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E xactly a month from now, BJP-ruled Maharashtra and Haryana will go to polls — the first election since the Lok Sabha elections and the Government’s key decisions on Article 370 and triple talaq. While the polls in the two States will be held on October 21, the counting of votes will be held on October 24. The term of the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly ends on November 9 and that of the 90-member Haryana Assembly expires on November 2. The dates for Jharkhand Assembly polls will be announced later. Faced with a string of high- profile desertions from their camps to the ruling combine in Maharashtra, the Congress and the NCP have joined hands once again after five years and have stitched up a seat-sharing deal in their bid to stop the BJP- Shiv Sena from returning to power. But then, the BJP and the Shiv Sena too have come together after 2014 to ensure they retain power. The two saf- fron parties are likely to announce their seat-sharing deal this week. The Congress and the NCP had been in power for three consecutive terms before they lost to the BJP-Sena combine in 2014. In Haryana, the Congress is exploring a tie-up with the BSP, which has announced its intentions to go it alone and is also cut up with the principal Opposition party for having engineered a defection of six of its MLAs to join its camp in Rajasthan. In both the States, the BJP is expected to espouse the cause of nationalism among the masses by pitching its “strong” decision to abrogate the special status to Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370. It would also point to its another “bold” decision of banning the triple talaq practice among Muslims to reach out to the women from the minority community. Soon after the announce- ment of the poll schedule, leaders of the ruling coalition exuded confidence of winning a second consecutive term in Maharashtra with Devendra Fadnavis asserting he will be back as the Chief Minister. State BJP chief Chandrakant Patil said given the response to the “Mahajanadesh Yatra” of Fadnavis, the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is likely to get more than 220 seats. With the BJP taking centre stage even in the Lok Sabha polls contested in 2014 and 2019, the Congress’ hold in its strongholds of Vidarbha, Marathwada and Mumbai region has weakened. Similarly, the NCP is struggling to retain its pocket-borough of western Maharashtra. The Shiv Sena has retained its base in Konkan. The BJP and the Shiv Sena had swept the Lok Sabha polls in the State winning 41 of the total 48 seats. The NCP and the Congress won only five seats among them. The Congress and the NCP have decided to contest 125 seats each out of the total 288 seats in the polls. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi would again be the main face of the BJP poll campaign in Maharashtra, the Congress-NCP are taking up issues of farmers’ suicide, agrar- ian crisis and the rising graph of unemployment, highest in last 40 years, as its main attack- ing points against the BJP- Sena alliance in the State. In contrast, the BJP, which has netted a number of NCP leaders, has attacked Sharad Pawar, saying his period of dominance is over. “Breaking and making parties” kind of politics practiced by the NCP chief is now catching up with his party with the passage of time, said Fadnavis in Mumbai, stepping up his campaign. The BJP, which won 122 seats in the 2014 Assembly polls, had a vote share of 27.81 per cent, well ahead of the Congress’ 17.95 per cent. I ndian-Americans in Houston are all set to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the mega “Howdy, Modi” event on Sunday, to be attended by 50,000 audience, the largest gathering ever for an elected foreign leader visiting the US, other than the Pope. The three-hour “Howdy, Modi!” event in which President Donald Trump will join Prime Minister Modi is being organised at the sprawl- ing NRG Football Stadium, with an impressive history of shows that starred Beyonce, Metallica, U2. Indian Ambassador Harsh V Shringla previewed the event at NRG Stadium, where prepa- rations were in full swing with over 1,500 volunteers working round the clock to make it a memorable event. Meanwhile, the US and India are racing to negotiate a limited trade deal that Trump Modi can sign at the UNGA in New York, people familiar with the talks said. A car rally was organised at the NRG stadium, where more than 200 cars par- ticipated, fluttering flags of both India and the US to sig- nify the friendship between the the two countries. T he Chandrayaan-2 orbiter’s ensemble of eight scientif- ic instruments is performing very well and is expected to continue its stellar work for about seven and a half years, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said on Saturday. As the prospects of re- establishing contact with “Vikram” lander have virtual- ly ended after the conclusion of 14 Earth days, ISRO said it will take up a study to ascertain what exactly happened to it. Sivan said after Chandrayaan, ISRO’s next pri- ority is Gaganyaan mission. “We have set a target of achieving it by December 2020; and the second unmanned mission is targeted in July 2021. By December 2021, an Indian will first be carried by our own rocket to space,” Sivan said. Z oya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy”, featuring Ranveer Singh as an aspiring rapper, has been selected as India’s official entry in the International Feature Film category at the Oscars, the Film Federation of India (FFI) announced on Saturday. “India’s official entry for Oscars this year is ‘Gully Boy’. There were 27 films in the run- ning this year but it was an unanimous decision to select ‘Gully Boy’,” FFI secretary gen- eral Supran Sen told PTI. The movie, which was released across the country on February 14, also features Alia Bhatt, Vijay Raaz, Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi, and Vijay Varma. Ranveer said it is a proud moment for the entire team. I n a bid to prevent a wildlife smuggler of West Bengal from claiming ownership of three chimpanzees and four marmosets (long-tailed South American monkeys) recovered from him, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has, for the first time, attached the endan- gered animals under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The wild animals have been kept in Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata. ED sources said smuggler Supradip Guha will be probed under the money laundering case. The ED said the first-of-its- kind attachment under the PMLA “enabled” zoo authori- ties to retain the animals as the smuggler was trying to take them away on forged papers. An attachment by the ED renders an asset out of bounds for its owner and it can be further confiscated by the agency after the Adjudicating Authority of the PMLA, a quasi-judicial body, approves the attachment with- in 180 days of seizure. T he Election Commission on Saturday announced the bypolls for 64 Assembly seats spread across 17 States and Union Territory of Puducherry, besides the Samastipur Lok Sabha con- stituency in Bihar. The bypolls will be held along with Assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra on October 21. Karnataka, where resig- nations of 17 rebel MLAs led to the collapse of the JDS- Congress Government in July, will see bypolls on 15 seats. Detailed report on P5

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Exactly a month from now,BJP-ruled Maharashtra and

Haryana will go to polls — thefirst election since the LokSabha elections and theGovernment’s key decisionson Article 370 and triple talaq.

While the polls in the twoStates will be held on October21, the counting of votes will beheld on October 24. The termof the 288-memberMaharashtra Assembly endson November 9 and that of the90-member Haryana Assemblyexpires on November 2. Thedates for Jharkhand Assemblypolls will be announced later.

Faced with a string of high-profile desertions from theircamps to the ruling combine inMaharashtra, the Congress andthe NCP have joined handsonce again after five years andhave stitched up a seat-sharingdeal in their bid to stop the BJP-Shiv Sena from returning topower. But then, the BJP andthe Shiv Sena too have cometogether after 2014 to ensurethey retain power. The two saf-fron parties are likely toannounce their seat-sharingdeal this week. The Congressand the NCP had been inpower for three consecutiveterms before they lost to theBJP-Sena combine in 2014.

In Haryana, the Congressis exploring a tie-up with the

BSP, which has announced itsintentions to go it alone and isalso cut up with the principalOpposition party for havingengineered a defection of six ofits MLAs to join its camp inRajasthan.

In both the States, the BJPis expected to espouse thecause of nationalism among themasses by pitching its “strong”decision to abrogate the specialstatus to Jammu & Kashmirunder Article 370. It would alsopoint to its another “bold”decision of banning the tripletalaq practice among Muslimsto reach out to the women fromthe minority community.

Soon after the announce-ment of the poll schedule,leaders of the ruling coalitionexuded confidence of winninga second consecutive term inMaharashtra with DevendraFadnavis asserting he will beback as the Chief Minister. StateBJP chief Chandrakant Patilsaid given the response to the“Mahajanadesh Yatra” ofFadnavis, the BJP-Shiv Senaalliance is likely to get morethan 220 seats.

With the BJP taking centrestage even in the Lok Sabhapolls contested in 2014 and2019, the Congress’ hold in itsstrongholds of Vidarbha,Marathwada and Mumbairegion has weakened. Similarly,the NCP is struggling to retainits pocket-borough of western

Maharashtra. The Shiv Senahas retained its base in Konkan.

The BJP and the Shiv Senahad swept the Lok Sabha pollsin the State winning 41 of thetotal 48 seats. The NCP and theCongress won only five seats

among them. The Congressand the NCP have decided tocontest 125 seats each out of thetotal 288 seats in the polls.

While Prime MinisterNarendra Modi would again bethe main face of the BJP poll

campaign in Maharashtra, theCongress-NCP are taking upissues of farmers’ suicide, agrar-ian crisis and the rising graphof unemployment, highest inlast 40 years, as its main attack-ing points against the BJP-Sena alliance in the State.

In contrast, the BJP, whichhas netted a number of NCPleaders, has attacked SharadPawar, saying his period ofdominance is over. “Breakingand making parties” kind ofpolitics practiced

by the NCP chief is nowcatching up with his partywith the passage of time, saidFadnavis in Mumbai, steppingup his campaign.

The BJP, which won 122seats in the 2014 Assemblypolls, had a vote share of 27.81per cent, well ahead of theCongress’ 17.95 per cent.

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Indian-Americans in Houstonare all set to welcome Prime

Minister Narendra Modi forthe mega “Howdy, Modi” eventon Sunday, to be attended by50,000 audience, the largestgathering ever for an electedforeign leader visiting the US,other than the Pope.

The three-hour “Howdy,Modi!” event in whichPresident Donald Trump willjoin Prime Minister Modi isbeing organised at the sprawl-ing NRG Football Stadium,with an impressive history ofshows that starred Beyonce,Metallica, U2.

Indian Ambassador HarshV Shringla previewed the eventat NRG Stadium, where prepa-rations were in full swing with

over 1,500 volunteers workinground the clock to make it amemorable event.

Meanwhile, the US andIndia are racing to negotiate alimited trade deal that TrumpModi can sign at the UNGA inNew York, people familiar withthe talks said.

A car rally was organised at the NRG stadium,where more than 200 cars par-ticipated, fluttering flags ofboth India and the US to sig-nify the friendship between thethe two countries.

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The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter’sensemble of eight scientif-

ic instruments is performingvery well and is expected to

continue its stellar work forabout seven and a half years,ISRO Chairman K Sivan saidon Saturday.

As the prospects of re-establishing contact with“Vikram” lander have virtual-ly ended after the conclusion of14 Earth days, ISRO said it willtake up a study to ascertainwhat exactly happened to it.

Sivan said afterChandrayaan, ISRO’s next pri-ority is Gaganyaan mission.

“We have set a target ofachieving it by December 2020;and the second unmannedmission is targeted in July2021. By December 2021, anIndian will first be carried by our own rocket to space,”Sivan said.

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Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy”,featuring Ranveer Singh as

an aspiring rapper, has beenselected as India’s official entryin the International FeatureFilm category at the Oscars, theFilm Federation of India (FFI)announced on Saturday.

“India’s official entry forOscars this year is ‘Gully Boy’.There were 27 films in the run-ning this year but it was anunanimous decision to select‘Gully Boy’,” FFI secretary gen-eral Supran Sen told PTI.

The movie, which wasreleased across the country onFebruary 14, alsofeatures Alia Bhatt, Vijay Raaz,Kalki Koechlin, SiddhantChaturvedi, and Vijay Varma.Ranveer said it is a proudmoment for the entire team.

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In a bid to prevent a wildlifesmuggler of West Bengal

from claiming ownership ofthree chimpanzees and fourmarmosets (long-tailed SouthAmerican monkeys) recoveredfrom him, the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has, for thefirst time, attached the endan-gered animals under thePrevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA).

The wild animals havebeen kept in Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata.ED sources said smugglerSupradip Guha will be probedunder the money launderingcase.

The ED said the first-of-its-kind attachment under thePMLA “enabled” zoo authori-

ties to retain the animals as thesmuggler was trying to takethem away on forged papers.

An attachment by the EDrenders an asset out of boundsfor its owner and it can be further confiscated bythe agency after theAdjudicating Authority of thePMLA, a quasi-judicial body,approves the attachment with-in 180 days of seizure.

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The Election Commissionon Saturday announced

the bypolls for 64 Assemblyseats spread across 17 Statesand Union Territory ofPuducherry, besides theSamastipur Lok Sabha con-stituency in Bihar. The bypollswill be held along withAssembly polls in Haryanaand Maharashtra on October21. Karnataka, where resig-nations of 17 rebel MLAs ledto the collapse of the JDS-Congress Government in July,will see bypolls on 15 seats.

Detailed report on P5

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From the adaptation of Hollywoodshows like Hostages, 24 to remakeslike The Office, the foreign content

which once didn’t have many takers, nowmakes for an interesting watch for theaudience. So much so that the producersare in no mood to stop experimenting orgetting inspired from the Hollywoodseries even though we have beenwatching Indian versions of theHollywood films for quite some timenow. But, the trend of remaking showsfor TV is new.

To add value to content, RomedyNow, a part of The Times Networkwhich have channels like Movies Now,MN+, has gone through a refreshedbrand identity with the introduction oforiginals, new shows and moviepremieres. The channel unveiled itsrefreshed identity with its first originalshow The Love Laugh Live Show.

Vivek Srivastava, President —Strategy and Business Head, EnglishEntertainment Cluster says that thisrefreshed identity of Romedy Now willthe re-energised content to offer viewersan unparalleled and complete EnglishEntertainment viewing experience. “TheLove Laugh Live Show marks our debutin originals and will explore variouscategories across travel, food, beauty andlifestyle, bringing two exciting shows aquarter to the viewers,” he adds.

Though there are more remakes andadaptations of foreign shows, the numberof original English content remains verylow. Srivastava has a take on this. “The

reason why makers don’t risk makingmore original English language shows isbecause of the diverse Indian audience.It will be very odd to see a show in whichall the characters speak English.Therefore, they prefer making shows witha pinch of Hindi in it. It is to retain thetraditional element and connectivitywith the audience. Also, if we are makinga show for the premium households thanEnglish can be dominant in that but if weare making a show for the masshouseholds then Hindi or regionallanguages have to be there,” he says.

