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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA fortably won the confidence ment even when it was the sin- the crucial session showed legislators on June 17, the Those who disrespected Brah-
IMPHAL, 11 AUGUST vote. Those giving up their gle largest party in the state smart political move by the grand old party had aimed at mins earlier are now trying to
assembly membership as well after polls in 2017. chief minister. putting the BJP-led ruling gain their favour through idol
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ix Congress MLAs in as saying goodbye to the party The rest two of the eight, The 60-member house has coalition on mat during trust politics, Uttar Pradesh Deputy
Manipur have sub- included Okram Henry Singh, who had stayed away from the an effective strength of 53, vote, but it too could not Chief Minister Dinesh Shar-
mitted their resigna- nephew of Congress Legisla- day-long special session of the including the speaker, who had come true for them. ma said as he slammed the
tion from the Legisla- ture Party leader, Okram Ibobi house the previous day are- the casting vote he could have Congress which had won SP and BSP's efforts to woo
tive Assembly and also quit the Singh. Other legislators are- Md Fazur Rahman and used in the event of a tie. a total of 28 seats to emerg as the community by promising base is eroding and are using
A boy selling National
party on Tuesday. Oinam Lukhoi, Md Abdul Yamthong Haokip. Four members had been the single largest party in the to build statues of Parshuram new gimmicks to attract vot-
Flags look for customers
along a street ahead of
The six legislators who Nasir, Paonam Brojen, The speaker said in the disqualified earlier and three 60-member Manipur house in the state. ers, Sharma said, adding that
74th Independence day, in had handed over resignation Ngamthang Haokip and Gin- house Monday that the two of the BJP resigned some- after the 2017 polls saw mem- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) the people, however, have
New Delhi on Tuesday.�AFP letters to Speaker Yumnam suanhau. had informed that they were time back. bers leaving it from time to chief Mayawati had on Sun- rejected them several times
Khemchand Singh the previ- Secretary of the Manipur in home quarantine. The ruling coalition had 29 time. day promised to build a stat- since they are aware of their
ous night, formally informed Assembly M Ramani Devi Sources said that Fazur MLAs, including the speaker, Soon after the election, ue and hospitals in the name real face. The SP and BSP
BJP functionary shot the Congress office here about said that the speaker has Rahman, who represents while the Congress had 24, of one of its legislator Thounao- of Parshuram and saints thrive on caste politics and the
dead: Fomer district presi- leaving the party. accepted resignation of five of Wabagai assembly seat, has whom eight abstained. jam Shyamkumar was dis- revered by other communi- Congress, at times has been
dent of BJP Sanjay “Six Cong MLAs of Manipur them and their Assembly seats tested positive for the virus and With this victory, Biren qualified under the anti- ties if voted to power in the playing a supportive role, the
Khokhar was shot dead in have submitted their resig- have been declared as vacant. has been admitted to a hos- Singh, jolted by a string of defection law for joining BJP. 2022 assembly polls days deputy chief minister said.
Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat nation letters to the Congress The disqualification case pital here Tuesday. desertions in the party mid- Further, three Congress after the Samajwadi Party On allegations levelled by
district on Tuesday morn- office,” Hareshwar Goshwa- of the sixth MLA P Brojen is On receiving resignation let- June, appeared to have con- MLAs - Kshetrimayum Biren said that it will build statues Mayawati that President Ram
ing. Two unidentified mi, general secretary, Manipur already pending with the ters, they were summoned by solidated his grip on the rul- Singh, Yengkhom Surchan- of Parshuram, the sixth incar- Nath Kovind was not invited
assailants pumped bullets Pradesh Congress Committee, Speaker's Tribunal, which the speaker after the assem- ing coalition which has 18 BJP dra Singh and Sanasam Bira nation of Lord Vishnu. to the groundbreaking cere-
on Khokhar's chest and told reporters. would be taken up on August bly session on Monday night MLAs, four each of NPP and Singh- were disqualified from Speaking to reporters on mony of the Ram Temple in
head that became fatal The six are among the 14, she said. to get it verified, Henry Singh NPF, one each of the TMC, Lok membership of Manipur Monday, Sharma said people Ayodhya since he is a Dalit,
near his agriculture farm eight Congress legislators who About reasons for resign- said. Janshakti Party and an Inde- Legislative Assembly by the cannot be misguided by such Sharma said Kameshwar
in Chaprauli when he was had defied a party whip on ing, Henry Singh said they all Though the government's pendent. speaker. promises as they have not yet Chaupal, who placed the first
out for a morning walk. Monday and skipped the one- have cited lack of trust in the victory in the vote of confi- After failed attempt to And now six have resigned forgotten the slogan- ‘Tilak, brick of the temple, is a Dalit
Police has started the day session of the assembly, leadership of Ibobi Singh dence was a foregone con- unseat Biren Singh from the from the Assembly and also Tarazu Aur Talwar, Inko Maaro too. The BJP or Vishva Hindu
investigation and an FIR in which the BJP-led N Biren because of whom the Congress clusion, the absence of the power in the wake of resig- given up membership of the Joote Char’(reject Brahmins, Parishad does not play caste
has been lodged naming Singh government had com- failed to form the govern- eight Congress MLAs from nation of nine ruling coalition party. Vaishyas, Thakurs/Jaats etc) politics, the deputy chief min-
four persons who had a which was allegedly coined ister said.
browl with the BJP leader by the BSP. Since BJP is working for
in 2018. SNS
Families claim fake encounter, Army Gujarat govt sets up judicial The maximum number
of images of Parashuram were
damaged during Samajwadi
every class of society, custo-
dians of caste politics, ulti-
mately will not succeed in their
Air India pilot cremated:
Wing Commander Deepak begins probe in Shopian killings panel to probe hospital fire Party regime, he claimed,
highlighting that four idols of
evil design, he firmly stated.
