the meeting, the
CSS delegation im-
pressed on the Minister
about the necessity to
immediately start regu-
lar promotions through
all CSS grades, hold
LDCE exam 2018 on-
wards, declaration of
Oct 1 as CSS Day, grant
of benefits of OGAS (or-
ganised group A ser-
vice), removal of 9-year
clause for central depu-
tation, declaration of
NFSG in JAG Grade,
operationalisation of
30% posts at JAG level
from overall senior duty
posts, etc, and cadre re-
view by CR Division.
The delegation also
drew the attention of
Dr. Singh to what it con-
siders as the chief
cause of mismanage-
ment of issues in the
CSS cadre. It informed
the minister that much
of the problems in the
CSS cadre are due to the
fact the people who do
not belong to the CSS
Cadre occupy the im-
portant posts in the CS
Division, with very lit-
tle understanding of
the Cadre. So the dele-
gation requested the
Minister that at least
Director level posts in
CS Division must be re-
served for CSS officers.
Readers may recall
that Indianmandarins
has been consistently
highlighting the plight
of CSS cadre officials.
Sinceit’snevertoolate
to do the right thing, Dr.
Singh’s initiative may
hopefully resolve the
problemsof CSSofficials
in keeping with his gov-
ernment’s commitment
to good governance.
Dr Jitendra takes the first step to resolve CSS promotional problems
IN THE MEET
The delegation informed
Singh that much of the
problems in the CSS
cadre are due to the fact
the people who do not
belong to the Cadre
occupy vital posts in the
CS Division, with very
little understanding. So
the delegation requested
the Minister that at least
Director level posts in
CS Division must be
reserved for CSS officers.
A delegation of Central Secretariat officials meet Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Tuesday.
Capt Amarinder Singh at an election rally in Patiala, on Tuesday.
Sidhu’s wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu
BEWARE OF NEFARIOUS ALLIANCE OF
CONG, BADAL AND BJP, SAYS MANN
Chandigarh: Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) Chief Ministerial
Candidate and Member of
Parliament Bhagwant Mann
alleged, “In order to prevent
the Aam Aadmi Party from
forming the government in
Punjab and to maintain the
rule of traditional political
parties, the Shiromani Akali
Dal, the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) and the Con-
gress have once again
colluded.

INDIA
06
PARLIAMENT SESSION
‘NDA IS NO DATA
AVAILABLE GOVT’
New Delhi: Congress
MP P Chidambaram
on Tuesday took a jibe
at the Centre for not
having official data on
COVID deaths due to
oxygen shortage.
He also charged that
PM Narendra Modi
lobs barb of 'tukde tuk-
de gang' at Congress,
but the government has
no data to substantiate
the allegations against
the Opposition party
.
Chidambaram said,
The government had
in the past admitted not
having data when a
question was asked
about the members of
tukde tukde gang; the
minister had at that
time said that there was
no data available.
The senior Congress
leader further said that
the government has no
data available on 'tukde
tukde gang', on oxygen
shortage deaths, on
bodies flowing in rivers,
on migrants walking
back to homes.
It's 'No Data Availa-
ble NDA government',
said Chidambaram in
Rajya Sabha. Respond-
ing to Prime Minister's
attack on Congress for
imposing Emergency,
Chidambaram hit back
and said had Congress
not been around this
House would still have
been under the Govern-
ment of India Act 1919
the Council of Princes.
Had Congress not
been there, this House
wouldstillbeunderGov-
ernment of India Act
1919 the Council of
Princes and instead of
us the bejewelled rulers
would have been sitting
andpraisingQueenEliz-
abeth II. Thank God for
Congress that we have a
Rajya Sabha and we
speak here, said Chid-
ambaram. —ANI
He also charged that PM Modi lobs barb of ‘tukde tukde gang’ at Cong,
but govt has no data to substantiate allegations against the Oppn
New Delhi: LoP in Rajya
Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge
on Tuesday slammed
PM Modi’s ‘divide and
rule’ comment in the Parl
saying said that it applies
only to him. Speaking
with ANI, Kharge said,
“What the Prime Minister
has said applies only to
him. To divide every party,
sabotaging people in
the name of religion and
caste, they are ruling by
dividing,” alleged Kharge.
New Delhi: Bhupinder
Singh Honey — nephew
of Punjab Chief Minister
Charanjit Singh Channi,
arrested by the Enforce-
ment Directorate (ED) in
connection with a money
laundering case pertain-
ing to illegal mining in
Punjab, has moved a
bail application through
his counsel at a Special
Court.
Kochi: The Kerala HC on
Tuesday upheld the order
of the Ministry of Infor-
mation and Broadcasting
to revoke the license of a
Malayalam news channel
named ‘Media One’ from
the list of permitted news
channels citing security
reasons. The Court dis-
missed petitions filed by
the ‘Media One’ channel
against the govt order.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on
Tuesday said that the Centre has not hidden the
number of deaths due
to COVID-19 in the
country. He said that
the Centre compiles
the data on fatalities
on the basis of the
inputs provided by
the state govts of the
UTs.Around 5.33 lakh deaths have been reported in
the country so far out of which Kerala has recon-
ciled more than 20,000 deaths, Mandaviya said.