There is a reason why Englishchannels are not bringing in the latestshows that air in the US. “We arebringing the latest shows as well butunfortunately what we remember are theevergreen shows. Also it takes a lot oftime for the foreign shows to get

registered in India. But yes, at this pointof time, the classic works better than thenew shows,” Srivastava tells you.

The market penetration for theseshows at present is the Tier-I cities butthis is about to change. “We are nowplanning to penetrate into Tier-II and IIIcities as well,” he says.

But, will they work as good as in Tier-I cities? “If a film like The Lion King cando so well in the Tier-II and -III cities,then I see no reason that these shows willnot do good in them. The audience ischanging and is opening up for newercontent. I believe they will do better,” hetells you.

And this latest fad for the Englishentertainment content is not going to endanytime soon. “English entertainmenthas long way to go. We are the secondlargest English speaking country withabout 10 per cent English speakingpopulation, which means the language isset to grow. The choice of content hasbecome far more global and the audiencewill start consuming this content at agreater rate soon.

“Apart from the English channelswhich have been promoting the Englishcontent aggressively from the past fewyears, there are some digital mediums toothat are coming up with English contentand is changing their entire offering onthe basis of some of the English shows.This in itself is an indicator that Englishcontent is here to stay,” he tells you.

The Love Laugh Live Show airs everySaturday at 9 pm.

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the last of the sizzling and iconicRambo series, The Last Blood isexpectedly reflective and a journeywrapper for Sly who has dominatedworldwide imagination in his 50-plusyears on the screen as just twocharacters: John Rambo and RockyBalboa, the latter drawing moreeyeballs if at all a comparison ismade.

As it is reflective so it isexcruciatingly violent too, perhaps tomake maximum impact or maybebecause it showcases a war wearywarrior who knows to strike onlywith utmost power. So don’t flinchwhen he yanks out a beating heartafter squaring up his legendary bladeon the villain; don’t be surprised if theatrocities on his kin are unimaginabledespite the very obvious censor cuts;don’t be surprised that the

introspection often takes over theaction which comes in late into themovie.

Sly is in a self-indulgent butbrooding mood here and jobs likepulling out people alive from atsunami have become routine forhim.

There are relationships that gethonoured, there are scars that keepgetting thrown into the screenthrough his walking nightmares andthere are plenty of one liners that arespoken by his soulful eyes.

Yes Rambo has all along been asilent type of fighter and words donot come easy to him.

Here, so engagingly ending thejourney after a young and dishy JohnRambo first launched Hollywood’srescue mission with a bandana, a bowand arrow and lots and lots ofrippling muscles showcasing thesignature vest, an aged John talksmore than he has in all the four filmsput together over a period of morethan three decades.

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Is is luck or hard work that gets one ahead inlife? Lots of people out there will tell you that itis luck. Some may say that it is sheer luck that

got them where they are today. But most wouldagree that it is a combination of both — hard workand luck — in this order. But what would one sayif someone insisted that it was only sheer hardwork that counts?

This is the backdrop of The Zoya Factor.Weave in a love story around cricket and one has awinner. Then there is the fact that Sonam K Ahujaplays characters that are light, fun and sweet to a T.She knows how to carry herself in any outfit andlook good. Here, she plays a junior copy writerwith an ad agency, thinks she is a loser, hatescricket but falls in love with the captain of theIndian team played by Dulquer Salmaan, aplayback singer who predominantly works inMalayalam cinema. There is bound ot be funmoments.

Director Abhishek Sharma, also thescreenwriter who has Parmanu: The Story ofPokhran and Tere Bin Laden, to his credit, hasdone a passable job. The good part is that hedoesn’t drag the whole luck versus hard workdebate.

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While it is absolutely wrong to compareone actor with another, more so, if thatactor happens to be a star kid, but the

truth is that there is no hall pass even if you are athird generation actor. Add to that mix the factthat your grandfather has some great movies tohis credit — Sholay, Blackmail, Dharam Veer andYadoon Ki Baaraat to name just a few — it comeseven tougher to prove your worth in the firstattempt.

Pal Pal Dil ke Paas (PPDKP) that marks thedebut of Karan Deol, Sunny Deol’s son,unfortunately fails to make the ripples that onewould expect from the son of an actor who madequite an impression with Betaab which releasedin 1983. The problem with PPDKP is not thatthis Deol kid can’t emote and his dialoguedelivery falls flat; the issue is not that he doesn’thave dhai kilo ka haath, not that he doesn’t landa few punches that need a mention here; theproblem with this movie is the storyline.

Sunny Deol, who is also the director here,needed to launch his son with a storyline thatwas fresh like the two leads who make theirentry in the industry.

Therefore, this star kid has miles to go beforehe can even make a ripple. Better luck next time!

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Amid politics that startedafter death of six persons

who allegedly died afterconsuming illicit liquor inprovisional state capitalDehradun, the police arrestedGaurav, the bootlegger who isaccused of supplying thecountry liquor that took sixlives. The SeniorSuperintendent of Police (SSP)Dehradun, Arun Mohan Joshitold media persons on Saturdaythat Gaurav, a resident ofPatharia Peer area of the citywas arrested by a team ofpolice from Ganesh temple

Kurbura on Saturday. He saidthat on the basis of theinterrogation from Gaurav, thepolice have also rounded upsome suspects in the case. Ona stern note, the SSP said thatthe police would take action onevery individual who is foundto be involved in the tragedy.He added that the police actionwould not get affected by thebackground of the culprits.The SSP claimed that theInspector in-charge of Kotwalipolice station and in-charge ofpolice post, Dhara chowki weresuspended so that theinvestigation remainsunaffected.

It is worth mentioninghere that one of the survivorsof the hooch tragedy hadinformed the police that theyhad purchased the countryliquor from Gaurav. In theinterrogation Gaurav said that

he either purchases the liquorfrom the government shop orgets it from one Raju alias RajaNegi and sell it on profit.

He also revealed that he inpast had purchased liquorfrom Ajay Sonkar aliasGhonchu. IncidentallyGhonchu is a formerCouncillor and at presentassociated with a politicalparty.

Meanwhile the shops ofthe l iquor in Dehradunremained closed for secondday on Saturday.

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The post mortem of thedead in the Hooch tragedy hasfound no clear reason behindthe death of the victims of theHooch tragedy. The excisedepartment and other officials

are treading cautiously on theprobable cause of the death inthe tragedy and are nowwaiting for the viscera reportof the victims to ascertain thecause of death. The additionalcommissioner excise, AjayKumar Pandey told ThePioneer the department hastaken samples from differentshops of the city. He said thatthe chances of the sale ofcontaminated liquor fromshops are very bleak. Pandeyclaimed that the victims weresaid to be suffering from feverand this angle is also neededto be investigated.

He said that thedepartment has suspendedexcise inspector of the area,Sujat Hussain and inspectorenforcement Manohar SinghPatiyal in the case. He hintedthat some more heads mayroll in the case.

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The Congress party hasseverely castigated the BJP

government of Uttarakhandfor the illicit liquor tragedy inthe state capital. The VicePresident of the Congress party,Surya Kant Dhasmana has

alleged that in Uttarakhand theleaders of ruling party areproviding protection to theillegal business of illicit liquor.Launching a scathing attack onthe state government, he saidthat one can understand thesituation in other parts of thestate when a tragedy has struck

in an area that is hardly 500meters from the residence ofChief Minister of the State. OnSaturday, Dhasmana visitedthe Patharia Peer area and metthe families of victims.

He claimed that somemore people in the area havefallen ill. Dhasmana said that

one person in the area has diedunder suspicious conditions.He demanded that the stategovernment should destroythe entire network of illicitliquor in Uttarakhand failingwhich the Congress partywould start a massive agitationin the State.

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Terming the allegations ofCongress on the Hooch

tragedy baseless, the media incharge of the state unit of BJP,Devendra Bhasin has said thatthe opposition party shouldrefrain from engaging inpolitics over the dead bodies ofvictims.

He said that the tragedywhich has taken a toll on sixlives is very unfortunate.

Bhasin said that the partyis solidly with the strict action

taken by the Chief MinisterTrivendra Singh Rawat on theissue and no one who isinvolved in the case would bespared.

He added that thebackground of the accusedwould not affect the punitiveaction in the case. Bhasintermed the suspension of theofficials of police and excisedepartment as a correct step

and said that the legal actionwould be taken against allthose involved in the case.The BJP leader negated theallegations of Congress partyand said that the party shouldremember the actions of thegovernments ruled by it andthe protection provided bythe congress leaders to theillicit trade of liquor in thestate.

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The constitution of newmunicipal bodies in

Uttarakhand has resulted indecrease in numerical strengthof the panchayatrepresentatives and voters inthe three tier panchayat rajsystem. In the ensuingpanchayat elections, a total of4311423 voters would exercisetheir franchise, this figure whencompared with the totalelectorate of 4694689 in thepanchayat elections of 2014means that the Panchayatshave lost 383266 voters inthese last five years.

In the 2014 panchayatelections, 2313900 female and2377103 male voters wereregistered in 12 districts (barring Haridwar), 89 blocksand 7657 village Panchayats. Inthis elections 49337 villagePanchayats members, 7657Pradhans, 3054 members ofBlock Panchayat and 389members of District Panchayatwere elected.

In the ensuing panchayatelections, 2105093 female and2206330 male votes are eligibleto cast their votes in 7485village panchayats in 89 blocksof 12 districts. The ruralelectorate would elect 55574village Panchayats members,7485 Pradhans, 2984 membersof Block Panchayat and 356District Panchayat members.

The decrease in number ofrural electorate has occurreddue to delimitation of themunicipal bodies and creationof new municipalities. In 2017,Uttarakhand had a total of 78municipal bodies that includedsix municipal corporations, 31municipal councils and 41Nagar Panchayats.

The state now has 93municipal bodies whichinclude eight municipal

corporations.The tenure of Panchayats

in all the districts ofUttarakhand barring Haridwarended in July this yearafter which the StateGovernment hasappointed administratorsin the Panchayats.

The elections in thethree tier panchayat rajsystem in Uttarakhandwould be held in threestages. In the first stage, thevoting would be held onOctober 5 while the secondand third stage of votingwould be held on October11 and 16 respectively. Thecounting of votes wouldstart at 8 AM on October21 and the results areexpected to be declaredon the same day. One of aspecial feature of theseelections is that the EVMswould not be used by thecommission. The stateelection commission woulduse traditional ballotpapers in these elections.

Meanwhile clearingthe confusion on theeligibility of the peoplehaving more than twochildren to contest thepanchayat elections, thestate election commissionhas sent advisory to alldistrict magistrates askingthem to accept thecandidature of all thecontestants. Reversing theprovision of UttarakhandPanchayat Raj(amendment) act-2019,the Uttarakhand HighCourt (HC) in a landmarkdecision had ruled thatthe candidates havingmore than two childrenbefore to July 25, 2019 areeligible to contest thepanchayat elections. OnSaturday a delegation of

the Uttarakhand PanchayatJan Adhikar Manch led by itsconvener Jot Singh Bisht metthe secretary, state election

commission Rohan Lal andrequested that the order of HCshould be implementedcompletely.

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On the occasion of 15thfoundation day of

Uttarakhand Space ApplicationCentre (USAC), a one daycapacity building training of theofficials of the Agriculturaldepartment on ‘Utilisation ofGeospatial Technology inAgriculture and Horticulturesector’ was organised onSaturday. Speaking on theoccasion, the director of theUSAC, M P S Bisht said that inits journey of 15 years, the centrehas successfully completed manyimportant projects assigned bythe state government to it. Hesaid that in the workshop theagriculture department officialswould be informed about the useof the remote sensing and GIStechniques in pre harvestingand post harvesting assessment

of production of crops. Heexpressed concern on decline inthe area under crops in themountainous regions of the state.

The bio diversity advisor ofChief Minister of Sikkim,Hemant Kumar Badola said thatin recent years the internationaldemand of the traditionalagricultural producers ofmountainous areas hasincreased.

The representative of theMahalanobis National CropForecast Centre (MNCFC), NewDelhi, Seema Sehgal gave apresentation of the cropforecasting by using remotesensing techniques.

The scientist of IndianInstitute of Remote Sensing(IIRS), Abhishek Dandoliainformed about use of remotesensing and geospatialtechniques in mapping andassessment of crops.

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It will be a battle betweennational issues versus local

issues in Haryana. Ruling BJPin the state will go to theOctober 21 polls with the slo-gan of "delivery" of long pend-ing issues by the NarendraModi government at the Centrewhile for Congress and otherregional parties in the fray, itwill be local issues with whichthey will try to woo the elec-torate.

BJP has given a slogan"Mission 75 plus" in the stateeven as the Opposition dubs itas a mere slogan devoid ofground realities. They alsoridicule the BJP for milkingnational issues to the hilt say-ing the party has performedmiserably in the state and hasnothing to bank on exceptissues like abrogation of Article370 in Jammu and Kashmir,NRC in Assam and triple talaq.

The five years of ManoharLal Khattar government in thestate has been uneventfuldespite the government boast-ing of "unprecedented devel-opment in every nook andcorner" of the state without anyregional discrimination. AsHaryana has been a well gov-erned state for a while, politi-cal observers find little merit inBJP's argument of sustained

development. "There was pre-cious little to do in Haryanaas the state had alreadytouched all the developmen-tal parameters when BJP cameto power," said a seniorHaryana watcher. He addedthat it was only "cosmeticchanges" with a road here anda railway line there type ofapproach of the government.

Of course, educated elect-ed panchayats became a real-ity with the Khattar govern-ment setting educationalstandards for the election ofvillage panchyats. Then, anybig ticket corruption has beenruled out in the five years as theRSS pracharak Khattarassumed office due to the bless-ings of Modi and he did nothave any family or high com-mand baggage to cater to.

