DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2024, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES e Modi Sarkar ki Guarantee Government of india Prosperity of farmers Scan for more information Hamara Sankalp CBC 22201/13/0205/2324 Viksit Bharat 1 lakh 25 thousand PM Kisan Samriddhi Kendras developed as one stop shop; Farmers are getting modern facilities and information close to home DAY AFTER CONSECRATION, RAM TEMPLE OPENS TO PUBLIC Five lakh visitors and counting: On Day 1, rush for ‘first darshan’ Rahul Gandhi in Guwahati on Tuesday. PTI Rahul, others booked over yatra scuffle in Assam SUKRITA BARUAH GUWAHATI, JANUARY 23 AN FIR was registered against RahulGandhiandotherCongress leadersonTuesdayafterascuffle brokeoutbetweenpeopletaking partintheBharatJodoNyayYatra and the Assam Police when the yatratriedtoenterGuwahaticity. Several people were injured in theincident,includingCongress’s Assam chief Bhupen Borah. “With reference to wanton acts of violence, provocation, damage to public property and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 CM takes stock; system being put in place to have a holding area for crowd, says DGP Bharat Ratna for ex-Bihar CM, ‘Jan Nayak’ Karpoori Thakur AYODHYA, JANUARY 23 PATNA, NEW DELHI, JAN 23 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 The crowd at the main gateway leading to the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Tuesday. Vishal Srivastav seen trying to ensure a smooth flow of pilgrims. At 4.40 pm, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reached the temple town. He first did an aerial survey of the crowd from a helicopter and then reached the temple to take stock. “Exercise restraint and cooperate, Ram Lalla will give darshan to everyone,” the CM said in an appeal to pilgrims. He also called senior police and administrative officers and held a review of crowd management efforts on the premises. The administration, on the instructions of the CM, will increase barricading, officials said. Later, Director General of Police Vijay Kumar said, “A system is being put in place to have a holding area for the crowd. So, if 50,000 people come at a time, they can be stopped at different CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Behind the move SANTOSH SINGH & VIKAS PATHAK SOCIALIST ICON and Bihar’s former Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur has been awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously, the Rashtrapati Bhavan announced Tuesday. The BJP-led Centre’s decision to confer the country’s highest civilianhonouronThakurcomes at a time when Bihar is MAULSHREE SETH AYODHYAWOKEuponTuesday morning to a sea of people at the gates of the Ram temple, with queues beginning to form as earlyas3am.Thelargerthananticipated crowd prompted the administration to hold urgent meetings and the Chief Minister to personally pay a visit. By evening, around 5 lakh peoplehadpaidobeisancetothe Ram idol, a day after the consecration ceremony. Around 8,000 security personnel have been deployed to manage the rush. On Day 1, PrincipalSecretary(Home)Sanjay PrasadandDirectorGeneral(Law andOrder)PrashantKumarwere also at the temple and could be BJP BID TO BLUNT JD(U)-RJD SOCIAL JUSTICE PITCH Karpoori Thakur. Archive OURGOVT WALKED ON HIS PATH BY NARENDRA MODI P8 BY EVOKING former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur just months before the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP has sought to counter the Opposition's caste census pitch, and made a direct appeal to the non-Yadav OBC politics that Nitish Kumar has come to represent. Two days after communal clash, 15 shops demolished in Mumbai suburb ZEESHAN SHAIKH, VIJAY KUMAR YADAV & SIVA GANESH MUMBAI, JANUARY 23 TWO DAYS after a clash broke out between members of two communitiesinMiraBhayander, a city in Maharashtra’s Thane district, the Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation used bulldozers Tuesday afternoon to demolish about 15 structures in After the demolitions at Mira Road in Thane district on Tuesday. Sankhadeep Banerjee the Muslim-dominated Haidary Chowk area in Mira Road. Thepolicepickedup15more persons Tuesday, in addition to 13 who were held the previous day. Of these 13, nine were arrested; four were minors. On Sunday night, a group passing by in vehicles with saffron flags and chanting “Jai Shri Ram”, was stopped by some locals people from another community. An argument broke out, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2