PM Modi on Tuesday said that the
world is appreciating the initiatives tak-
en by India during the pandemic.”The
President of India has undertaken
initiatives during the pandemic for all
the adversely affected social groups in
the society which gives us hope and
assures us that under his guidance we
will continue to take new initiatives to
combat situation,” said Modi.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted
the out-of-court settlement between Gujarat Urja Vikas
Nigam Ltd (GUVNL) and Adani Power (Mundra) Ltd
over the supply of electricity and disposed of the cura-
tive plea in view of the settlement deed. The curative
petition was filed by GUVNL against a three-judge
bench 2019 verdict of the top court which had upheld
the termination of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
by Adani Power. A five-judge Constitution Bench of
Chief Justice of India disposed of the curative plea.
New Delhi: The SC on Monday issued notice to
the Centre and the Tamil Nadu govtt on a plea
against the latter's decision allocating 50 per cent
of seats in super-specialty courses in government
medical colleges for the in-service doctors of the
state. A bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and
B.R. Gavai sought response from the Tamil Nadu
govt, Union Ministry of Health Family Welfare,
and others.Issue notice returnable on February 25,
2022. Counsel for the respondents is permitted to
file a reply, the meanwhile, it said in its order.
PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday said
that the Cong had presided over the
massacre of Sikhs in 1984 and adopt-
ed all conspiracies to rule Punjab,
while the BJP had always stood by the
community. “To work for Punjabis and
Sikh traditions have always been the
NDA’s motive. Few people will always
been seen standing against the Sikhs
and Sikh traditions,” Modi said.
MALLIKARJUN
SLAMS PM MODI
CHANNI'S NEPHEW
MOVES BAIL PLEA
HC UPHOLDS BAN
ON MEDIAONE
CENTRE NOT HIDING COVID-19
FATALITY NUMBERS: MANDAVIYA
‘WORLD APPRECIATED
INITIATIVES TAKEN BY INDIA’
SUPREME COURT DISPOSES OF GUVL-
ADANIPOWER (MUNDRA) LTD CURATIVE
SC NOTICE ON PLEA AGAINST 50% SEATS
TO IN-SERVICE DOCTORS IN NEET-SS
‘CONG MASSACRED SIKHS,
BJP ALWAYS STOOD BY THEM’
PM hits out
at Cong for
double digits
inflation
SC refuses
interim bail to
Azam Khan
38.70 CR ALLOCATED FOR CHEETAH
INTRODUCTION PROJECT: CENTRE TO LS
New Delhi: Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi on Tuesday
said that India is
the only country in
the world, which is
witnessing high
economic growth
and also keeping
inflation in check
at about 4-5 per
cent, which was in
double digits before
2014. “The US is fac-
ing the worst infla-
tion in 40 years.
The UK is facing
the worst inflation
in 30 years. Similar
trends are visible
in many other Eu-
ropean countries.
During the UPA re-
gime, inflation had
touched double dig-
its. We are the only
largeeconomywith
high growth and
low inflation,” said
PM Modi.
New Delhi: The SC
on Tuesday refused
interim bail to SP
leader Azam Khan
to enable him to ef-
fectively contest
the February-
March assembly
elections in Uttar
Pradesh, saying he
must go to either
the trial courts or
the Allahabad high
court for relief. A
bench of justices L
Nageswara Rao
and BR Gavai said
it cannot directly
entertain a writ pe-
tition for granting
bail in four cases.
New Delhi: The Centre
has allotted `38.70 cr for
cheetah introduction
project up to 2025-26, the
Union government told
the Lok Sabha.
As much as Rs 38.70
crore under the ongoing
centrally sponsored
schemeof ‘ProjectTiger’
has been allocated to the
cheetah introduction
projectfortheyears2021-
22 till 2025-26,” Ashwini
Kumar Choubey
, Minis-
ter of State for Environ-
ment,ForestandClimate
Change, informed the
Parliament on Monday
.
The cheetah was de-
clared extinct from In-
dia in 1952; currently
there are no cheetahs in
any national park or
wildlife sanctuary in
India. Cheetah is the
only large carnivore to
have become extinct in
independent India.
The Government of
India is in the process of
holding consultation
meetings with African
countries for bringing
cheetah in the country
.
A total of 12-14 cheetahs
are intended to be
brought from South Af-
rica or Namibia or other
African countries over a
period of five years as
per the action plan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in Rajya Sabha during
the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
MSME benefited most from
Aatmanirbhar Bharat package
New Delhi: PM Nar-
endra Modi on Tues-
day said that the
MSME sector has
benefited the most
from the Aatmanirb-
har Bharat package
as is evident from the
fact that MSMEs are
coming forward to
enter the defence sec-
tor. In Uttar Pradesh
and Tamil Nadu, de-
fence corridors are
being built. The way
MSMEs are joining
the defence sector is
very motivating PM
Modi said.
HC dismisses plea moved by Air India engineers
New Delhi: The Delhi
HC on Monday dis-
missed the petitions
moved by the AIAE As-
sociation and Air India
Aircraft Engineers As-
sociation challenging
the orders of cut in al-
lowance and leave with-
out pay upto five years
and reduction in flying
hours in case of pilots.
Justice V Kameswar
Rao said, Petitions are
dismissed. The dismiss-
al of the writ petition
shall not preclude the
Ministry of Civil Avia-
tion, to review the im-
pugned decision, if they
are empowered to do so
in respect of AIESL.
The court said senior
advocates appearing in
the matter have not dis-
puted the power of the
respondents to rational-
ise the allowances.
