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‘WHY NO ONE VISITED MY FATHER IN HOSPITAL WHEN HE WAS ALIVE?’
UP RS POLL: EIGHT CANDIDATES OF BJP AND ONE EACH OF SP AND BSP WERE DECLARED ELECTED UNOPPOSED TO RS
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR & AHMEDABAD 14°C - 32°C
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OF THE FARMER, FOR THE FARMER
GEHLOT GOVT ‘FARMS’ BILLS, COUNTERS CENTRE’S ACT
Raj government 2nd in nation to bring bills against Farm Act recently passed by Parliament Yogesh Sharma/ Naresh Sharma Jaipur: Days after the Punjab assembly passed bills to counter Centre’s farm bills, Rajasthan’s Gehlot government also tread the same path on Monday and passed three bills by voice vote to counter
SMOOTH SAILING AHEAD?
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has today passed three pro farmer bills, which is a matter of great satisfaction as we all stood for our farming community. For the #Rajasthan Govt, the welfare of farmers is paramount. We will not let our farming community suffer in any way.
the farm laws. Even before the Congress and supporting MLAs’ ‘Aye’ reverberated in the house, opposition BJP MLAs staged a walkout ahead of the voice vote. Interestingly, even though Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was not present in the house, his ‘moral authority’
The Bills will become law only after Governor’s assent and with the ‘firebrand’ leader in Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra could withhold the bills on the condition of getting them referred to President Ram Nath Kovind first. was evident in the house when he had passed on the ‘baton’ of responsibility to see the bill through to Shanti Dhariwal, BD Kalla and Dr Raghu Sharma who ensured that the state government’s bill sees the ‘light of day’. Replying to a debate
on the farms bills, Rajasthan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal said that entire country is against the farm laws enacted by the Union government. “I can say it with guarantee that all three farm laws will have to be withdrawn Turn to P6
Bihar Phase II polls: 2.85 cr voters No division within us, claims Col Bainsla as to decide future of 94 seats today he invites govt to talk Patna: Voting in 94 of the total 243 Assembly seats in Bihar will be held on November 3 during the second phase of state elections in which over 2.85 crore voters will decide the fate of 1,463 candidates in fray. As many as 41,362 polling stations have been set up across 17 districts, all of which except Patna, Bhagalpur, and Nalanda are situated north of the Ganges. Maharajganj seat has a maximum of 27 candidates in the electoral battle and Daraula with only four in the second round of Assembly polls. Prominent contestants in the fray include Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and Grand Alliance’s chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav who is recontesting the Raghopur seat and his brother Tej Pratap in the fray in Hassanpur seat in Samastipur
BY-POLL
54 assembly seats in 10 states go to poll today, 28 in MP district. Other prominent faces in the fray in the second phase are RJD leaders Alok Kumar Mehta from Ujiyarpur and Shailesh Kumar from Bihpur, former parliamentarian Anand Mohan’s son Chetan Anand from Sheohar, former parliamentarian Rama Singh’s wife Beena Singh from Mahnar, and Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv from Bankipur. Ministers Nandk-
PRIYANCA NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST INDIAN-ORIGIN MINISTER Wellington: Priyanca Radhakrishnan on Monday became New Zealand’s first-ever Indian-origin minister after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern inducted five new ministers into her executive. Born in India, Radhakrishnan, 41, went to school in Singapore before moving to New Zealand to further her education. She has spent her work life advocating on behalf of people whose voices are often unheard “women survivors of domestic violence, and migrant workers who have been exploited.
BOOKED: MUNAWWAR RANA ON FRANCE KILLINGS Lucknow: An FIR has been registered against Urdu poet Munawwar Rana for allegedly defending the recent killings in France over a caricature of Prophet Muhammad, police said on Monday. Rana had made the controversial comments in an interview to a news channel after three people were killed in a knife attack at a church in Nice last week.
ishore Yadav, Randhir Singh, and Shravan Kumar are also in the fray from Patna Sahib, Madhuban and Nalanda segments. The prestige of 27 MLAs of the Grand Alliance is at stake. The RJD has fielded 56 candidates in the second phase of elections, wherein it is in direct contest with the BJP on 27 seats and with the ally turned foe JD-U on 25 seats. The BJP is contesting 46 seats and the JD-U 43 seats.