As only a month is left forthe October 21 battle, it is clearthat the main battle this timeround will be between the BJPand Congress. While the mainopposition of 2014, INLD haspractically withered away, itsplace has been taken by theJannayak Janata Party (JJP) tosome extent. However, being anassembly elections where theinterplay of caste, communityand region would be muchmore than Lok Sabha polls, JJPand INLD candidates could bethe spoilers in several con-stituencies. However, ask any

Haryana expert and they willtell you that the fight is basicallyfor the third position and theJJP seems to be inching its wayto achieve it.

Of course parties like BSP,AAP and Swaraj India partywill be in the fray but at presentit seems to be more of a statis-tical presence rather than anelectoral one as they are devoidof grassroots level support.

Not happy with the BJPraising issues like Article 370,Triple Talaq, NRC, etc, theopposition is targeting theparty on recordUnemployment, economic cri-sis in the state as well as thecountry, farmer distress, dis-satisfied government employ-ees and also under-perfor-mance in all spheres of gover-nance.

In its publicityblitzkrieg and the cam-paign before the modelcode of conduct came intoforce, the ruling party con-sistently focused on trans-parency in governancethrough e-governance ini-tiatives, zero tolerance forcorruption, giving jobs onmerit, etc.

BJP is on a front footand in upbeat mood as itselectoral and caste engi-neering arithmetic hasreaped big dividends for

the party as the results of2019 general election indicat-ed. The party won all the 10Lok Sabha seats in the state,something which was unthink-able not long ago. Despite hav-ing little support from thedominant Jat community, BJPgalvanized all non-Jat com-munities like never before andwon by a record margin--scor-ing what is called in gymnas-tic parlance as a "perfect ten".

Given the strong presenceof BJP nationally and its spreadat the grassroots level in thestate, political experts say thatthe Jat community had arethink and a section is in amood to support the partythis time round provided it getsadequate representation in theticket distribution exercise."Initially, it was difficult for theJat community to reconcile

with the fact that a non-Jat(Khattar) would be the chiefminister. But that was thetrump card of BJP. Having theentire non-Jat castes on itsside, BJP is inching towardsgetting the support of the dom-inant Jat community as welland that does not augur well forthe Opposition," said a sea-soned Haryana expert.

Though Congress haspulled up its socks after adivided house all these monthsand years since it lost power inOctober 2014, it is yet to finda winning formula. After SoniaGandhi became the WorkingPresident of the party, shebrought in the duo of Selja asstate party chief and BhupinderSingh Hooda as Leader of theCLP and practically the chiefministerial face of the party.The move has brought insmiles on the faces of oldCongress workers as they knowthat Hooda's networking skillswill help rope in sulking work-ers and groups.

Intense factional rivalrywithing the Congress has cometo an end for now. Thoughsacked Haryana Congress chiefAshok Tanwar is sulking, he isnot in any position to harm theinterests of party. Appointmentof Kiran Choudhary as head ofelection manifesto committeetoo would help the cause of theCongress as the woman leader

from the family of ChaudharyBansi Lal, is expected to par-ticipate whole-heartedly in thecampaign now.

Given the strong presenceof BJP nationally and its spreadat the grassroots level in thestate, political experts say thatthe Jat community had arethink and a section is in amood to support the partythis time round provided it getsadequate representation in theticket distribution exercise."Initially, it was difficult for theJat community to reconcilewith the fact that a non-Jat(Khattar) would be the chiefminister. But that was thetrump card of BJP. Having theentire non-Jat castes on itsside, BJP is inching towardsgetting the support of the dom-inant Jat community as welland that does not augur well forthe Opposition," said a sea-

soned Haryana expertCongress chief ministerial

aspirant Bhupinder SinghHooda does not refer to Modior central government at all inhis speeches and supports BJPon Article 370 but also says localissues are extremely important.He keeps on hammering thepoint that the Khattar govern-ment has failed to deliver.

Since the last elections, thebiggest shock has been for themain opposition INLD whichhas suffered a series of setbacksafter its split because of a feudin the Chautala family. Most ofINLD''s sitting MLAs andprominent leaders haveswitched over to the BJP andsome to the Congress ahead ofpolls. Party patriarch OmPrakash Chautala is in jail andso is his son Ajay Chautala,triggering a series of allegationsand counter allegations within

the family.For BJP keeping all the new

comers in good humour andgiving them tickets would be aherculean task. There havebeen so many lateral entries inthe BJP that it would find it dif-ficult to accommodate them inits ticket distribution exercise.It is a classic case of problem ofplenty and is bound to hurt itif some of them join other par-ties at the last moment ifdenied party tickets.

In the 2014 elections, BJPwon 47 seats and later won theby-poll of Jind, taking its tallyto 48. INLD had won 19 seatsthough several of them laterswitched over to BJP. Congressmanaged to win 17, BSP one,independents five and SAD onein the last assembly. This time,is is "Mission 75+" of BJP ver-sus "tried and tested" formulaof Congress.

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All necessary arrangementsfor the polls in Haryana

has been made for free, fairand transparent elections,Chief Electoral Officer,Haryana Anurag Agarwal saidon Saturday.

Addressing a news con-ference here, Agarwal said thatwith the announcement ofelection programme byElection Commission of India(ECI), Model Code of Conducthas come into effect.

According to the schedule,notification would be issued onSeptember 27 and the last datefor filling nominations wouldbe October 4, scrutiny of nom-ination papers would be doneon October 5 and the candi-dates could withdraw theirnominations by October 7.

Agarwal said the ElectionCommission, all DeputyCommissioners and ReturningOfficers are geared up for con-ducting the elections in com-pletely transparency and eth-ical manner.

He said after the secondrevision of electoral list onAugust 27, this year, the finalvoter list has been published asper which 1.83 crore votersincluding 1.07 lakh servicevoters would exercise theirright to franchise. He said thatas the process for updating theelectoral roll in progress, thenumber of voters is expected toincrease.

The CEO said 19,442 vot-ing centres have been estab-lished in the State including5,511 in urban areas and13,931 in rural areas. There are10,288 polling locations,adding that polling stationswhere the number of voters aremore than 1500, request have

been made to the ECI forconverting these polling sta-

tions into Auxiliary polling sta-tions. The number of such

polling stations in the State is136.

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Soon after the ElectionCommission of India

declared Haryana polls date,state Congress President Seljasaid the party will corner theManohar Lal Khattar govern-ment on economic slowdown,unemployment and betrayalof farmers and the law andorder situation.

She said retrenchment inthe auto sector and closing ofunits have brought people closeto the Congress, adding thatmore people were joining theCongress now than those whoquit five years ago.Slamming theBJP government, she said,"Farmers and small business-man are in crisis in the state.Farmers are not getting remu-nerative prices for their produce.The rate of unemployment hasrisen in the last five years."

She said BJP promised todouble the minimum supportprice for crops, but didn't evenpurchase most of the farm pro-duce this year.Selja said whenthe government announced4,000-5,000 vacancies for thepost of clerks, around 15 lakhyouth applied, showing thatunemployment had gone up.

On law and order, she said

under the Khattar regime fivebig riots had taken place andeven drug peddling hasincreased in the districts bor-dering Punjab, affecting lawand order in the state.

On the BJP making abro-gation of Article 370 a pollplank, she said, "We have seenhow the Chief Minister(Khattar) had said that we willbring girls from Kashmir tomarry our boys. This was sucha regressive mindset", she added.

Khattar stirred a contro-versy last month when a videoof his speech went viral onsocial media in which he washeard saying, "Some people arenow saying as Kashmir is open,brides will be brought fromthere". Khattar was expressingconcern over the low sex ratioin Haryana at an event inFatehabad when he made theremark in an apparent referenceto scrapping of the special sta-tus for Jammu and Kashmir.

The State Congress partychief said that the party willgive tickets to youth, womenand experienced people. Thecandidates will be decidedsoon, she said this whileaddressing a workers’ confer-ence at Ramlila Ground inMahendragarh on Saturday.

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Almost a year after the splitin the Chautala family and

the Indian National Lok Dal(INLD), the party and itsbreakaway outfit JannayakJanta Party (JJP) will organiseits ‘Jan Samman Divas’ rally tomark the birth anniversary oftheir ideologue late Devi Lal inRohtak on Sunday.

As all efforts by Akali patri-arch and former Punjab chiefminister Parkash Singh Badaland khap panchayat leadershave failed to re-unite theChautala clan, the two partieswill go ahead with their sepa-rate events. The INLD willorganise a ‘Samman Divas’rally at Kaithal on September25.

The JJP and Former HisarMP Dushyant Chautala wouldsound a poll bugle of assemblyelections from Rohtak, thehome turf of Bhupinder SinghHooda.

Rohtak is considered astronghold of Hooda butCongress had lost the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from here.Party leader said that the JJP will hold a historic public rally in the same ground where Prime MinisterN a r e n d r a

Modi and Former CMBhupinder Singh Hooda had held the rallies.

JJP has been holding thispublic rally to commemoratethe 106th birth anniversary offormer Deputy Prime MinisterChaudhary Devi Lal. JJPnational principal general sec-retary Dr KC Bangar said that the JJP's rally would bemassive. He said people arefrustrated from BJP andCongress and JJP rally willexpose the both Modi andHooda.

He said that JJP has alreadyreleased the first list of candi-dates and the second list will be announced on September23.

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Swaraj India presidentYogendra Yadav on Saturday

said the party will raise theissue of unemployment in theAssembly election.

Presenting some new sta-tistics on unemployment, hesaid BJP must answer the pub-lic on the question of unem-ployment and other politicalparties must also come upwith alternative solutions.

Yadav announced onbehalf of his party that SwarajIndia will come up with a con-crete alternative roadmap forfull employment in comingdays. Referring to the new sta-tistics by CMIE (May-Augustreport), he revealed that thenumber of unemployed in thestate has crossed 20 lakh.

Leaving behind many otherstates with bigger populations,unemployment in Haryana hastaken shape of an epidemic, headded.Out of these, 4.5 lakhunemployed are either gradu-ate or with a higher degree,Yadav said, citing figures.

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on

Saturday appealed to the farm-ers in his state not to resort topaddy stubble burning, as amark of respect for the historic550th Prakash Parb of the firstSikh Guru.

The Happy Seedingmachines being distributed byhis government would not onlyhelp in stubble management,but also ensure increased pro-ductivity for the farmers, hetold reporters here.

He was inaugurating a two-day Pashupaalan Mela at GuruAngad Dev Veterinary andAnimal Sciences University.Singh said paddy stubble burn-ing, besides damaging the tex-ture of soil and human health,had emerged as a major envi-ronmental threat.

He called upon farmers totake full advantage of the strawmanagement machinery, whichwas being provided at 50-80

per cent subsidy. Singh said thestate had provided 28,600implements worth Rs 269.38crore to farmers during 2018-19 and 28,000 implementsworth Rs 273.80 crore would beprovided to them for paddystraw management in this fis-cal.

He also announced that thestate would develop a sugar-cane research and traininginstitute at Gurdaspur, besidesestablishing an agriculturalmarket innovation researchand intelligence centre inMohali. The centre would pro-vide necessary support andassistance to farmers in mar-keting of their diversified crops,said the Chief Minister.

Addressing farmers gath-ered here, Capt Amarinderemphasised the need to switchto crop diversification to con-serve the depleting groundwater.

He announced that thestate had already developed adiversification plan to shift

nearly 10 lakh hectares fromrice to alternate, less waterintensive crops.

Listing the initiatives forcrop diversification, he said astate-of-the-art Indian Instituteof Maize Research was beingset up at Ladhowal, while aPostgraduate Institute ofHorticulture Research andEducation was coming up inAmritsar.

With the concerted effortsof the state government tosensitise farmers about alter-native crops, the area undermaize, basmati and cotton cul-tivation had registered a con-siderable increase during thecurrent season, he said.

Water saving technologies,such as drip irrigation, werebeing popularised through 80-90 per cent subsidy in thestate, besides introduction ofthe direct benefit transfer forelectricity scheme to directlycompensate farmers who saveelectricity and thereby ground-water, he added.

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The dance of dengue in theprovisional state capital

Dehradun and nearby areas iscontinuing to haunt and harassthe people . On Saturday, thestate health department report-ed 173 new cases of the vectorborne disease in Dehradun

district. With these cases thenumber of the patients affect-ed by the disease mounted to2607 in Dehradun. The healthdepartment data shows that sixpeople in Dehradun have so farsuccumbed to the dengue.

In Nainital district, 1189patients of the disease have sobeen reported by health

authorities.The data of the depart-

ment shows that the denguehas so far affected 4075patients in the state with sevenpersons succumbing to thevirus.

The district vector bornedisease officer Subhash Joshisaid that activities like foggingand spread of insecticides arebeing undertaken apart fromspreading awareness on pre-ventive measures to be adopt-ed for the disease.

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In view of the arrival of theswine flu in Uttarakhand, the

Mahant Indiresh Hospital herehas set up a 12 bedded isolationward. The medical superin-tendent (MS) of the hospital,Dr Vinay Rai said that Dr

Jagdish Rawat of PulmonaryMedicine Department has beenappointed as the Nodal officerfor Swine Flu at the hospital. Hesaid that special guidelineshave been issued by the hospi-tal for the care and treatmentof suspected Swine Flu patients.Dr Rai said that a Swine Flu

laboratory is functional underthe Molecular Lab of the hos-pital which is the only certifiedcentre for Swine Flu (H1N1)testing from National Centrefor Disease Control (NCDC),New Delhi. He said that in thislab complete facilities of testingof Swine flu are available.

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New Delhi: The Navy hasplanned to name the seventhship in the P17A frigate seriesas 'Mahendragiri', senior offi-cials said.