Image for representational purpose only.
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Ever since
Nirmala Sitharaman
presented the budget
for the financial year
2022-23, a section is cel-
ebrating that the gov-
ernment is going to
open an e-university,
create digital content
under the e-Vidya pro-
gram and it has also
been announced to
launch 'One Classroom,
One TV Channel', for
which good budget has
also been allocated. The
question is whether it is
a matter of celebrating
education through e-
university, e-vidya,
channel? Can it be made
an alternative to class-
room education? Due to
the compulsion in the
corona virus pandemic,
online classes were
started, but it cannot be
made a substitute for
classroom education.
It has been confirmed
by many studies that
even in urban popula-
tion, there are more
than 40 percent children
who are not able to take
online classes. In areas
of rural and forest or
mountaineous areas,
online education is dif-
ficult for most children.
There is no qualitative
change in the learning
of children who are ca-
pable i.e. those who
have TV
, laptop or smart
phone and internet con-
nection. Their learning
process is not improv-
ing and health problems
are also arisin by con-
tinuos exposure to
screens. Therefore, the
government should
keep the principle of
promoting remote edu-
cation only as a pilot
project and by increas-
ing the grant to schools,
colleges, universities, it
should be ensured that
all schools, colleges
open as soon as possible
so that children can
start their classroom
education as there can
be no alternative to it.
Is remote learning
a reason for
celebration?
RS ADOPTS MOTION OF THANKS
TO PREZ'S ADDRESS
New Delhi: The motion was adopted
by the Upper House approved after
the reply to the discussions by PM
Narendra Modi. RS last week had
clocked 100 per cent productiv-
ity, with the Upper House making
full use of the available time in
the ongoing Budget session in
the absence of any adjourn-
ments. The 2022 Budget
Session of the Parl com-
menced on Jan 31 with
President Ram Nath
Kovind’s address.
The first part of the
budget session is
being held from Jan
31 to Feb 11 and the
second part will take
place from March
14 to April 8.
Mahesh Sharma
In the last seven years,
although there has been
a decline everywhere in
India, the quality of the
data has declined the
most. Many a times In-
dia has to face embar-
rassment due to this in
international forums as
well. Questions are be-
ing raised on every fig-
ure of the country
. But it
seems that the govern-
ment is not feeling the
need to improve the
quality of the data and
is satisfied with the cur-
rent situation. Only
then the amount allo-
cated in the last budget
has been reduced to al-
mostzerotoimprovethe
qualityof thedata.Even
in the last budget, it is
not known how the gov-
ernment had allocated a
huge amount for this.
In the first budget
presented last year i.e.
2021-22 amid the Coro-
na epidemic, the cen-
tral government allo-
cated a budget of Rs 28
crore to improve the
quality of data. It was
named the National
Program for Improv-
ing Quality of Statis-
tics in India. 28 crore
was given for this item
but the Revised Budget
Estimates showed that
no amount was spent
on improving the qual-
ity of the data. Only
then the allocation in
this item has been
completely abolished
in the next year’s budg-
et. A token amount of
one lakh rupees has
been fixed for the qual-
ity of the data. Just
imagine, where there
was an allocation of 28
crores, now it has re-
duced to merely one
lakh rupees!
There is no need to improve
the quality of the data
COURTESY MEET!
Jharkhand Congress MPs, MLAs and senior Congress
leaders including State Cong in charge Avinash Pande
and PCC chief Rajesh Thakur meet Rahul Gandhi and KC
Venugopal on Tuesdsay.
—PHOTO
BY
ANI
IN THE COURTYARD

NEWS
07
DENIED TICKET,
BJP MLA FROM
BAIRIA
SURENDRA
SINGH RESIGNS
Denied a ticket for the
upcoming Uttar Pradesh
Assembly polls, BJP MLA from
Bairia Surendra Singh on
Tuesday resigned from the
primary membership of the
party. He said he will now
contest elections as an
independent from Bairia, from
where the BJP has fielded state
minister Anand Swaroop
Shukla, who won from Ballia
Sadar seat in the 2017
Assembly elections. “Today I
have resigned from the primary
membership of the BJP. The top
leadership of the BJP has not
respected my ‘seva dharma’ and
‘sanskar’. I will now contest the
elections on the strength of the
people and will file my
nomination papers on February
11,” Singh told reporters at his
residence here. Taking a jibe at
Shukla, who is the minister of
state for parliamentary affairs,
Singh said, “The BJP has sent
the rejected person from Ballia
Sadar to Bairia and the people
of Bairia will not accept him.”
Singh also claimed that the BJP
will lose all the five assembly
seats in the Ballia Lok Sabha
constituency. —PTI
CONG’S PRATIMA
PAL DISRUPTS
BJP-SP
CALCULATIONS
Pratima Pal, the Congress
candidate for the assembly
constituency of Sirsaganj, has
entered the electoral fray with the
party slogan of “I am a girl, I can
fight, too”, and is all set to disrupt
the calculations of other
candidates. Sirsaganj assembly
seat, which was formed in 2012,
will see an interesting battle
between Yadav vs Yadav as both
BJP and SP have fielded
candidates from the Yadav
community, but the contest seems
to be tilting towards Congress,
which by fielding Pratima Pal, a
candidate who is much loved by
the people of Sirsaganj, is gaining
the upper hand. Pratima Pal
during her visit to various places
in the assembly constituency on
Tuesday was welcomed warmly by
the public at all the places. The
amount of support Pratima Patil
has gained is becoming a cause of
concern in the opposition parties’
camps. Pratima said she is
confident of victory after visiting
Fakkarpur, Nagla Sallar, Ghudia
Tikar, Dhakpura, Bahadurpura and
other areas in the constituency.