Bhopal/Lucknow/ Ahmedabad: Voting will be held on Tuesday for by-elections to 54 assembly constituencies in 10 states including 28 seats in Madhya Pradesh where the BJP is locked in a keenlyfought contest with the Congress to save its government. Extensive arrangements have been made due to the COVID-19 pandemic including personal protective equipment (PPE) kits for election staff, more polling
booths, thermal screening, sanitisers, masks and gloves for voters and markings to ensure social distancing, officials said. Voting will be held from 7 AM to 6 PM, except in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Nagaland where the timings are different, and the number of people allowed in a polling booth has been restricted. Voters who are COVID-19 positive will be allowed to vote separately in the last hour, officials said. Turn to P6
Bharatpur: The Gurjar agitation which started on Monday appears to be divided into two factions after just one day of agitation. On Tuesday, Gurjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla finally joined his son Vijay, on railway tracks wherein the father-son duo in unison said that they are steadfast on their demands. “We did not want minister Ashok Chandana to meet us on tracks at night hence a talk could not happen,” Kirori Bainsla said and again gave an invite to Chandana to hold talks. Meanwhile, Bainsla junior stressed that if Chandana can not come then Dr Raghu Sharma or any other leader can come to hold talks. Members of Gurjar community on Monday continued their protest
Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla
demanding reservation in jobs and education as a ‘most backward class’ (MBC) community. Gurjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla said the agitation will continue until their demands are met. Speaking to ANI, Bainsla said, “We will continue our agitation till our demands are met. The government should accept our demands as early as pos-
sible.” Bainsla said there is unity in the community and those who were saying that the community has been divided into two factions are wrong. “Through this agitation, it is clear that our community is not divided and those who were saying that this community has been divided into two factions, is wrong. Turn to P6
Vishvendra Singh and Ramesh Meena may make a ‘surprise’ comeback!
No security to Babri case Judge: SC
Naresh Sharma
the two rebel leaders. As a result, both the ministers have not been asked to vacate their official bungalows so far and are also maintaining a discreet silence on their Twitter handles on Gehlot. If it really happens, it will be a dramatic ‘Uturn’ in Gehlot’s earlier stand and virtually a victory for Pilot, at least
Jaipur: According to a highly reliable input, the two Pilot Camp ‘ousted’ ministers Vishvendra Singh and Ramesh Meena may make a surprise comeback in the next couple of days. A towering CM Gehlot has almost made up his mind to give an olive branch to
Only 6.83 pc active corona cases, recovery rate at 91.68 pc: MoHFW New Delhi: The Union Health on Monday informed that the active coronavirus cases comprise only 6.83 per cent of the total positive cases of the country and added that the overall recoveries have crossed 75 lakhs. With 45,230 new infections in the last 24 hours, Turn to P6
CJ OF RAJASTHAN HC INDRAJEET MAHANTY AND WIFE CORONA POSITIVE With the tentacles of Corona still spreading far and wide in the state, Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court Indrajeet Mahanty and his wife have also tested positive, after he returned on Saturday from his week long tour of New Delhi. Mahanty, who showed symptoms on Sunday night, got himself tested and on Monday a positive report was received. After the report was received, Mahanty was admitted to the IDH Centre of SMS Medical College. Turn to P6
on face value. However, it is yet not known whether this re-induction of two cabinet ministers is being done under instructions from Congress High Command and the 3-member committee or Gehlot has suo-moto initiated this ‘smart’ political move, keeping in mind some long strategy?
ATTACK ON AFGHAN UNIVERSITY LEAVES 19 DEAD, 22 WOUNDED Kabul: Gunmen stormed Kabul University on Monday as it hosted a book fair attended by the Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan, sparking an hours-long gun battle and leaving at least 19 dead and 22 wounded at the war-torn country’s largest school. The ministry’s spokesman, Tariq Arian, also said there were three attackers involved in the assault, all of whom were killed in the ensuing firefight. As the sun slowly set over the Afghan capital, there were few other details though the Taliban issued a statement denying they took part in the assault.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to extend security to former special court judge Surendra Kumar Yadav, who had delivered the verdict in the 28-year-old Babri demolition case in September. All 32 accused in the high-profile case, including BJP’s founder-members LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, were acquitted on September 30 by a special court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. SK Yadav, 60, was to retire in 2019, but he was given extensions by the top court to hear the decades-old case which he had been handling since 2015. Turn to P6