The first of the sevenfrigates, christened 'Nilgiri', isslated to be launched inMumbai on September 28 inthe presence of DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh.

The first ship under P17Aborrows its name from an oldfrigate of the Navy, INS Nilgirithat was named after NilgiriHills.

Five more ships of theNilgiri-class, an upgrade ofLeander-class, were also namedafter other hill ranges of India.The six ships were built a fewdecades ago and have beendecommissioned.

These six ships were called— 'Nilgiri', 'Himgiri', 'Udaygiri','Dunagiri, 'Taragiri' and'Vindhyagiri'.

"The first P17A frigate'Nilgiri' will be launched onSeptember 28. Since, it isnamed after the previous

frigate which was part of aseries of six ships, so theremaining names will also fol-low till the sixth ship," said ViceAdmiral G Ashok Kumar, thevice chief of the Navy.

"For the seventh frigate, wehave identified one more in theseries — 'Mahendragiri'," hesaid.

He said this recently dur-ing an interactive session heldhere ahead of the commis-sioning of Navy's secondScorpene-class submarine INSKhanderi.The commissioningof 'Khanderi', launch of 'Nilgiri'and inauguration of an aircraftcarrier drydock are all sched-uled to take place onSeptember 28 in Mumbai.

The first Scorpene in aseries of six, 'Kalvari' is namedafter the first Kalvari of theNavy.The first Kalvari, com-missioned on December 8,1967, was also the first sub-marine of the Indian Navy. Itwas decommissioned on May31, 1996 after nearly threedecades of service.

The Kalvari-class sub-marines in the past were a vari-ant of Foxtrot-class submarines,four of which had served in theNavy from late 1960s onwards—'Kalvari', 'Khanderi', 'Karanj'and 'Kursura'.

"Names have a historicalbackground, and many shipshave been follow-on of someother ships in the past. So, thename is being repeated,"Kumar said.

A contract with Frenchcompany Naval Group (earliercalled DCNS) was signed in2005 for the supply of six sub-marines.

The six submarines,designed by the French navaldefence and energy company,are being built by MazagonDock Ltd in Mumbai as part ofProject-75 of the Indian Navy.

The state-of-the-art fea-tures of this Kalvari-classScorpene submarine includesuperior stealth and the abili-ty to launch attacks on theenemy using precision guidedweapon. PTI

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The Election Commission(EC) on Saturday

announced the bypolls to 64Assembly seats spread across 17States and Union Territory ofPuducherry besides theSamastipur Lok Sabha con-stituency in Bihar. The bye-elections will be held onOctober 21 and the counting ofvotes will be on October 24, thesame dates as those forHaryana and MaharashtraAssembly elections.

The Samastipur Lok Sabhaby-election was necessitateddue to the death of sitting LJPMP Ram Chandra Paswan inJuly. However, the bypoll forSatara Lok Sabha seat will notbe held along with theMaharashtra assembly elec-tions on October 21. SataraMP from NCP UdayanrajeBhosale had recently joined theBJP after resigning from theLok Sabha.

There was no word onwhen Jammu and Kashmirwould head for elections toelect its legislative body. Thestate, which will become aUnion Territory (UT) onOctober 31, has been underPresident's Rule for over ayear. Due to J&K's bifurcationinto two UTs - Jammu andKashmir and Ladakh - a delim-

itation exercise is expected tobe undertaken there.

In Karnataka, where resig-nations of 17 rebel MLAs led tothe collapse of the HDKumaraswamy-Congress coali-tion government in July, bypollswill be held in 15 seats and inUttar Pradesh, 11 constituen-cies will go to the polls. The 11UP assembly seats mostlybelong to MLAs who had wonthe Lok Sabha elections andhad resigned as members of thestate assembly.

According to the ChiefElection Commissioner (CEC)Sunil Arora, the byolls inKarnataka will be held on seats,including where sitting MLAswere disqualified recently.Asked why elections to theJharkhand Assembly were notannounced on Saturday whenthe country was discussing

simultaneous polls, Arora saidthat the issue was not yet set-tled and added that term of thestate Assembly there ends on 9January. "If the Leader of theHouse there wants to dissolvethe assembly and advance theelections, then it is a separatematter. But why should thecommission want to advanceit," he said.

Byelections will also beheld in five seats in Kerala and4 in Punjab among others.The other states are Assam (4),Bihar (5), Gujarat (4),Himachal Pradesh (2),Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu(two each) and Sikkim (3).States where assembly bypollswill be held are ArunachalPradesh, Chhattisgarh,Telangana, Madhya Pradesh,Meghalaya, Odisha andPuducherry (one seat each).

These are the first statepolls after the BJP's stunningvictory in the national electionearlier this year, clearing theway for a second term of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi. Thiswill also be the first time thatelections will be held in Assamafter the release of final citizens'list last month. By-elections willbe held in four assembly con-stituencies in the state.

The Samastipur (Bihar)Lok Sabha by-election wasnecessitated following the deathof sitting MP Ram ChandraPaswan of the Lok JanshaktiParty in July. One Lok Sabhaseat in Maharashtra is currentlyvacant but CEC Arora said itwon't go to polls along with thestate assembly elections onOctober 21.

Assembly bypolls in WestBengal are not being held nowas the state government hadcited the Durga Puja festivitiesto postpone the exercise. Theywill also not be held inUttarakhand now as panchay-at elections are already under-way and the state machinery isoccupied with the exercise,CEC Arora said. In some otherseats, by-elections are not beingheld as respective high courtsare hearing election petitionsand the matters are sub judice,he added.

In Kerala, Stakes are high

for the three major political for-mations -the ruling LeftDemocratic Front (LFD),opposition Congress-ledUnited Democratic Front(UDF) and the Bharatiya JanataParty-led National DemocraticAlliance or NDA.

The gazette notificationfor these polls will be issued onSeptember 23, last date ofnominations is September 30,date for scrutiny of nomina-tions will be done on October1, Candidatures can be with-drawn up to October 3. TheCEC said that the notificationfor the polls will be made onSeptember 27. The last date offiling nominations is October4. The scrutiny of nominationswill take place on October 5and the last date for with-drawal of nominations isOctober 7.

The EC has decided to useEVMs and VVPATs in all thepolling stations and for thisadequate numbers of EVMsand VVPATs have been keptready. As is the practice, voterswill need to carry valid identi-ty cards. Electoral PhotoIdentity cards (EPIC) shall bethe main document of identification. However, sepa-rate instructions will be issued to allow additional doc-uments for identification ofvoters.

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Over 10-crore electorate willbe eligible to cast their vote

in the coming Assembly pollsin Maharashtra and Haryanafor a total of 378 seats.

As per ElectionCommission (EC) data, thereare 1,82,98,714 voters inHaryana. Of this, 1,81,91,228are general electors and1,07,486 are service voters whowill vote for the 90 assemblyseats in the state. InMaharashtra, there are8,95,62,706 voters, of which8,94,46,211 are general electorsand 1,16,495 are service voterswho will vote for the 288Assembly seats in the state.

According to Chief ElectionCommissioner (CEC) SunilArora, a total of 19,425 pollingbooths will be set up for peopleto cast their vote in Haryana.There has been an increase of19.58 percent of polling stations,the number of station was16,244 back in 2014. Up from90,403 in 2014, the number ofpoll booths where people cancast their vote in Maharashtrahas gone up to 95,473, reflect-ing an increase of 5.61 percent.

In Maharashtra, 54 seats arereserved for ScheduledCaste/Scheduled Tribe while 17are reserved in Haryana forthem. According to the CECArora, the upper limit for expen-diture on the election campaignis Rs 28 lakh for each candidate.

Over 1.66 lakh VVPAT(voter-verified paper audit trail) machines will be used in theassembly polls in Maharashtraand Haryana. Referring to theuse of paper trail machines,Arora said that on the lines ofthe Lok Sabha polls, the com-mission has mandated thatVVPAT slips count of five ran-domly selected polling stationsin each assembly constituencyof Haryana and Maharashtrawill be done for verification ofthe result obtained from theelectronic voting machines(EVMs).

The polling stations wherethe count is taken up are select-ed by a draw of lots after the elec-tion and before counting. Thecommission also reiterated thatwhile some EVMs fail to func-tion due to "mechanical, struc-tural or physical defect" includ-ing faulty switches, broken but-ton, faulty connection, these

never record a "wrong vote".CEC Arora also said that

special security arrangementshave been made for the LWEaffected areas in Gadchiroli andGondia in Maharashtra.

Besides announcing theassembly election dates, CECArora also spoke about the envi-ronmental concern that the elec-tion campaigns bring with them.Regarding the same Arora said,"Election campaigns impose anenvironmental cost upon us.We appeal to political parties toavoid the use of plastic and useonly environment-friendly mate-rial in their campaigns." Aroraalso mentioned that the EC hasbrought down more than 5,000polling booths on the groundfloor from the first or second-floor level on the request of sev-eral political parties fromMaharashtra.

According to the CEC,both Haryana and Maharashtraare sound-fitting in terms ofpoll preparation. "All types arearrangements are being madefor the voters. Candidates willrequire to fill all the columns intheir poll form. The ElectionCommission is privileged toplay a role in democracy."

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The Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh (RSS), which, in a

way, celebrates bachelorhood asmost of its ‘pracharaks’ keep offconjugal lives, has conducted asurvey that claims that marriedwomen are "happier" thanthose in live-in relationships. Itsfindings will be released onTuesday.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwatwill release the survey, con-ducted by a Sangh-linked orga-nization ‘Drishti StreeAdhyayan PrabodhanKendra’(DSAPK) based inPune, Maharashtra.

The findings of the surveywere discussed at the RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh's coordi-nation meeting in Pushkar ear-lier this month, sources in the

RSS said. The Supreme Court has

ruled that any couple livingtogether for a long term will bepresumed as legally marriedunless proved otherwise. It hasalso allowed physical relation-ship between two grown-ups aslegal. It was earlier used to becategorized as adultery.

As per the survey, marriedwomen have a very high levelof happiness, whereas the levelof happiness was lowest in

women in live-in relation-ships.

The findings of the surveywill be released after Bhagwat'sinteraction with the foreignmedia.

RSS publicity in-chargeArun Kumar in an officialstatement released on Saturdaysaid Bhagwat's interaction withthe foreign media is a routineexercise.

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Aiming to further consoli-date maritime cooperation

between the two countries,Navy Chief Admiral KarambirSingh on Saturday began afour-day-long visit toBangladesh.

During the visit, AdmiralSingh will hold extensive talkswith his Bangladeshi counter-part Admiral AurangzebChowdhury, besides meetingthe other service chiefs andsenior military officials, theIndian Navy said.

Sources said the two navychiefs are expected to deliber-ate on regional security scenarioincluding China's growing for-ays into the Indian Oceanregion and its military assertive-ness in the South China Sea.

"The visit is intended toconsolidate and enhance thebilateral maritime relationsbetween India and Bangladesh,"

a Navy statement said.Admiral Singh will visit

several key military establish-ments including the KhulnaShipyard Limited, Bangladesh'snaval bases in Chattogram andKhulna and address cadets atthe Bangladesh Naval Academy(BNA).In addition, he will par-ticipate in the first anniversarycelebration of BangladeshInstitute of Maritime Researchand Development (BIMRAD),the Navy said.

The Bangladesh Navy is anactive member of Indian OceanNaval Symposium (IONS), aforum for maritime coopera-tion among navies of the littoralstates of the Indian OceanRegion.

There has been increasingcooperation between Indianand Bangladeshi navies andthey regularly engage throughstaff talks, annual defence dia-logue and other operationalinteractions.

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The Centre and the States onSaturday held detailed dis-

cussions and debated variousreforms proposed in the newNational EducationPolicy(NEP) draft that hasbeen much delayed and muchawaited.

The meeting of the HRDMinistry's Central AdvisoryBoard of Education (CABE)and Education ministers fromstates was chaired by UnionHRD Minister RameshPokhriyal 'Nishank'. The headsof autonomous organisations,vice chancellors of universities,HRD secretaries for highereducation and school educationR Subrahmanyam and RinaRay, along with senior officialsof the central and state gov-ernments also attended

Further, Nishank's deputySanjay Dhotre, Minister ofState for Culture and TourismPrahlad Singh Patel andMinister of State for YouthAffairs and Sports Kiren Rijijualso attended the meeting.

"The house had detaileddeliberations on several rec-ommendations and reformsproposed in the NEP draft.There were valuable sugges-tions given by the educationministers of states, who areequal partners in policy for-mulation and felt that theirinputs are critical so that theproposed NEP can be a catalystto achieve the goals of equitableaccess to quality educationwhile ensuring affordability ofeducation and instilling greater

accountability," a senior HRDofficial said.

Nishank said in the spirit of"cooperative federalism" boththe central and state govern-ments interacted and engagedin a healthy and enriching dia-logue to bring out a robust pol-icy that will empower ouryouth to meet the challenges ofthe 21st century.

"The government has ini-tiated a major exercise to for-mulate a National EducationPolicy that will aim to fulfil theaspiration of the youth forquality education and make ourcountry a knowledge super-power.

The extant National Policyon Education, 1986 modified in1992 required changes to meetthe contemporary and futuris-tic needs of our large youthpopulation," he said.

"Thus, this policy is beingbrought out after more thanthree decades. Massive con-sultative process over four yearshas been undertaken and thedraft NEP has been submittedby the committee.

"The meeting today wasconvened to discuss the draft so

that in the spirit of cooperativefederalism both the centraland state governments interactand engage in a healthy andenriching dialogue to bring

out a robust policy that willempower our youth to meet thechallenges of the 21st century,"the minister added.

Nishank also released theAll India Survey on HigherEducation (AISHE) 2018-19according to which the GrossEnrolment Ratio (GER) inhigher education has increasedfrom 25.8 in 2017-18 to 26.3 in2018-19 while in absoluteterms the enrolment increasedfrom 3.66 crore to 3.74 crorestudents.