She said that people are ready to
vote for Congress and that this
election will see the political giants
slayed. She added that Congress
will win in this election as the
current and previous MLAs have
not done any major work in the
constituency. —First India Bureau
CRIME ROUND-UP
OVER 10,000
LICENSED
ARMS
DEPOSITED
WITH
POLICE
Ghaziabad: In
compliance of the
Election Commission
(EC) directions,
10,500 licensed arms
have been deposited
in police stations in
Ghaziabad, officials
said. The Ghaziabad
district administration
had issued orders to
deposit the licensed
arms in accordance
with the guidelines
issued by the EC to
ensure conduct of free,
fair and peaceful polls.
25 arms licences have
also been cancelled in
the district, an official
said. “81 companies
of paramilitary forces
have been allocated to
the district for election
duty. Loni and a part
of Dhaulana (Hapur
district) constituency
which falls under
Ghaziabad district has
been labelled ‘hyper
sensitive’. —PTI
SP’S NOIDA
CANDIDATE
ALLEGES
HARASSMENT
BY COPS
Noida: The Samajwadi
Party candidate in Gau-
tam Buddh Nagar’s Noi-
da on Monday alleged
harassment by police
and cast aspersions over
the fairness of the as-
sembly elections. SP’s
SunilChaudharythreat-
ened to commit suicide
along with his family if
his grievances are not
addressed. The 43-year-
old SP candidate alleged
thathewasbeingthreat-
enedandhispartywork-
ers being harassed late
inthenightbythepolice
to ensure the victory of
BJP’s sitting Noida
MLA Pankaj Singh but
the BJP’s Noida unit
trashed the charge and
said Chaudhary should
approach the adminis-
tration with his com-
plaint. Chaudhary had
lost to Singh, who had
secured over 64 percent
of the total votes polled,
on the seat in the 2017
assembly election. —PTI
STF ARRESTS 4 DRUG PEDDLERS
WITH 4.69 QUINTAL HEMP
Lucknow: UP STF has arrested 4 members of inter-
state drug peddlers and recovered about 5 quintal
hemp. STF sources said that acting on tip-off, the STF
team arrested 4 of a drug-peddling gang near Bhiti
Rawat crossing under the Sahjanva police station
area in Gorakhpur district. The arrested accused were
identified as Ravishan, Nizzamuddin, Mohammad
Amir Hussain, and Mithhu Savar and recovered 4.69
quintal hemp from them which costs about Rs 1 crore
in the international market. Police have registered the
case and interrogations were underway.
GIRL RAPED BY SHOPKEEPER
Muzaffarnagar: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly
raped by a shopkeeper who also filmed the act,
police said on Tuesday. Family members of the
victim told police that she had gone to buy some
goods from a shop where the shopkeeper sexually
assaulted her. He also made a video of the act
and shared it on social media, the police said.
The incident took place on Sunday in the Purkazi
area of the district, they added. Police said a case
under the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has
been registered against the accused and he has
been arrested. —PTI
@MATHURA
(Clockwise from top) Priyanka Gandhi at the Congress roadshow in support of
party candidate Pradeep Mathur in Mathura on Tuesday. Priyanka Gandhi during
Yamuna Puja at Vishram Ghat in Mathura before an election campaign roadshow
on Tuesday. BJP MP from Mathura Hema Malini with BJP candidate Srikant
Sharma during a door-to-door campaign in Mathura on Tuesday. —PHOTOS BY PTI
PARTIES TRY TO CONNECT
WITH EMERGING VOTE BANK
Lucknow: Priyanka
Gandhi, whose elec-
tioneering is centred
around women issues,
recently recalled the
iconic dialogue from
Bollywood movie ‘Dee-
war’ to counter critics
that her party had lost
base in poll-bound UP,
saying, “Mere Paas Be-
hen Hai” (I have sister).
Congress list of women
candidates includes the
names of actor-activist
Sadaf Jafar, who was
arrested during the an-
ti-citizenship law pro-
tests in Lucknow in
December 2019, and
mother of Unnao rape
victim whose family
has long fought against
the alleged harassment
of then BJP MLA
Kuldeep Singh Sengar.
Others figuring in the
Congress list of women
nominees are Poonam
Pandey
, an Asha worker
from Shahjahanpur
who was allegedly
roughed up while de-
manding an increase in
honorarium, and Ritu
Singh from Muhamma-
di seat in Lakhimpur
Kheri, a former SP
worker who was man-
handled in broad day
light to stop her from
filing nomination for
panchayat elections.
Reaching out to this seg-
ment of voters, PM Nar-
endra Modi on Decem-
ber 21 had transferred
Rs 1,000 crore to bank
accounts of self-help
groupstobenefitaround
16 lakh women. The pro-
gramme in Prayagraj
had seen the participa-
tion of over 2 lakh wom-
en. The BJP has given
ticket to Aditi Singh, the
Congress turncoat from
Rae Bareli Sadar seat.