Asked about the state's
Sathe (Retd), pilot-in-com- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Rupani after he went through Parashuram were broken in law order situation, he said,
mand of the Air India SNS & PTI at Shopian as shocking and mad Yousuf Tarigami has AHMEDABAD, 11 AUGUST the probe report submitted Ferozabad under the Akhilesh deterrent action is being taken
Express plane that JAMMU, 10 AUGUST extremely excruciating episode demanded timebound enquiry by the two-member com- Yadav regime in the state. in 10 districts of the state
crashed in Kerala last and has said that such ‘repres- into the matter. “There are The Gujarat government mittee comprising Addi- “If those who used to break and a favourable outcome will
week, was cremated in The Army has initiated an sive measures’ have pushed unverified reports that the would set up a judicial inquiry tional Chief Secretary (Home) idols are now talking about reflect shortly.
Mumbai on Tuesday with enquiry into the killing of Jammu and Kashmir in a missing labourers have been commission into the 6 August Mrs Sangeeta Singh and installing them, they know On the Covid-19 situation
state honours. Several three alleged terrorists in precipice of a disaster. killed in a fake encounter. early morning fire at a private Additional Chief Secretary which community is sup- in the state, Sharma said peo-
mourners lined up the Shopian on 18 July after the PDP spokesman in a state- This is shocking and must be hospital where eight Covid- (Urban Development) porting which party,” he said ple should not panic due to
road as the funeral pro- family members of three miss- ment said that the reported probed by a sitting High Court 19 patients were killed and Mukesh Puri. referring to Brahmins who are the spurt in cases since the
cession started from his ing labourers from Rajouri in killing of three missing labour- judge in a time-bound man- a para-medical staff sus- Meanwhile, the Covid- seen as traditional voters of recovery rate is above 86 per
residence in Chandivli. Jammu division alleged that ers from Rajouri in a ‘staged ner,” Tarigami said. tained burn injuries. 19 tally in Gujarat has crossed the BJP in the state. cent in the state while the sit-
The Maharashtra govern- the trio was killed in a ‘fake encounter’ at south Kash- Meanwhile the Jammu A fire in the Intensive 72,000 with 1,056 new The parties that were uation in Agra and Mathura
ment decided to accord a encounter’. mir’s Shopian has raised ques- and Kashmir unit of Con- Care Unit (ICU) of the Shrey cases registered in the last 24 opposing reservation given to has improved.
state funeral to the pilot, Army's spokesman, Colonel tions on all such encounters gress demanded an inde- Hospital here on last Thurs- hours. those belonging to General cat- He had earlier said that
and said his life shall Rajesh Kalia said; “We have in recent months especially pendent probe into the alleged day had claimed the lives of With total deaths of 2,674 egory by the Union and state entry of devotees to temples
inspire young pilots. SNS noted social media inputs in view of the new decision not encounter. eight people. people and recoveries by 55, governments have done a on Janmashtami will be barred
linked to the operation at to identify bodies, or hand “The circumstances The decision to institute 376 patients, the total active volte face now, Sharma said. due to Covid-19, while tem-
Shopian on 18 July 2020. The them over to families and demand immediate state- an inquiry commission was Covid-19 cases in the state are The fact is that these par- ples would be richly decorated
Leopard kills girl in Dahod three Terrorists killed during bury them reportedly in ment of facts by the author- taken by chief minister Vijay 14,170 now. ties have realised that their and their sanctity maintained.
district: A 7-year-old girl the operation have not been remote, inaccessible, uniden- ities regarding the mystery of
has been mauled to death identified and the bodies were tified places. their death and an indepen-
by a leopard near San- buried based on established The spokesman alleged dent probe into the circum-
gasar village in Gujarat's protocols. Army is investi- that in order to justify its stances in view of the con-
Dahod district, a forest gating the matter.” A contro- repressive, unconstitution- troversy so that rule of law pre-
official said on Tuesday. versy on the issue erupted on al, inhuman and extremely vio- vails,” JKPCC chief spokesper-
This is the third such inci- Monday when certain Kash- lent measures upon the peo- son Ravider Sharma said.
dent in the region in less mir based political parties ple of Kashmir, all government He said the government
than a month, he said. The described it a "fake encounter" of India needs is a militancy must come out with a detailed
big cat dragged the victim and sought action against narrative. It is high time that statement about the death of
away from outside her the concerned security forces. impartial and high-level probes three young boys, whose fam-
house in Dhanpur taluka Peoples Democratic Party into recent encounters must ily members claim that they
on Monday evening, said (PDP) on termed the reports be ordered, said the PDP had no connection with any
Vasiya Dungri forest range of three missing labourers spokesman. unlawful activity and had
officer Mahesh Parmar. PTI killed in a staged encounter CPI(M) leader Moham- gone for work to Shopian.