"GER for SCs has alsoshown a growth from 21.8 to23.0 and STs from 15.9 to 17.2.In terms of increase in the num-ber of universities, they havegrown from 903 (2017-18) to993 (2018-19) and total higher

Education institutionsfrom 49,964 to 51,649 in thesame corresponding period.The number of facultyincreased from 13.88 lakhs to14.16 lakhs," the survey reportsaid.

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The festival season in TamilNadu got peppered on

Saturday with the ElectionCommission of India announc-ing that the bypolls from theAssembly constituencies ofVikravandi in Villupuram dis-trict and Nanguneri inKanyakumari district wouldbe held on October 21.

The by-election inVikravandi was necessitated bythe death of the sitting DMKlawmaker K Rathamani of theDMK in June 2019. Nangunericonstituency fell vacant follow-ing the resignation of VasanthKumar of the Indian NationalCongress who was elected to theLok Sabha from Kanyakimari inthe May 2019 General election.

The point being debated inTamil Nadu is whether theDMK-led UPA would be ableto continue its dream run.Though the final results in theby-polls would not create anythreat to the EdappadiPalaniswami-led AIADMKgovernment , it will be a moralebooster to the Opposition par-ties as the State is gearing up forelections to local bodies which

were due in 2016 itself .In the 234-member strong

Tamil Nadu Assembly, theAIADMK has 122 memberswhile the DMK –led Oppositionhas 109 members. M K Stalin,president , DMK, told journal-ists on Saturday that his partywould contest Vikravandi by-poll leaving Nanguneri toalliance partner Congress. TheDMK-Congress front is hopingto retain both the seats takingadvantage of recent events likethe arrest of P Chidambaram ,former union finance ministerin money laundering case andthe accidental death of Subasri,a young techie who lost her lifewhen a larger than life sizehoarding installed by a formerAIADMK municipal corpora-tion councillor in connectionwith the marriage of the latter’sson’s marriage.

Though it is more than aweek, the police had failed toarrest the culprit who is on therun. This has added to the woesof the government.

The DMK-led alliance hadswept the Lok Sabha electionfrom the State winning 38 outof the 39 seats which were atstake.

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Fresh from its spectacularperformance in the recent

Lok Sabha polls, a resurgentruling BJP-Shiv Sena alliancegoes to the MaharashtraAssembly polls scheduled forOctober 21, 2019, with a dis-tinct advantage, as it takes ona weakened, weary and some-what dispirited OppositionCongress-NCP alliance.

Ahead of the first crucialelectoral battle being after theLok Sabha polls in which itwalked away with staggering 42out of the 48 seats inMaharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Senacombine has already out-smarted the OppositionCongress-NCP alliance psy-chologically by poaching near-ly 30 of its leaders and func-tionaries, including 17 sittingMLAs, and depleting its cadresmarkedly in the run-up monthsto the polls.

The two saffron allies —which unlike the OppositionCongress and NCP that havealready wrapped up the seatpact between them — may bestruggling to arrive at anunderstanding over the sharingof seats between them. But, theBJP and Shiv Sena are a for-midable lot both on paper andon ground — in terms of bothresources and reach.

If the percentages of votespolled in the 2019 Lok Sabhapolls by the two political for-mations are any indication, theBJP and Shiv Sena — which dec-imated the Opposition — aremiles ahead of the Congress andNCP. Together, the BJP (27.59per cent) and Shiv Sena (23.29per cent) polled 50.88 per centof total votes, as against the total31.79 per cent of votes polled bythe Congress ( 16.27 per cent)and NCP (15.52 per cent).

The Congress and NCP arecontesting 125 seats each afterleaving the remaining 32 seats

to their allies. The ruling BJPand Shiv Sena are expected toink their seat-sharing deal forthe polls in the next two days.

In the 2014 polls which thesaffron alliance partners hadcontested on their respectivestrengths, the BJP had won anall-time high of 122 seats asagainst 260 out of the total 288seats it had contested. TheShiv Sena had walked awaywith 63 seats out of 282 seats ithad contested. On the otherhand, the Congress bagged 42seats out of 287 seats it hadcontested, while the NCPemerged fourth by winning 41out of 278 it had contested.

The Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi,which suffered a setback lastweek after the exit of theAsaduddin Owaisi-ledAIMIM, is contesting the 2019Assembly polls as a third front.

The Raj Thackeray-ledMNS, which had not contest-ed the Lok Sabha polls but sup-ported the Opposition parties,is yet to take a final call whetheror not to contest the Assemblypolls. The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM, Samajwadi Partyand BSP will contest the pollsin some pockets of their influ-ence.

On his part, chief ministerDevendra Fadnavis – who isleading the ruling BJP-ShivSena alliance into the Assemblypolls –is sitting pretty after hav-ing criss-crossed the state aspart of his 4000 km-long cam-paign tour ‘MahajanadeshYatra’. Youth Shiv Sena leaderAditya Thackeray, who istipped to be deputy chief min-ister in the event of the saffronalliance returning to power inthe State, has toured severalparts of the state.

On the Opposition side,NCP founder-president SharadPawar is currently touringwestern Maharashtra andMarathwada. The State

Congress leaders have beenquietly touring the state, butnot in as comprehensive man-ner as Fadnavis has done.

Upbeat as it is after itindulged in massive poachingfrom the Opposition ranks inrecent months, the BJP will inlikelihood whip up patrioticfervour in by giving nationalintegration spin to the Centre’srecent decision to abrogateArticle 370 in Jammu andKashmir, inking of which hasalready been given both by BJPnational president Amit Shahand Prime Minister duringtheir recent public meetings inMaharashtra.

Similarly, the BJP — whichthinks that it will encash on the“pro-incumbency” mood pre-vailing in the State — will go totown with its planks like mak-ing Maharashtra a drought-freestate by 2024, connecting riversin coastal Konkan region withthose in western Maharashtra,creating water grid inMarathwada region to addressthe drinking water problems,initiatives like loan waiver andcrop insurances taken by thestate government to addressfarmers’ distress and the devel-opment push it has given inurban areas, includingMumbai, Nagpur, Thane andPune, through various infraprojects including the Metroand expressways.

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Election Commission announcing dates for thebypoll in the constituency.

Though, the ruling TRS is trying to clinch theseat from the Congress and spring a surprise, thenational ruling party, BJP is leaving no stoneunturned to grab the seat, the bastion of grand oldparty. The TRS has already announced Saidi Reddyas the candidate for the seat, while a war of wordsbetween the senior leaders of Congress is reflect-

ing that party’s mood in the wake of by-elections.During December 2018 general elections, the

PCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy has retained theseat by defeating TRS’ Saidi Reddy. But subse-quently, the PCC chief contested the Lok Sabhaelection as the nominee of Congress fromNalgonda parliament seat and emerged victorious.

It prompted Uttam Kumar Reddy to tenderhis resignation as Huzurnagar MLA. Uttam’sspouse Padmavathi Reddy, who was an MLAfrom Kodad segment of the erstwhile Nalgondadistrict, lost the general elections to the TRS’Bollam Mallaiah Yadav.

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Indian boxer Amit Panghal’sphenomenal campaign in

the men’s world championshipsended with a Silver medalafter he went down to Olympicchampion Shakhobidin Zoirovof Uzbekistan in an intense52kg category final here onSaturday.

Panghal lost 0-5 but thescoreline was hardly a reflec-tion of the fight he put onagainst the more fanciedZoirov.

In the course of his stu-pendous run, the second-seed-ed Indian became the firstmale boxer from the country to

finish second in the worldevent. The nation achieved itsbest-ever medal haul of two.Commonwealth Games Silver-medallist Manish Kaushik(63kg) had signed off with aBronze after losing in the semi-finals earlier.

Once again up against ataller and more muscularopponent, Panghal gave it hisall but fell short whenit came to connectingaccurately. The AsianGames and AsianChampionships Gold-medallist nonethelessachieved a historicfeat.

In a bout that wasmostly about counter-attack,both Panghal and Zoirov werewary of each other in theopening three minutes.

The action picked up a bitin the second round andPanghal tried hard to capital-ize on his rival’s low guard.

However, in Zoirov, Panghalmet his match in pace and theUzbek had no trouble dodgingPanghal’s lunging efforts.

The final round was whenthe two boxers decided toattack each other more intense-ly and even though Panghalwas more aggressive, it wasZoirov who managed to landmore scoring blows.

The Silver heremarks a new high forthe boxer fromRohtak, who has beensimply unstoppablesince breaking intothe national scenewith a Bronze in the2017 Asian

Championships.Zoirov, despite being

unseeded here, was alwaysgoing to be a tough challengeas he also has to his creditSilver medals in the AsianGames and the AsianChampionships.

Before this year, India hadnever won more than oneBronze medal at a single editionof the world championship.

This time, India wasamong nine countries, out of atotal of 78, which had their box-ers in the finals. Uzbekistantopped the finalists count withfour boxers.

“This is a reward for theeffort that BFI (BoxingFederation of India) has putinto re-modelling the entirestructure of the sport so thatour boxers get the best of train-ing and can confidently per-form on the world stage,” BFIPresident Ajay Singh said.

“With less than a year to gofor the 2020 Olympics, theseperformances are a majorboost. BFI will ensure andencourage them in every pos-sible way so that they can carrythis form into Tokyo to bringback medals for the country,” headded.

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Reigning junior worldchampion DeepakPunia placed himself in

line for the senior world titleby reaching the 86kg finalapart from booking his TokyoOlympics quota, here onSaturday.

Competing in his maidensenior world championship,Deepak moved to the finalwith a commanding 8-2 winover Switzerland’s StefanReichmuth.

He will fight for the titleagainst 2016 Rio Olympics74kg Gold medallist HassanYazdanicharati of Irantoday. Yazdanicharatihad also won 2018Jakarta- PalembangAsian Games 86kgGold.

It has been a steadyprogress for Deepak,who won the WorldCadet title in 2016 andbecame junior worldchampion only last month inEstonia. He can now emulatedouble Olympic medallistSushil Kumar who is till nowthe only Indian to have won aWorld Championships title in2010.

The 20-year old Deepakalso ensured that India willreturn from the WorldChampionship with its bestever performance as the coun-try is now assured of fourmedals.

Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang

Punia and Ravi Dahiya havealready won a Bronze medaleach. All of them qualified forthe Tokyo Olympics as well.

Rahul Aware can make iteven better if he wins today’sBronze medal bout in the61kg non-Olympic category.He lost his semifinal bout 6-10 to Beka Lomtadze ofGeorgia.

India had returned withthree medals in 2013.

Deepak’s all-round ability— defence, attack,stamina and aware-ness on the mat —played a key role inhis memorableperformance.

“I had gen-uinely hoped for amedal andOlympic quota. So,it is a double

delight for me. My seniors likeSushil Kumar and BajrangPunia inspire me,” Deepaksaid.

“I felt a bit under pressurewhen I fought with theKazakh wrestler (in quarter-finals). He had beaten me inItaly early this year and I wasa bit apprehensive about fight-ing the home wrestler becauseof the Bajrang bout (contro-versy),” he added.

There was no action in thefirst period of the semifinal

with Deepak gaining a 1-0lead on activity clock.

In the second period,Deepak pushed outReichmuth and took the Swissdown for a 4-0 lead. He losttwo points but another take-down and expose moveclinched it for Deepak.

The 20-year-old Deepak,who trains at Chhatrasal sta-dium in Delhi, had booked thequota after prevailing 7-6 in atense semif inal againstColombia’s Carlos ArturoMendez.

With one minute to go, hewas trailing 3-6 but pulled offa takedown and then anexpose move to take 7-6 leadin the dying moments of thetense bout.

Also doing a commend-able job was Aware whoreached the Bronze medalround in the 61kg non-Olympic category after reach-ing the semifinals.

Both Deepak and Rahulovercame rough Kazakhwrestlers en route the semifi-nals.

Aware lost a pacy semifi-nal 6-10 to Beka Lomtadze ofGeorgia, the European cham-pionship Silver medallist.

Meanwhile, Jitender losthis 79kg quarterfinal whileMausam Khatri lost his firstround in 97kg to reigningOlympic champion KyleFrederick Snyder to go out ofthe championship since theiropponents failed to reach thefinals.

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Virat Kohli’s familiar exuberanceand pep talks drowned the

chatter around Rishabh Pant asIndia prepared to play South Africain the third T20 International heretoday, seeking a 2-0 series verdict.

The comprehensive seven-wicket victory in the second game,which was built on the back of afine comeback by the bowlers anda Kohli masterclass, is history nowand the team is looking for anoth-er commanding performancebefore the Test series gets under-way.

Against a fairly new-lookSouth African side that seems tolack the resources required tocounter the home team’s firepow-er, India will surely fancy theirchances of an encore, at the MChinnaswamy Stadium.

Embattled wicketkeeper-bats-man Pant could not deliver in thelast match and as he continues tostruggle with the bat, he remainsunder scrutiny.

Pant has divided opinions —many questioned his tempera-ment, shot-selection and the resul-tant slump in form — while oth-ers refused to be harsh on him con-sidering the talent that he pos-sesses.

The South Africans had noanswer to Kohli’s batting at Mohaliin the second T20I, and with thenext game being hosted at aground where he is too familiarwith, the Indian captain will beeyeing another good outing.

But before Kohli, his deputyRohit Sharma and ShikharDhawan will be standing up to the

Kagiso Rabada-led pace attackwith optimism, the size of theground only aiding stroke-makerslike the two openers.

India also have the likes of theextremely talented Shreyas Iyer intheir middle-order, followed byHardik Pandya and Ravindra

Jadeja.The Indian team management

may have taken heart from the factthat pacers such as Deepak Chaharand Navdeep Saini put their handsup in the absence of regularsJasprit Bumrah and BhuvneshwarKumar.