The Samajwadi Party,
which has adopted the
new tag line “Nai hawa
hai, Nai SaPa hai’, has
recently sought to give
new meaning to its M-Y
(Muslim-Yadav) formu-
la which had catapulted
it to power in UP
. “In the
new SP, M-Y stands for
Mahila (women) and
youth. We are address-
ing issues in a larger
perspective now and are
not shackled by
casteism,” SP chief
Akhilesh Yadav had
stated in an informal in-
teraction with reporters
recently
. The Samajwa-
di Party has fielded for-
mer minister Gayatri
Prasad Prajapati’s wife
MaharajiDevifromAm-
ethi, and Pooja Shukla,
the student activist who
had shown a black flag
to CM Yogi Adityanath,
from Lucknow (north)
assembly seat. Prajapati
andtwoothersweresen-
tenced to life imprison-
ment in a 2017 rape case.
Though led by a wom-
an leader, the BSP has
never stressed on a sep-
arate campaign for mo-
bilising women voters
and has lately been con-
centrating on its social
engineering formula
which had brought it to
poweronitsownin2007.
AsperElectionCommis-
sionoffice,enrolmentof
women in large num-
bers during revision of
electoral rolls has led to
an improvement in the
gender ratio by 11 points
from 857 against 1000
male voters on Novem-
ber 1, 2021 to 868 on De-
cember 5. The Commis-
sion has also launched a
programme to increase
the participation of
women in voting for in-
creasing the voting per-
centage in the state. —PTI
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad HC on Monday
slammed the station
house officer (SHO) of a
police station in Bu-
daun district for pass-
ing an order to hand
over the custody of an
adult woman to another
adult man Swale Raza.
Hearing a bail applica-
tion filed by one Swale
Raja, Justice JJ Munir
also sought a personal
affidavit from senior su-
perintendent of police
(SSP), Badaun in two
days as the court called
it “unpalatable as to
how the custody of an
adult could be given to
another adult, and that
too, by a police officer”.
‘An adult is always
free to go wherever he or
she may wish to, but the
act of handing over the
custody of the woman to
Raza, appears to be an
act curtailing an adult’s
liberty to stay wherever
he or she wishes to, un-
hinderedbytheconfines
of another’s care or con-
trol. Here the woman
has virtually been put
under the care and con-
trol of Swale Raza,’ the
court remarked. While
fixing February 9, as the
next date of hearing, the
court has asked the SSP
,
Budaun, to file his per-
sonal affidavit by that
time, indicating under
what circumstances, the
custody of an adult
could be handed over to
another adult by the sta-
tion house officer, Bi-
nawar, of Budaun dis-
trict and how he has
permitted proceedings
of this kind to be taken
by his subordinates.
During the investiga-
tion, the SHO of police
station –Binawar of
Badaun district on May
25, 2021 handed over the
custody of the woman,
in accordance with her
wishes, after intimating
the higher officials of
the police, to the appli-
cant Raza with the in-
structions that whenev-
er necessary
, the woman
andherdaughterbepro-
duced before the police.
With share of women voters steadily increasing,
there has been a subtle shift in how the parties are
viewing the role of this segment in the Hindi heartland
Cong is experimenting with evolving
women as its vote bank has taken lead
by announcing it will give 40% tickets to them
1 2
WOMEN CENTRIC ISSUES CANDIDATES
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
HIGHEST EVER
AS PER LAW
HC slams SHO for handing over
custody of adult woman to man
Allahabad High Court
Surendra Singh
8 BOOKED FOR
DISRUPTING BSP
CANDIDATE’S
CAMPAIGNING
Muzaffarnagar: Eight
people were booked for
allegedly disrupting the
campaigning of a BSP
candidate for the UP
Polls in Shamli district,
police said on Tuesday.
A police officer said
the case was filed on
a basis of a video, that
has gone viral, where
some people were
seen misbehaving with
BSP candidate from
Thanabhawan assem-
bly seat Zahir Malik. In
another incident, SP-
RLD alliance candidate
Anil Kumar and his
100 supporters were
booked for allegedly
violating the model
code of conduct and
Covid norms. They
were found holding an
election meeting with-
out permission, SHO
Ashutosh said. —PTI

COVID-19
UPDATE
WORLD
57,71,443
TOTAL DEATHS
31,87,04,015
TOTAL RECOVERED
7,43,09,734
ACTIVE CASES
39,87,85,192
TOTAL CASES
INDIA
5,04,078
TOTAL DEATHS
4,08,40,658
TOTAL RECOVERED
9,94,875
ACTIVE CASES
4,23,39,611
TOTAL CASES
08
2NDFRONT
Humans focus too much on what
was ‘not done’ in the past when they
can focus on the present and ensure
‘it is done’ in the future.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The BJP has
developed its poll narra-
tives around Hindutva
and development in the
battle for UP and the Sa-
majwadi Party on wel-
fare schemes based on
socialism,butthecoreof
their poll strategies is-
caste arithmetic and
communal faultlines.
BeittheBJP
,theSPor
the BSP, a look at their
list of candidates makes
it clear that caste calcu-
lationandreligiousaffil-
iationaretheprimecon-
siderations in the selec-
tion of the nominees for
the 2022 UP elections.
The Congress under
its general secretary
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
is banking on the wom-
en voters to capture the
power in the Hindi
heartland.
