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JAIPUR, Nov 26:

Going all out to woo farm-ers and youth in poll-boundRajasthan, Congress PresidentRahul Gandhi today promised towaive farm loans in ten days ifvoted to power in the State andsaid the Congress ChiefMinister will work for 18 hoursa day to help youth get jobs.

Speaking at an election rallyin Jaisalmer district's Pokhranconstituency, he describedCongress workers as 'sher' and'babbar sher' and said they haveto fight on booths but with gen-tleness unlike RSS or BJP work-ers.

"You (people) are going tomake Congress party'sGovernment in the state. Withinten days of government forma-tion, Congress will waive farm-ers' loan in the state,” he said.

Gandhi said he had made thesame promise in Punjab andKarnataka elections andCongress governments therehave waived farmers' loan.

“You may call and ask anyfarmer in Punjab and Karnatakaand check whether their loanshave been waived or not by theCongress party. I do not makefalse promises. Whatever I,Sachin Pilot or Ashok Gehlotare saying from this stage, wewill do that,” he said.

He said the Chief Minister ofCongress will work for 18 hoursin a day and will be engaged ingetting youth jobs.

Alleging that “Modi waived3.5 lakh crore of top 15 industri-alists", he said, "We will giveloans of lakhs to crores ofyouths. We will give bank loansto youths to set up small busi-ness, factories and will ask themto give jobs to others".

The allegations that the

prime minister waived loans ofindustrialists have been deniedby the Centre.

Gandhi said he will onlyspeak the truth and will notmake any promise which cannotbe fulfilled. “The bondbetween you and me should bethat of transparency. Manythings can be done by truthful-ness. Farmers' loan can bewaived off and schemes like

MGRENGA can be introducedwith truthfulness,” he said. Healso attacked the Prime Ministerover the Rafale deal and otherissues.

Targeting Chief MinisterVasundhra Raje, Gandhi saidthat she had in an advertisementtalked about a school inBharatpur and said the schoolhad fans, furniture, drinkingwater, playground etc. (PTI)

Rahul promises farm loan waiver,jobs to youth in Rajasthan

Tributes paid to martyrs on 10th anniversary of 26/11 attack

MUMBAI, Nov 26:

Floral tributes were paidtoday to those who laid downtheir lives while fightingPakistani terrorists who hadattacked the metropolis on thisday 10 years ago.

Maharashtra Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis was amongthe dignitaries who paid hom-age at the 26/11 police memo-rial site at the Mumbai PoliceGymkhana in south Mumbai.

“I pay homage to the bravepolicemen who fought forMumbai’s safety and laid downtheir lives for us on 26/11. Weare proud of them and we willstrive hard for the safety andsecurity of our State,”Fadnavis said.

Governor Ch VidyasagarRao, Maharashtra Police ChiefDatta Padsalgikar and MumbaiCommissioner of PoliceSubodh Kumar Jaiswal alsoattended the ceremony.

Family members of thepolicemen who lost their livesduring the attacks were alsopresent during the ceremony.

On November 26, 2008, 10Pakistani terrorists arrived bysea route and opened fire indis-criminately at people killing166, including 18 security per-sonnel, and injuring severalothers, besides damaging prop-erty worth crores.

The then Anti-TerrorismSquad (ATS) chief HemantKarkare, Army Major SandeepUnnikrishnan, Mumbai’sAdditional PoliceCommissioner Ashok Kamte,Senior Police Inspector VijaySalaskar and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) TukaramOmble were among thosekilled in the attack.

The attacks had begun onNovember 26 and lasted tillNovember 29.

The Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Terminus, the OberoiTrident, the Taj Mahal Hotel,Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospitaland the Nariman House Jewishcommunity centre, nowrenamed Nariman LightHouse, were some of theplaces targeted by the terror-ists.

Ajmal Kasab was the onlyterrorist who was capturedalive. He was hanged fouryears later on November 21,2012.

Paying his tributes, Jaiswaltweeted: “I offer my heartfelttribute to the ones who putMumbai first, till the veryend”.

The Mumbai Police too

posted a message on its Twitterhandle which read,“Remembering those who putthe nation before themselves.And our salute to the citywhose resilience always madeits people stronger”.

Speaking to media,Salaskar’s daughter Divya saidnothing could compensate forthe pain the incident hadcaused.

“The whole city remembersthis day very painfully. Tenyears down, we have came along way but the pain is verymuch the same. When you losea loved one like a father or ahusband, there is nothing tocompensate for that kind ofpain,” Divya said.

She added that the city wassafer and there was moreawareness among people.

Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil,Leader of Opposition in theMaharashtra Assembly, afterpaying tributes, praised theMumbai Police but pulled upthe state government for laps-es.

He said the Ram PradhanCommittee, constituted by thethen government to probe theshortcomings that led to the26/11 terror attack, had recom-mended the setting up of a pro-tocol under an internal securitycommittee.

This protocol is yet to beprepared and the internal secu-rity committee has never metin the past four years (since theBJP-led government came topower in the state), Vikhe Patilpointed out.

“Coastal police stationswere announced by the state

government, but nothing hasbeen done about them in thelast four years,” the seniorCongress leader said, addingthat coastal policing should bea top priority.

Vikhe Patil said the govern-ment should emphasis the needfor technology and greater ini-tiative in intelligence. (PTI)

Senior NationalistCongress Party (NCP) leaderAjit Pawar said the safety ofpeople was of utmost impor-tance and there could not beany compromise with that.

He said he did not want todraw comparisons between theprevious and the current gov-ernment, but made it clear thatsafety of the common man wasof utmost importance.

Meanwhile, formerMumbai Police CommissionM N Singh said Pakistan wasa permanent enemy of Indiaand claimed that as long as theArmy and the Inter-ServicesIntelligence (ISI) were in aposition of power in theneighbouring country, theywouldn’t allow the relation-ship between the two coun-tries to normalise.

He said Pakistan was a con-stant threat to India’s securityand had an agenda of violenceagainst India.

Railway authorities, led byCentral Railway general man-ager D K Sharma, laidwreathes on the 26/11 memori-al at Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Terminus, one of thetargets of the terror attack.(PTI)

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis paying tributes tomartyrs.