They may not have years ofinternational experience behindthem but the likes of WashingtonSundar, Chahar and Saini showedthat they can challenge the South

Africans.New captain Quinton de Kock

will again have to shoulder the bulkof responsibility with the bat andhe will hope for support from thelikes of David Miller and ReezaHindricks.

De Kock might have to changethe manner in which he handledhis bowlers in the second match,introducing his spinners late in theinnings despite the Indians easilytackling his fast bowlers.

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He is the first to a historicmilestone in Indian box-

ing but there was a time whenAmit Panghal would come inlast. The last to knock on thetraining halls, the last to reportback from camp leaves.

The pint-sized dynamofrom Rohtak became the firstIndian male boxer to claim aSilver medal at the WorldChampionships, which con-cluded in Ekaterinburg onSaturday.

Speaking about it, Panghal(52kg), an Asian Games andAsian Championships Gold-medallist, recalled with heartylaughter the times he “frus-trated” coaches with hisapproach, which meant care-free to him but reckless tothem.

“It’s true, I used to leave thecamp on weekends (off days),I just didn’t have the patience.The coaches used to be furiousat me but then that was me atthat time. We just didn’t haveenough chhutti (holidays) andI was always tempted to makethe most of whatever I couldmanage,” the 23-year-oldIndian Armyman said.

“Oh, we used to be sofrustrated with him. He would-n’t come back from leave ontime, wouldn’t show up fortraining on time. But then hehad this amazing eye-catchinggame, we just couldn’t havegiven up on him despite theindiscipline,” recalled nationalcoach C A Kuttappa.

The time they speak of was2016, and a year later Panghalmade quite a statement with aBronze medal on debut in theAsian Championships.

“I am so grateful to thecoaches who didn’t give up onme. Because of their patience,I began taking my game moreseriously and there came atime when I went home justonce a month, that too after thecoaches would tell me to takea break,” Panghal said.

But old habits die hard and

Kuttappa, who fondly callsPanghal bacchu (child),revealed that even at the just-concluded world championshipPanghal showed up late oncefor a training session.

“I told him to pay 1000bucks and only then we wouldlet him in,” he said with achuckle.

Panghal couldn’t helplaughing about it either but healso pointed out a majorchange in his approach.

“Now I am the last to leavethe training hall. Everyoneleaves but I keep at it, I forcethem (the coaches) to be withme even on off days for train-ing. They tell me ‘bas kar yaar,hum jaa rahe hain ab’. My atti-tude to training has changedquite a lot but even now I amharassing coaches,” he quipped.

“Earlier, I would leave (thetraining hall) without evencooling off but I am morepatient now. I wait for mybody to adapt before signingoff. I adhere to the procedurewith sincerity now,” he added.

Speaking of adapting,Panghal has had to make majoradjustments to excel in the52kg category after a stellar runin the 49kg division. Duringthe transition, he candidly con-fessed that he was unsure abouthow the change would pan outfor him.

“It hasn’t been as difficultas I first thought. But it hastaken time for me to fit in,” hesaid.

“Abhi bhi kahaan itnaadjustment huwa hai (I haven’tadjusted completely). I amonly 65 to 70 per cent there inrealising my full potential. Ihave managed to add power inmy punches to negate theheight disadvantage. It’s crucialbecause I am mostly up againsttaller guys. But I am still a workin progress,” he added.

Panghal prefers to be hum-ble about his achievementsand prefers to describe hisphenomenal rise since 2017 acombination of some luck andloads of hard work.

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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc securedpole position for the Singapore

Grand Prix on Saturday as he looksto claim a stunning hat-trick of winsafter triumphs in Belgium and Italy.

The 21-year-old willbe joined on the front rowby championship leaderLewis Hamilton in aMercedes, with Leclerc’steammate Sebastian Vettel roundingout the top three, ahead of Red Bull’sMax Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas.

Despite winning the last tworaces on power-friendly tracks,Ferrari had been given little chanceof competing under the floodlightsat the demanding 23-turn layout inSingapore.

But Leclerc and Vettel tore upthe script to gatecrash what wasexpected to be a Mercedes and RedBull party.

“I’m extremely happy abouttoday. It was a good lap but I lost ita few times,” Leclerc said after com-pleting a 1:36.217 second final lap.

“I have to thank the team. Webrought some new bits that workedproperly. I worked hard after a badFriday and today it paid off,” addedLeclerc, who recorded his fifth poleposition of the season.

Hamilton holds a 63-point leadover Bottas of Mercedes in the titlerace with seven rounds remaining.

The Briton said he would adoptan aggressive approach to today’srace in search of a ninth victory ofthe season, as he seeks a sixthworld championship.

“I don’t know where Ferraripicked up their pace but they did agreat job,” said Hamilton, wholapped in 1:36.408.

“I’m really happy to be on thefront row with them. Tomorrow we

can be aggressive.”Vettel has suffered an erratic sea-

son while his rookie teammate hasshone for the Italian team. TheGerman was quickest in the first halfof the final part of qualifying untilLeclerc and Hamilton edged pasthim.

“The final attempt should havebeen better but I was able to improverun by run. Maybe I peaked tooearly,” Vettel said.

Red Bull’s Alex Albon will startsixth on the grid, ahead of CarlosSainz, Daniel Ricciardo, NicoHulkenberg and Lando Norris.

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The 20th India-Russia Summitat Vladivostok on September4-5, 2019 marked the firstvisit by an Indian PrimeMinister, Narendra Modi, to

the Russian Far East. It placed the portcity and its surrounding region in theeye of a bold joint initiative to energise“strong, multifaceted trade and econom-ic cooperation as the foundation for fur-ther expanding the range of India-Russiarelations”.

Speaking at theJoint PressConference withPresident Putin,India’s PrimeMinister empha-sised that the part-

nership betweenIndia and Russiawas based on

“trust”. The basis for this “trust” is rootedin the first India-Russia Summit held inNew Delhi in October 2000, when thetwo countries signed a Declaration onStrategic Partnership. At that time,Russia was emerging from a decade ofpolitical and economic downturn fol-lowing the disintegration of the SovietUnion. India was emerging from thefirst phase of her momentous economicreforms. The overall objective of theIndia-Russia partnership was designedto create strategic autonomy for bothcountries.

The first summit took place afterIndia’s nuclear weapons tests of May 11-13, 1998, and newly elected PresidentPutin’s pledge on May 7, 2000 to makeRussia “a country that its citizens areproud of and is respected international-ly”. The decision taken by former IndianPrime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee andPresident Putin to institutionalise theIndia-Russia Summit mechanism annu-ally has withstood the test of time. AtVladivostok, India and Russia assertedthat in “successfully coping with the tur-bulent realities of the contemporaryworld” they have “never been and willnot be susceptible to outside influence”.

Rejecting “unilateral coercive mea-sures not based on international law,” theSummit called for “strengthening” multi-lateralism and underlined the “primacyof international law”. Prime MinisterModi said that “both countries under-stand that we need a multipolar world toachieve peace and stability”. Russia reiter-ated its support for India’s permanentmembership of the UN Security Council.At their joint press conference, bothleaders underlined the bonds that linkIndia and Russia together, with PresidentPutin highlighting the deep mutual inter-est in “each other’s culture, history andmoral values.”

The Summit consolidated twodecades of calibrated decisions by Indiaand Russia to give a forward-looking

agenda to their bilateral partnership inthree core areas — economic, energy anddefence cooperation. In each area, thetwo countries prioritised the role ofinvestments, manufacturing, employ-ment and technology as catalysts fortheir burgeoning partnership. Theyagreed to integrate innovation in hightechnology products in telecommunica-tions, pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificialintelligence and nanotechnologies intothis framework.

������������������The potential of economic coopera-

tion to strengthen the “special and privi-leged strategic partnership” betweenIndia and Russia has remained largelyuntapped, despite several initiativestaken over the past 20 years. Bilateraltrade has gradually increased from $1.5billion in 2000 to its current annual levelof about $11 billion, well short of thedeclared target of $30 billion by 2025.

The Vladivostok Summit resulted ina joint initiative to utilise the “immenseenergy of the private industry”, in PrimeMinister Modi’s words, to turn this situa-tion around. In addition to energy anddefence cooperation, the economic part-nership would target the pharmaceuti-cals, agriculture, civil aviation, railways,ship building, space, education andtourism sectors. The new strategyunveiled at Vladivostok integrates foursupportive measures to increase Russianbusiness participation in the Make inIndia programme, along with anincreased Indian business participationin investment projects in Russia.

First, a bilateral inter-governmentalagreement on the promotion and protec-tion of mutual investments is to be nego-tiated to anchor this initiative. Second,steps would be taken to address non-tar-iff barriers to bilateral trade, includingthrough broader discussions on a TradeAgreement between India and theEurasian Economic Union. Third, coor-dinating support would be rendered bythe investment offices of Russia in Indiaand India in Russia. Fourth, the India-Russia Strategic Economic Dialoguemechanism set up after the 2018 NewDelhi Summit would be geared to pro-mote “cohesive and mutually beneficialcooperation in core sectors”.

Building on the initial attempts madein 2001 to bring the states of India andprovinces of Russia into the frameworkof economic cooperation, the Summitenvisaged interaction between UttarPradesh, Gujarat, Haryana and Goa withthe 11 provinces of Russia’s Far East toprovide depth to this process. PrimeMinister Modi mentioned the “coalindustry, the diamond industry, the lum-ber industry, as well as agriculture andtourism” as the specific focus of thisinteraction, which could impact on“exploring cooperation on temporary

placement of skilled manpower fromIndia” in Russia’s Far East.

The broad vision behind India’s his-toric economic engagement at the high-est level with Russia’s Far East wasbrought out by Prime Minister Modi atthe plenary session of the EasternEconomic Forum at Vladivostok onSeptember 5, 2019. He said: “India willprovide a $1 billion line of credit to fur-ther contribute to the development of theFar East. This is the first time that we aregiving a line of credit to a particularregion of a country. My Government’sAct East Policy has actively engaged withEast Asia. Today’s announcement willprove to be the take-off point of the ActFar East policy and it is my firm beliefthat this step adds a new dimension toour economic diplomacy. We will beactive participants in the development ofthe regions of our friendly countriesaccording to their priorities.”

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Russia energy cooperation has beenIndia’s quest for energy security, andRussia’s interest in exporting its hugeenergy reserves on a long-term pre-dictable basis to India, one of the biggestimporters of energy in the world. TheVladivostok Summit discussed partner-ship in nuclear, oil and gas sectors withinthis framework, integrating it with thenew thrust on economic cooperation.

Both leaders stressed civil nuclearcooperation as an “important componentof strategic partnership”. Prime MinisterModi emphasised the significance of“localisation of nuclear power plants”with reference to the new reactors beingconstructed by Russia at Kudankulam,which will strengthen India’s nuclearreactor construction capabilities, includ-ing in manufacturing and in expandingher pool of skilled manpower. PresidentPutin highlighted bilateral cooperation inKudankulam as a “flagship joint project”and anticipated that “at least 12 Russian-designed nuclear power plants will bebuilt within the next 20 years” in India.This would provide the basis for anincrease in nuclear trade and technologi-cal cooperation between Russia andIndia, including in “joint manufacturingof equipment and fuel.” The Summit wel-comed the success of India-Russia coop-eration in constructing the RooppurNuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh,which motivated them to look at similarjoint cooperation projects for nuclearpower in third world countries.

It is significant that during the past20 years India and Russia have been ableto outline such a forward-lookingnuclear energy partnership, which is inconsonance with their international legalobligations on the peaceful uses ofnuclear energy. Russia reiterated itsstrong support to India’s membership of

the Nuclear Suppliers Group.India’s investments in the oil and gas

sector of Russia have crossed $15 billion,including her stake of $2.7 billion in theSakhalin-1 project in Russia’s Far Eastfrom 2001. Russia’s Rosneft-led consor-tium, which acquired India’s Essar Oil(since renamed as Nayara Energy) for$13 billion in 2017, is expected toexpand the capacity of India’s secondlargest oil refinery at Vadinar in Gujarat,which currently refines 20 milliontonnes of oil annually.

An agreement on Hydrocarbonscooperation for 2019-2024 wasannounced during the Summit, whichwelcomed the implementation of mutu-ally beneficial long-term partnershipsbetween India’s Consortium of Oil andGas Public Sector Undertakings andRussia’s Rosneft, and between GasAuthority of India Limited (GAIL) andRussia’s giant Gazprom. The projectsbeing implemented included Vankorneftand Taas-Yuryakh in eastern Siberia, thelocation of one of Russia’s largest oil andgas reserves, and a contract for long-termsupply of Russian Liquified Natural Gas(LNG) to India.

This approach is designed to create astrategic alignment for the supply andprocessing of Russian energy to India. Along-term predictable arrangement willmitigate the current volatility in supplyand prices in global energy supplies toIndia. The impact of this emerging align-ment will be felt in emerging partner-ships in the inland and maritime trans-portation, port modernisation and ener-gy processing sectors.

������������������President Putin accompanied Prime

Minister Modi on a tour of the Zvezdaship-building complex near Vladivostok,which enabled the two leaders to spendtwo hours together in the informal dis-cussions. This continued a practice initi-ated with their meeting in Sochi in May2018. The Russian leader’s public refer-ences to the “many Russian made ships”in the Indian Navy including the aircraftcarrier Vikramaditya and leased nuclearpowered submarine Chakra were signifi-cant markers for the Summit agreementon preparing “a framework for coopera-tion on reciprocal logistics support”.

At the Summit’s joint press confer-ence, Prime Minister Narendra Moditermed the “steps that are giving ourdefence cooperation a solid foundationof co-manufacturing” a boost to Indianindustry. President Putin emphasised theimportant role of “joint projects in India”to illustrate that “Russia does more thansupply weapons to India.”