Sticking to its prom-
ise of reserving 40 per-
cent tickets to women,
the grand old party is
experimenting with
greenhorns, like an
aganwadi worker, the
mother of the Unnao
rape victim besides
glamorous faces like Bi-
kni girl’ Archana Gau-
tam from Hasinapur in
Meerut, and actor-activ-
ist Sadar Jafar.
“Nomatterhowmuch
you talk about vikas (de-
velopment), the victory
in polls hinges on which
caste and community is
supporting you,” Pitar-
deen Shukla, an elderly
homemaker in Amethi
said. Brajesh Shukla, a
poll analyst said in Luc-
know, “Nobody can
deny ‘jati-dharma’ in
rajneeti in UP but there
is something else also
which is guiding voters’
choice of a party in the
polls. He said a Muslim
e-autorickshaw driver
in Hathras told him that
the government had
provided him monetary
assistance to get an arti-
ficial limb without ask-
ing for his religion and
asserted that why he
should not support it.
With year-long pro-
tests against the three
agriculture laws having
their echo in western
UP, farmers’ issues are
being prominently used
by the SP-RLD combine
against the BJP in the
region where 58 seats
will go to vote in 11 dis-
tricts in the first phase
on February 10. BJP
leaders, besides making
efforts to prove them-
selves being pro-farmer,
are raking up the 2013
Muzaffarnagar riots to
allegedly create a wedge
between the new friend-
ship of Jats and Mus-
lims, the core support
groups of RLD chief
Jayant Chaudhary and
SP chief Akhilesh Ya-
dav, respectively
.
The SP and RLD are
fighting the polls in al-
liance. BJP leaders
have, during their cam-
paigning, heaped prais-
es on Raja Mahendra
Prartap, a Jat icon who
played a prominent role
in the freedom struggle,
to reach out to the com-
munity especially in
the western UP.
First India Bureau
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Tues-
day refused to grant any
interim relief to Sama-
jwadi Party leader
Azam Khan, who had
sought interim bail to
campaign in upcoming
Uttar Pradesh assembly
elections.
The top court refused
to entertain Azam
Khan’s plea, however, it
granted liberty to
Azam Khan to ap-
proach the concerned
court and request them
to take the matter expe-
ditiously. Senior advo-
cate Kapil Sibal, ap-
pearing for Khan told
SC that bail plea was
not being taken up for
the last three-four
months despite repeat-
ed requests for the
hearing. He urged the
court to grant Khan in-
terim relief so that he
can campaign in the
elections.
“Do not bring politics
to the court,” the court
remarked during the
hearing.SP leader
Azam Khan had moved
Supreme court seeking
interim bail to cam-
paign in elections.The
leader has said in his
plea that the State has
adopted all means
available to purposeful-
ly delay the proceed-
ings in these remaining
three bail applications
so as to ensure that the
petitioner is incarcerat-
ed during the elections
and cannot join in the
election campaign for
his party
.
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: After the
2017 assembly polls,
Shivpal Yadav broke
away from the Sama-
jwadi Party (SP) to
form the Pragatisheel
Samajwadi Party (Lo-
hiyawadi).
Many veterans of
the SP had joined the
Shivpal camp. Keeping
in mind the political
future of these loyal-
ists, Shivpal had de-
manded 100 seats from
Akhilesh in the initial
phase of reconcilia-
tion. Later this num-
ber dropped down to
nine.
But finally only
Shivpal Singh Yadav
could get the SP ticket
from Jaswantnagar.
The hopes of the rest
of the leaders of the
PSP were completely
grounded; many have
started switching over
to other parties.
Raghuraj Singh
Shakya, state
vice-president of PSPL
and a two-term former
MP from Etawah LS
seat and MLA from Et-
awah Sadar seat, could
not get a ticket, so he
joined the BJP.
Former cabinet min-
ister Shiv Kumar Be-
ria, who had a strong-
hold on Kanpur De-
hat’s Rasulabad and
Bilhaur seats, was
once considered very
close to MSY, but he
also joined BJP. Shar-
da Pratap Shukla, a
minister in the Akh-
ilesh government and
very close to Shivpal,
was a contender from
Sarojininagar seat, but
Abhishek Mishra was
made SP candidate
in his place. Being
hurt, Sharda Pratap
joined BJP.
Former SP minister
Malik Kamal Yusuf,
who had been MLA
several times from Du-
mariyaganj seat of
Siddharthnagar, want-
ed a ticket for his son
Irfan, but Akhilesh’s
party fielded BSP turn-
coat Syeda Khatoon
from this seat. Now Ir-
fan is contesting on
behalf of Owaisi’s
AIMIM.
SBSP chief Om-
prakash Rajbhar is the
candidate of the SP al-
liance from the seat of
former minister Shad-
ab Fatima, who was a
two-time MLA from
Ghazipur’s Jahurabad
seat.
Now this influential
woman leader of
Shivpal camp has no
option but to contest as
an independent candi-
date.
Senior leader Rajen-
dra Yadav from Bakshi
Ka Talab seat is disap-
pointed as SP has field-
ed Gomti Yadav in his
place.
Noida: Ahead of the
state assembly elec-
tions, the Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) on Tuesday
hit out at Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Yogi Ad-
ityanath alleging mis-
management by him
during the Covid-19
pandemic.
AAP’s Rajya Sabha
member Sanjay Singh
slammedAdityanathfor
his indecent remarks
against Delhi Chief
MinisterArvindKejriw-
al, equating his expres-
sions with those of a
chauraha chhap neta.
While dubbing Adi-
tyanath’s remarks as
those of a chauraha ch-
hap neta, Singh, also
the in-charge of his par-
ty’s affairs in UP
, assert-
ed that his own remarks
were befitting a chief
minister who utters
words like garmi nikaal
denge and thok denge .
The attack came a
day after Adityanath
and Kejriwal got en-
gaged in an online fight
trading barbs over the
mismanagement by
their governments
during the pandemic.
His (Adityanath’s)
language against a pop-
ular and elected Chief
Minister Arvind Kejri-
wal -- he said ‘Suno Ke-
jriwal’ — this kind of
indecent language for
an elected chief minis-
ter reflects that Aditya-
nath ji might have un-
fortunately become the
CM of UP but he speaks
like a ‘chauraha chhap
neta’, Singh said.
“He is talking about
COVID-19 mismanage-
ment but I am saying if
there is any live exam-
ple of the mismanage-
ment, it is Adityanath.
We have seen decom-
posed dead bodies
along river banks in
Prayagraj, Kanpur,
Ballia and Ghazipur in
Uttar Pradesh with
birds and animals nib-
bling on them. People
have not forgotten
those images,” Singh
told reporters. —PTI
First India Bureau
Noida: Is it possible to
be in politics without
leaving the path of hon-
esty, wonders IPS offi-
cer-turned-politician
Asim Arun as he seeks
financial support from
people to fight the Uttar
Pradesh Assembly elec-
tions.
The former Kanpur
police commissioner
had in January opted
for voluntary retire-
ment from the service
and joined the BJP,
which has fielded him
from the Kannauj (Sa-
dar) seat for the polls.
In his appeal on so-
cial media, 51-year-old
Arun says he is now
into Lok Seva (service
of the people), which
requires money for
works to be done but
he does not want to
compromise his basic
principles.
He also suggests
measures like main-
taining less number of
vehicles, having less
staff and transparency
in expenses for people
in public service to
keep the expenditure
in check.
My father late Shri-
ram Arun is often cited
as an example when it
comes to honesty and I
have always tried to fol-
low his path. Now I am
in ‘Lok Seva’ but on the
condition that I will
not compromise with
my basic principles,
Arun said.
On the other hand,
public service requires
money for works to be
completed. This is the
reason why conscious
people feel that they
wouldhavefixedcertain
problemsif theywerein
a position of power but
get discouraged think-
ing of the expenses re-
quired to fix the prob-
lem, he added.
Casteism, communal appeal at core of political parties’ strategy in UP polls
MISSION 2022
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Be it the BJP, the
SP or BSP, a
look at their list
of candidates
makes it clear
that caste
calculations and
religious
affiliations
are prime
considerations in
the selection for
the elections
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi (Right) sweeping at Luv Kush
Nagar, a Dalit hamlet in Lucknow. —FILE PHOTO
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IN SAME BOX
No SC relief to Azam
Khan to campaign
for UP elections
Shivpal’s‘hurt’generals desertparty
The prominent faces of Samajwadi Party who had joined
Shivpal’s party PSPL were..Shadab Fatima, Raghuraj
Shakya, Veerpal Singh Yadav, Hariom Yadav, Rajendra
Yadav, Sharda Pratap Shukla, Shivkumar Beria, Kamal
Yusuf, Rajesh Yadav, Deepak Mishra, Mohammad Shahid
and Bhagwati Singh. Of these, Shahid and Bhagwati
Singh have passed away.
PROMINENT SP FACES IN PSPL
PSPL president Shivpal Singh Yadav blows a conch during his
‘Samajik Parivartan Yatra’ in Vrindavan. —FILE PHOTO
AAP MP Sanjay Singh speaking to the media in Noida on Tuesday.
—PTI PHOTO
ELECTION HEAT
BJP MP and actor Ravi Kishen at an election campaign roadshow in Ghaziabad on Tuesday.
Former Kanpur Police
Commissioner Asim Arun
Sibal, appearing
for Khan told SC
that bail plea
was not being
taken up for the
last 3-4 months
despite repeated
hearing requests Yogi failed to manage C-19, his
language ‘chauraha chhap’: AAP
This kind of in-
decent language
for an elected
CM reflects that
Adityanath ji might
have unfortunately
become the CM of
UP but he speaks
like a ‘chauraha
chhap neta’
—SANJAY SINGH AAP
@SanjayAzadSln
Asim Arun seeks crowd-funding for election
—PHOTO
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me in this field. Even
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as my career, even I
am shocked that I have
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and joined this world
of glamour.
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yourself in the fu-
ture?
I want to be a suc-
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fashion world, which
is full of glamour and
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known as the girl
with a golden
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kind and help-
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a chance I
want to
serve my
country as
well.
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would you be?
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nce writer Amitav
Ghosh told an in-
terview that he
didn’t believe in
the concept of
‘identity’, as every
person had multi-
ple identities. One couldn’t
restrict an individual with-
in an identity typecast and
see him from that prism of
exclusiveness.
Ghosh’s prem-
ise cannot be
more appro-
p r i a t e l y
suitable on any other than
the legend Lata Man-
geshkar. The lady in her
lifetime outgrew her iden-
tity as a playback singer
and stood tall as a cult fig-
ure of personal grace that
was as influential as her
musical genius.