A significant takeaway from theVladivostok Summit for future defencecooperation was the agreement for man-ufacturing spares of Russian/Soviet-ori-gin equipment in India. This agreement

represents a sustainable solution to along-standing problem that has festeredfor almost two decades on the ground.By upgrading India-Russia defence coop-eration, opening the doors for jointdevelopment and production of militaryequipment, components, and spare parts,as well as after-sales service activities, avisible economic dimension has beenadded to defence cooperation. At theheart of this new activity will be Russianparticipation through investments injoint ventures and technology in theMake in India programme, with its“spin-off” benefits for employment andtechnology diffusion.

���� ��������������������The objective of prioritising econom-

ic cooperation to boost the India-Russiapartnership will be require a supportivegeo-political framework, especially forconnectivity between India and Russia’sFar East.

The reference to an “open and inclu-sive Indo-Pacific region” in PrimeMinister Modi’s address to the EasternEconomic Forum was accompanied bythe announcement of a new maritimeroute between Chennai and Vladivostokto “increase connectivity between theregions”, which would traverse the SouthChina Sea. Despite Russia’s reported hes-itations on officially using the term“Indo-Pacific”, the Summit declaration’sreference to consultations on “integrationand development initiatives in thegreater Eurasian space and in the regionsof the Indian and Pacific Oceans”denotes an emerging strategic conver-gence between India and Russia on an“inclusive” Indo-Pacific regional strategy.This would incorporate not only mar-itime connectivity in the Pacific, but alsocritical maritime connectivity routes inthe western Indo-Pacific such as thestraits of Hormuz and the Red Sea, aswell as connectivity projects such asChabahar in Iran and emerging mar-itime routes using the Arctic.

The Summit declaration identifiedcooperation in the Arctic and cybersecurity as emerging areas for India-Russia partnership. Russia’s long experi-ence in deep sea fishing and deep-seamining could provide the building blocksfor the concept of the Blue Economy ofthe Indo-Pacific, as part of India’sSAGAR Indian Ocean strategy articulat-ed by Prime Minister Modi in March2015. Incorporating these areas into thespecial and privileged strategic partner-ship between India and Russia couldcatalyse the emergence of India as a mar-itime power.

The author was India’s Ambassador tothe United Nations (2013-2015) and

India’s Deputy Ambassador to the RussianFederation (2001-2005). He is a

Distinguished Fellow of the VivekanandaInternational Foundation, New Delhi

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A131 page book packed withshocking but well researchedfacts, data and information.That’s how “Caste As SocialCapital”, authored by Prof R

Vaidyanathan can be described. The datapainstakingly collected by ProfVaidyanathan and presented in an artic-ulate manner points at a big reservationfraud. The book is an account of howthe caste system in Indian has been dis-torted, mutilated and misinterpreted bythe self styled liberals who have takenthe gullible for a ride under the pretextof salvation and casteless society.

The modern English educationintroduced in the subcontinent byThomas Babington Macaulay during thecolonial rule of British has succeeded increating generations of Indian youth suf-fering from serious inferiority complex.They have not read Sanskrit or Kalidasaor Megha Sandesham and hence areignorant about the rich Indian heritage.For them, what matters is the manufac-tured and distorted history inculcated inthe Indian psyche by the Macaulaydesigned education. “Our Englishschools are flourishing wonderfully…The effect of this education on theHindoos is prodigious. No Hindoo, whohas received an English education, everremains sincerely attached to his reli-gion… It is my firm belief that, if ourplans of education are followed up, therewill not be a single idolater among therespectable classes in Bengal thirty yearshence…” Macaulay wrote to his father in1836. Needles to say, the modern dayIndians have done Macaulay proud byliving a life as scripted by him way backin the 1830s.

While the colonial masters aided byevangelists and proselytisers had a freerun all over the country, the great truthabout the rich cultural heritage of thisnation lies buried thousand fathomsdeep. Prof Vaidyanathan, through hisbook is trying to bring the real pictureout in the public domain.

What “Caste As Social Capital” triesto tell the readers is that despite theprotests by the Left and Liberals againstthe Indian caste system, it has moreadvantages than disadvantages. And themost shocking disclosure made by ProfVaidyanathan is that the ReservationSystem practiced in India is a big fraudperpetrated on the Hindus of India byforces which want the annihilation of theSanatana Dharma.

The Mandal Commission recom-mendations were implemented in early1990s by politicians with selfish motives.

Though there were widespread agita-tions against the recommendations that“robbed” a major chunk of seats in edu-cational institutions and governmentjobs from the merit category and placedthem at the disposal of communities cat-egorised as Scheduled Caste, ScheduledTribe, Other Backward Communitiesand Most Backward Communities, themainstream media sought to downplaythe same to suit their business interests.

How many among us remember themartyrdom of Rajiv Goswami, the NewDelhi youth who tried self immolationto protest against the then VP Singhgovernment’s decision to implement theMandal Commission Recommendations.India was not the same after the imple-mentation of those recommendations.Prof Vaidyanathan says that the recom-mendations were erred and out of syncwith reality. The quota and per cent of

reservation announced by the MandalCommission were based on flawednumbers, facts and figures. The last castecensus in India was held in 1931 and therecommendations of the Commissionwere based on the data collected in thatcensus. For more than six decades, therewere no caste census of any kind inIndia and setting apart 27 per cent quotafor OBC against the findings of the 1931census was against all norms, says theprofessor.

The government brought in reserva-tion as an act of atonement for the kindof discrimination the SC, ST and theBackwards had to allegedly suffer n thehands of the upper caste and Brahmins,so goes the argument. But a research byrenowned Gandhian, Dharampal, hasproved that there was no discriminationof any kind against the SC, ST and theOBCs at any time of the history.

“Dharampal discovered that a fairlydetailed survey of school and collegeeducation has been undertaken by theBritish administration in the erstwhileMadras Presidency Area. According tothe survey conducted between 1822 and1825 in the Madras Presidency (that is,the whole of the Indian States of TamilNadu and Andhra Pradesh, and parts ofOdissha, Kerala, Karnataka, and theunion territory of Lakshadweep), 11,575schools and 1094 colleges were then inexistence in the Presidency and the num-ber of students in them were 157, 195and 5431 respectively,” writes ProfVaidyanathan. Shudras (backward castes)constituted 70 to 80 per cent of the stu-dents in Tamil speaking areas, while theper cent of backward caste students inOriya speaking areas was 62 per cent!

Interestingly, share of the Brahminsin Tamil-speaking areas of the Madras

Presidency were a mere 13 per cent inSouth Arcot and 23 per cent in Madras.That much for the leaders who demandstill more reservation for the backward,SC and ST sections of the population!

Another report by J Dent Secretary,Fort George, dated February 21, 1825states that out of 1,88, 680 scholars in allthe collectorates of Madras Presidency,Brahmins made up 23 per cent whileShudras constituted 45 per cent.

The author has successfully demol-ished all the arguments put forward bythe political leadership justifying theneed for continuation of reservation, andthat too the most unscientific and crudeform of reservation. “The assumptionmade by the Mandal Commission basedon the 1931 Census and other parame-ters that more than 50 per cent of thepopulation belongs to OBC may not betrue any longer. The National Sample

Survey 2003 suggests that the OBCs mayonly constitute around 36 per cent of thepopulation and not 50 per cent as wasassumed earlier. If one excludes MuslimOBCs, then the figure falls to 32 percent, according to the NSS. The NationalFamily Health Statistics conducted in1998 suggests that the population ofOBCs is around 32 per cent which isfairly close to the NSS figures,” (Page 10-11, Caste As Social Capital).

While demolishing and exposing theflaws in the claims by the powerful pro-reservation lobby, Prof Vaidyanathan hasargued that the caste system in India isnot that bad and has done a lot for theeconomic and social upliftment of thepoor and the downtrodden. The days ofMarx and Engels who argued that reli-gion is the opium for the masses are longgone. The religions are alive and kicking.Caste and religions are the ultra modernsocial networking institutions, more pro-gressive and advanced than the five-starclubs we see in metropolitan cities,membership of which is a coveted hon-our for social upward mobility.

“Caste As Social Capital” is a mustread for all those who shun castes andreligion as well as for those who findsolace in them.

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they’re sorry for me. I don’tknow what to do, so I pat themgently on the thigh (ladies only)and say, ‘Don’t worry, it’ll all beokay.’ They look at me strangelyand mumble that I’m strong.

I’ve always been strong-hearted and proud of it. So am Inot sad? When I was first diag-nosed with Stage One of anaggressive type of breast cancer,I was stunned and disappointedin myself but quickly found myresolve. I chose to fight cheerful-ly, selecting the best doctors, eat-ing healthy, praying hard, send-ing out affirmations to the uni-verse, with a deep belief andfaith that I’d be okay.

Then I learnt hope was abad thing.

A year later, I was told mybreast cancer had grown backand metastasised (metastasis iswhen your cancer has spreadfrom its primary site to the restof your body; it is also calledadvanced cancer, and the jury isout on its cure.) I googled it onmy phone and to be doubly sure,on my laptop. It said the samething. Now I became unimagin-ably sad. But I bit my lip andkept my chin up in front of thetraitors (doctors) and the care-takers (family). Like every badBollywood film ever, I gulpedand told the husband that some-thing had gone into my eye. Andthen came the waterworks. Icried into the pillow, at the mir-ror, into the curtain, in theshower and to a few friends whocaught me offguard. The rest Iavoided. As much as it’s impor-tant to cry your share, I alsobelieve there’s a time to grieveand a time to snap back. Self-pity is a bottomless pit. So nowI’ve crawled out, and walk noisi-ly around the house with a shawldraped around my shoulderslike Rajesh Khanna in Anand,scolding the husband and teach-ing him for the two-hundredth

time how to fold a towel correct-ly, with the right side up. I’mpast my Dukh.

Do I have Dard? Oh yes, of all kinds that

come with an illness like thisone. But heartbreak and bikiniwax still top my list in the ‘mostpainful’ charts.

Do I have Hope? Difficult to say. It’s a long

answer. The husband says, ‘Try

starting from the conclusion.’ Ipretend I haven’t heard.

I stay on the nineteenthfloor of an apartment in Thanenow and though Ka the crowdoesn’t visit here (quite a longflight from Bandra, with all theplanes coming in the way),there’s a Crazy Cock down inthe slum nearby that crowsshrilly all day. For decency’ssake, let’s call it the Crazy

Rooster. I hear his vociferouscrowing first at the crack ofdawn, then he calls boisterouslyto the neighbourhood at 10.39a.m., next I record his loud-speaker-like pitch at 1.21 p.m.,then he yells his lungs out at 3p.m. and so on, all bloody day.Clearly his body clock isscrewed. Then I suddenlyremember it’s spring, myfavourite season, a season for

craziness and hope. My sukh-dukh ki saathin, Neha Khullar, isvisiting me. We stand at my bed-room window and look out atthe dull blue water of the Thanecreek. I tell her that its stillnessunnerves me. She listens careful-ly, then cracks a joke like friendsdo to distract; I throw my headback and laugh. The sun setsbetween the brown-green hillsand a silver moon rises above

the water, just like a watercolourin motion. We stuff our faceswith food, giggle into the nightand look at the highway traffictill 2 a.m., till Crazy Roostergoes off again.

To be able to breathe, walknoisily, listen to a rooster crow-ing, scold a husband, laugh witha friend and look at somethingso beautiful, is in itself a miracle.This time I’m not banking onthe hope of a better tomorrow.I’m just glad to have had a beau-tiful spring day. A day of life isstill life!

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Arif Mohammad Khan, who roseto fame by quitting the Congress

in protest against the then RajivGandhi Government’s stand on theShah Bano case, was once again inspotlight recently due to two momen-tous events in the Indian polity.

First, because of his vociferoussupport to the passage of the MuslimWomen (Protection of Rights onMarriage) Act, 2019 (hereby 2019Act), by the Narendra ModiGovernment, which abolished thepractice of instant triple talaq amongHanafi Sunni Muslim population.The 2019 Act is both a personal andpolitical victory for Arif Khan’srelentless struggle against attacksand vilification by the conservativeand fundamentalist Sunni Muslimreligious bodies over four decades.The second reason for his grabbingthe headlines is Arif Khan’s appoint-ment as the Governor of Kerala, end-ing his political oblivion, particular-ly from the Governmental office. Thecritics, mostly from secular andMuslim intelligentsia and politicalspectrum, have seen the gubernato-rial appointment as a reward for hissupport to the 2019 Act and accusedhim of being an opportunist. Suchcriticism is perfectly understandableas Arif Khan has long defied the “sec-ular framing” of a politician withMuslim identity as primarily repre-sentative of Muslim community andunderstanding of Indian politics interms of secularism vs communalism.

Beyond these two immediatecontexts, a more serious reason forpublic attention lies in his constantrefusal to play the role of “Muslimpolitics” in accordance with the rulebook of “secular politics” and of so-called “secular” political parties. Inthis political tradition, both “secularpolitics” and “Muslim politics” com-plement each other; wherein “secu-lar politics” tends to demonstrate itssensitivity towards accommodatingthe religious demands of Muslimcommunity to affirm its secularidentity in exchange for Muslim elec-toral support but without allowingthe Muslim political agency to wearthe mantle of Indian nationhood.One consequence of this interplay ofsecular politics and Muslim politicsis that Muslims have become “other”

of Indian nationhood more due tointernal dynamics of “politics ofMuslim identity” and less due to larg-er external Indian political process.

None other than Arif Khan incontemporary times signifies thedilemma of a Muslim politician toappropriate his Indian national iden-tity while either performing theconstitutional duty as elected/nom-inated member of Parliament torepresent Indian people or even inparticipating in public debates as anordinary (Muslim) citizen.Throughout his political career andscholarly engagement spanning morethan four decades, Arif Khan assert-ed his Indian identity in public rolewhile being proud of hisIslamic/Muslim heritage, and force-fully intervened in the matters ofnational importance, including theissues connected with Muslim com-munity from the vantage of Indiancitizen and national unity. His schol-arly work Text and Context: Quranand Contemporary Challenges (2010)reveals this approach. Rooted inIndian ethos, he did not shy awayfrom reflecting critically on the role

of State administration in the 2002Gujarat riots and Goa speech (April2002) of the then Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee.