The Indian art universe
is replete with artists of ex-
cellence but few have been
revered the way Lata Man-
geshkar had been through-
out her life. This is because
Lata Mangeshkar was seen
as an icon beyond music
and there was an intrinsic
beauty about her character
that only enhanced the
aura around her celebrity
status drawn from her cin-
ematic oeuvre.
We love our stars for what
they are and most of their
off-screen charm emanates
from their star status. We
want to see them in their
personal life and hear their
backyard stories because
they are stars. But for Lata
Mangeshkar, her star status
was different from her so-
briety, perhaps because in
her humbleness, she never
considered herself a star.
‘75% of what I am is just
god-gifted,’ was her custom-
ary coy refrain, wherein she
downplayed the fact that
her talent was a testimony
of years of extreme hard
work, patience and disci-
pline of rigour that silently
worked day and night be-
hind the veil of glamour.
Lata Mangeshkar
rose through the
ranks not because
of her passion to be
a star singer, but
because of com-
pulsion that her
circumstances
created. She only
did what she did
best because she
didn’t know what
else to do to make
ends meet. She
slogged and struggled to
find a footing amid the il-
lustrious stalwarts like
Noor Jehan and Suraiya
among others. Nothing
came to her on a platter and
insults and ignominy were
part of her daily struggle to
survive. As it is said, adver-
sities are the test of true
mettle of a person and her
struggles made her resolute
and strong, which lent a
unique force to her charac-
ter that compelled people to
takenoteandgetinfluenced.
Playback singers hardly
command adulation for
their face value and there is
a whole India in the hinter-
lands that still believes the
stars actually sing the songs
on screen. The idea of some-
one play backing is alien to
many. It is thus a wonder
how, despite her conspicu-
ously unassuming demean-
our and simplistic persona
devoid of any extraneous
embellishments, she could
inspire and shape genera-
tions for over six decades.
Her stage antics were al-
most nil and in an era when
singers are propped by a
plethora of glitzy accompa-
niments to set up the right
mood and frenzy, she was
perhaps the lone singer who
could make a whole audi-
ence dumbstruck by just
standing in front of the mic.
Such was the import of her
character and charisma.
There can be disputes
and debates on her musical
characteristics with people
of different aural prefer-
ences choosing according
to their predilections and
musical attunement, but all
assessments fall silent
when one comes face to face
with her elegance – an ele-
gance evoking a calmness
that can only come from a
deep awareness of the cos-
mic rhythm within.
The seriousness that went
into her work, the insatiable
thirst she had for perfection,
that made her a lifelong
learner, took the whole art
of playback singing a notch
or two above and amplified
the value of the profession.
Generations of female play-
back singers of varied de-
grees of excellence have
come, survived, flourished
and vanished. Millions will
come and go. But the cult of
Lata Mangeshkar survives
and will continue to do so,
not just because of her mel-
lifluous music, but also be-
cause of the incarnation of
Maa Saraswati that she had
come to be worshipped as.
ETC
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10
ANUPAM PUROHIT
N
ot Every Human
has the ability to
impact a thousand
lives in a single
lifetime. I agree that innu-
merable posts won’t be
enough to register in
words the exact frame for
the personality of ‘The
Lata Mangeshkar Ji’
having a musical back-
ground, I couldn’t resist
but pen down my feelings
towards her. I guess the
dictionary fails to give
words to justify the per-
sona and contribution of
a legendary singer like
her but in my simple
words as a fan. Every girl
entering her adolescence
has to go through ‘MERE
KHAWABO MAI JO
AAYE’. Every love story
goes through a phase
‘YEH KAHA AA GAYE
HUM’. Every Rajasthani
girl in a long-distance
courtship has to hear,
‘MORNI BAGA MA BOLE
AADI RAAT MA’
Every girl falling for
love at the first site has to
hear ‘TUNE OHH RANG-
EELE KESA JAADU
KIYA..PIYA PIYA BOLE
MATWALA JIYA’
Every Janmashtami
will be incomplete with-
out ‘MOHE PANGHAT
PE NANAD LAAL CHE-
DE GYO RE’. Every girl
in the world has a phase
of ‘KAL BHI SOORAJ NI-
KALEGA KAL BHI
PANCHI GAYENGE, SAB
TUJHKO DIKHAI
DENGE, PAR HUM NA
NAZAR AAYEGE.” Eve-
ry newly married girl
goes through ‘DIL DEE-
WANA BIN SAJNA K
MANE NAA.’ Every
mourner of a loved one
passing away has ‘CHIT-
THI NAA KOI SAND-
ESH, JAANE WOH KA-
UNSA DESH.’ Every
Long lasted beautiful re-
lationship goes through
‘MAI NAA RAHUGI TUM
RAHOGE PHIR BHI RA-
HEGI NISHANIYAN.’
So, in my opinion, she
was not a person. Lata
Mangeshkar Ji is an im-
mortal feeling, a feeling
that is imbibed in my
heart and the hearts of
millions like me.
A FOREVER FAN TILL I DIE .......
The legacy of the ‘Lata’ cult
can only be Lata herself
DIPTIMAN CHAKRABORTY
diptiman2000@gmail.com
The writer is a music
aficionado and a senior
journalist with First India. He
has been writing on diverse
topics related to art and
culture for various English
newspapers, magazines and
websites for over 15 years.
O
—PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO

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