It is this sense of belonging to the“idea of India” mediated through hisinclusive understanding of Islamand India’s plural ethos that ArifKhan forcefully opposed the MuslimWomen (Protection of Rights onDivorce) Act, 1986 (hereby 1986Act), brought by the then RajivGandhi Government (of which hehimself was a part), at the cost of hispolitical career, and he also took ini-tiative in convincing the ModiGovernment to enact the 2019 Act.

In both instances, Arif Khan pri-marily acted from the point of viewof constitutional and Islamic valuesand ethics. For him, the 1986 Actconstricts the constitutional right tolife of divorced Muslim women andthus violates the constitutional andIslamic notion of justice; while theAct of 2019 expands constitutionalright of equality to Muslim marriedwoman, at least to an extent that thelaw protects Muslim married womanfrom arbitrary exercise of pro-

nouncement of instant triple talaqand its immediate effect on dissolu-tion of marriage. This explains hisvociferous opposition to the formerand support to the latter.

Interestingly, in both circum-stances, Arif Khan emerged as “anti-Muslim” figure in the Muslim col-lective imagination, primarily shapedthrough pan Indian network ofMuslim religious clergy and its con-trol over Muslim religious institu-tions including mosque, dargah,khanqah, madrasa, and maktab.With his “anti-Muslim” tag, ArifKhan quickly lost his relevance forthe “secular” political parties, whichare accustomed to express seculari-ty primarily through deference toMuslim/Islamic identity. Almost allsecular political parties, whethernational or regional, save for a briefmoment with Jan Morcha and BSP, shunned Arif Khan in post-1986phase for his refusal to play “Muslim politics”.

Arif Khan as “anti-Muslim” fig-ure in the collective Muslim imagi-nation rests on the ground that helegitimises the interference of (non-

Muslim) Government in the domainof Muslim personal law/Islamicjurisprudence, which today mostlyflows from closed, narrow, insular,hierarchal, modern legalistic visionof Islam. Herein lies the dilemma of“Muslim politics”: should it be guid-ed to use Indian Constitution,democracy and secularism only forthe purpose of expansion and con-solidation of Islamic religiosity andidentity at the cost of Indian nation-al identity?; or should it be envisionedas an integral part of larger Indianpolitical process to utilise the con-stitutional opportunity structure toempower themselves as well as todemocratise its internal structure byinjecting the State mandated reform?Unfortunately, it is the former that hasdominated Muslim lives and as a con-sequence a vast section of Muslimshas failed to utilise the latter.

Arif Khan has always preferredthe latter course of Muslim publicaction without subscribing to theidentity-centred discourse of Muslimpolitics. However his “reformist pol-itics” collapsed in 1986 Act with thecomplete abdication of the modernstate in upholding the decision ofSupreme Court and injecting demo-cratic reform among the Muslimcommunity. One consequence of thepolitical exit and later political mar-ginalisation of Arif Khan is theweakening of reformist voices with-in the community on the one handand increasing assertion of conser-vative Islamic religious groups in thepolitical domain of the country onthe other. The increasingIslamisation of Muslim spaces,strengthening of Muslim religiousboundary and lack of reformistprocess within the community — allcombined — have significantly con-tributed to the “process of otherisa-tion” of the community and pro-duced “siege mentality”, incapacitat-ing a large section of Muslim youthsfrom participating in the develop-mental process.

The test of a liberal-secular-democratic state lies in the protec-tion of well-being of the minoritycommunity and ensuring a repre-sentation in the power structure ofthe country. It does not lie in itsreluctance to carry out the mean-

ingful reform in the domain of per-sonal laws belonging to minoritycommunity on the ground that itmust come from the communityfirst. By pursuing this line of argu-ment for decades, the Indian statecontributed to the strengthening ofconservative religious voices amongthe Muslim community and indi-rectly kept a large number ofMuslims away from the politics ofdevelopment. A liberal state hasconstitutional mandate and duty toundertake those measures thatenable the people to become moreequal and capable to exercise thefreedom of choices. From this pointof view, the 2019 Act, irrespective ofpolitical intention of the ModiGovernment, is a welcome move.

Interestingly, while a good sectionof “secular jamaat” had openly comeout in support of Arif Khan in 1986for his fight against the capitulationof Congress Government beforeMuslim fundamentalist bodies, par-ticularly the All Indian MuslimPersonal Law Board (AIMPLB), todaythe same secular jamaat is circum-spect in extending their support toArif Khan for 2019 Bill. It is partlybecause of the fact that in 1986 the“secular jamaat” had found in ArifKhan a struggling liberal Muslimpolitician. With the ModiGovernment, Arif Khan ceases to bea liberal Muslim figure and hence notworthy of support of “secular Jamaat”irrespective of the merit of legislation.

In the context of the 2019 Act, asection of media personalities from“secular jamaat” deliberately framedArif Khan as “Muslim leader of aMuslim community” despite his wellestablished track record of conduct-ing himself as one of Indian nation-al leader, and then tried hard, thoughunsuccessfully, to squeeze him forimplications of the Modi rule for thewell-being of Muslim community!Given such secular obsession withpolitics of Muslim identity, it is notdifficult to agree with Arif Khan’sobservation that Indian secular pol-itics has remained frozen in 1986.

(The writer is Senior Fellow,Policy Perspectives Foundation, NewDelhi. Views expressed in the textbelong solely to the writer)

The exit of Britain from theEU would weaken the bloc.

The UK being one of thewealthiest and influentialnations, its departure mightimpair the cohesiveness andeffectiveness of the EU. Further,it may trigger more such exitdemands from some othermembers, delivering a poten-tial threat to the survival of theEU. International MonetaryFund (IMF) has alreadywarned about the economicimpact of Brexit — reducingtrade, investment and eco-nomic growth — on the entirethe EU region. It would makethe mega investors nervousand could spark a sharp dropin the stock markets andvolatile swings in the curren-cy exchange rates across thecontinent.

Since June 23, 2016, whenthe final Brexit vote took placeand the majority of theBritishers took a hard decisionto leave the EU, the sign of ela-tion has already died down inthe polity, economy and soci-ety of Britain. Since then twoPrime Ministers — DavidCameron and Theresa May —had to resign for not being ableto manage either the post-Brexit political crisis or thecomplex negotiations with theEU. Today Britain is at a cross-roads and the EU is divided.

What makes the Brexitprocess more complicated isBritain’s relationship withNorthern Island. Currently,the UK is a part of the EU’s cus-toms union and the singlemarket. The problem is that ifBrexit at all happens, it willhave to leave both the marketand the bloc. Once this hap-pens, the status of the UK-Northern Ireland border willturn into a customs border,coming along with traditionalchecks and controls. This willentail entirely a new system,full of restrictions and creating

new problems for both thetraders and the common peo-ple. In addition to practical andbusiness hurdles, what con-cerns the people of NorthernIreland most is the new psy-chological and political situa-tion that might emerge out ofthe Brexit. In December 2017,in a European Council meet-ing, the UK and the EU adopt-ed a joint report, wherein theformer pledged to avoid a hardborder. But the most unfortu-nate part of this process is that

Cameron and May could notmap out a plan to resolve theNorthern Ireland border issue.As the Brexit confusion mount-ed, the EU insisted on addinga “backstop” provision to thewithdrawal agreement. Thissimply means that if the UKcan’t offer any alternativearrangements, then this back-stop idea indicates thatNorthern Ireland will contin-ue to remain in the EU customsunion and full regulatory align-ment with the single market,

mainly for goods. This essen-tially eliminates all the upcom-ing checks and controls her-alded by a new post-Brexit sce-nario.

The British Government’sstated claims, such as leavingthe EU’s customs union, singlemarket, preventing a hard bor-der with Northern Ireland andensuring a countrywideapproach to Brexit, seem com-pletely unimaginable by thenew administration of BorisJohnson. He is running out of

time, ideas and political com-mitment in this high stakesstand-off.

Brexit has potential toaffect the historic Good FridayAgreement or BelfastAgreement signed on April10, 1998, between the UK andthe Irish Government and mostof the political parties inNorthern Ireland on howNorthern Ireland should begoverned. It made it clear to theinternational community thatNorthern Ireland will remain

part of the UK unless there isconsent of the majority of thepeople in this part of the island.Thereafter, the creation of anassembly with a power-sharingexecutive largely ensured therepresentation of both the war-ring communities — theProtestants and the Catholics— in policy making. Again theEU membership of bothIreland and the UK made thisfragile peace more viable byenabling quick communica-tions and by reducing physical,

psychological and most impor-tantly, economic barriers forthe benefit of this small island.However, the sad part of theBelfast Agreement is that it hasnot been able to bring forth adurable solution to the mostintractable constitutional ques-tions looming large over theNorthern Irelanders.

What haunts NorthernIreland at the moment is noneother than Brexit, which isgradually opening up the oldwounds of the historic GoodFriday Agreement. The veryidea of Brexit has destabilisedpolitics by forcing people totake sides between Britain andIreland. At least for more thantwo decades of the Agreement,people who fought for estab-lishing their religious identitieswere able to take a break fromtheir identity politics of thepast: the Unionists remainedpart of the UK and felt reas-sured that the province’s futurecould only be changed throughan open poll whereas theNationalists Irish had a greatersay in local affairs. But today,the inconclusive and the mostconfusing Brexit process hasreignited the old passions andcaused polarisation along theOrange (Unionists) and theGreen (Nationalists).

Finally, what brings homeutter chaos is all but the poli-cy decisions and politicaluncertainty of the JohnsonGovernment. It is makingpeace more fragile in NorthernIreland. At the core of thefamously unwrittenConstitution of the UK is theprinciple that the PM is therein office as long as he enjoys theconfidence of the House ofCommons. It’s not clear at allwhether Johnson has that cru-cial support. And this is wreak-ing havoc for Northern Ireland.

(The writer is an expert oninternational affairs)

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came asking the other day in a state ofdesperation: “Sir, what is in store of mydestiny? Any luck to get a job in nearfuture? I have tried to put in best duringthe last three years, but with no luck.Suggest me some puja that may help apoor man like me secure my future.”

Young man, destiny is not blind, as itdoesn’t necessarily play out by default incourse of usual run of life. Remember,destiny indicators — the reflection ofKarmic imprints carried over from thepast — are stored in our memory as seed-thoughts. And a seed, though carryingpotential to bloom out into a plant,remains inert till it gets a congenialground, and is then duly nurtured withwater and nutrients (chemical or naturalfertiliser). Similarly, seed-thought-seedsmay offer you with an opportunity whentime is ripe for it. Success, however, maystill elude, if you are not well geared up toencash the opportunity available.

In so far as remedial measure is con-cerned, belief driven puja mediated bypundits can’t help much. The pundit canneither strike upon your inner realms of

mind to checkmate its vagaries and opti-mise your potential, nor manipulate themindset of the unknown recruiters. Theonly viable method is to look withinyourself, identify, acknowledge and thenaddress the fault lines. Also, improve yourfocus, sharpen intelligence, and optimiseindwelling potential. Empowered thus,you may be able to perform well at theexaminations and interviews. That carriesbetter probability of success.

You may be putting in long hourstowards your studies, which gives a feelthat you have endeavoured enough. Butbear in mind; physical efforts alonewould not suffice. Quality efforts areneeded. Should you lack focus, whichyour astrological chart clearly indicates,you may fail to absorb the subject mattersattended. Obviously then, you may not beable to answer well, the questions asked.So, instead of exploring your destiny indi-cators, and seeking extra-terrestrial sup-port through belief driven pujas, betterfigure out your own shortcomingsthrough self-reflection, and address them.Often, a disoriented mind is not able todispassionately identify the inherent faultlines. Let me help you through a look atyour astrological pointers.

Lagna lord Venus, and 11th lord Sunidentified with fulfillment of desires,occupy the career signifying 10th house.The 10th lord Moon in the 6th houseimplies success in efforts and againstcompetitors. Moon also beautifullyaligned to fiery Mars, makes out an ambi-tious person bounding with energy. Allput together strongly promise a good job.Even government job is not ruled out aswould presence of the Sun in the 10thimply. On top of that even benevolentJupiter occupies the 11th house. Despitesuch strong indicators, what then standsin the way of its fruition?

Mind signifying Moon occupies adual sign Pisces, which means you have avacillating mind. You may be continuous-ly breeding thoughts and randomly flirt-ing from one to the other. Also, you aresubject to mood swings. Such a distractedmind doesn’t let you remain focused toyour priority preferences. Moon beingtrine to the Sun is indicative of a comfortloving person, not keen to take pains.That doesn’t let you take timely initiative.How can you expect gain without pain?Here again, Moon locks horns withUranus, which accounts for his mercurialtemperament and erratic conduct. Also,Moon is ill-disposed off to mischievousNeptune. This, in the first place makes

you stick to delusional perceptions andbeliefs, distanced from ground realities.Second, habitually an escapist who keepspushing off initiatives to tomorrow. Youmay not acknowledge truth on its firstappearance. Instead, you may prefer con-tinuing with your own line of thinking onhope against hope till pushed to the wall.Saturn’s opposition to Mercury speaks ofa fixated one-track mind. If all that wouldnot be enough, Mars placed adverse toJupiter signals an inflated ego, whichbinds you to self-defined dos and don’ts.Your narrowed vision doesn’t let you lookbeyond even for reality check.

So, better get over your habit tenden-cies, cultivate push, sharpen your intelli-gence, and improve your focus by follow-ing the process suggested. The good thingis that he acknowledged his fault linesand expressed his willingness to reform.Should you sincerely follow the processsuggested, I am sure, you may secure ajob sooner than later, as already promisedin your chart.

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