eye MCS/204/2020-22RNINO.MAHENG2002/21899 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Who stole my Butter Chicken? MUMBAI,LATECITY FEBRUARY4,2024 The dish is in the soup of its own making — over the question of who invented it 16+4PAGES,`6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT DAYS AFTER AWARD CONFERRED ON EX-BIHAR CM KARPOORI THAKUR 76 104 Bharat Ratna for L K Advani, BJP’s poll message clear: Social justice, Hindutva 76 THE WORLD Hiscontribution monumental:PM; Honourforideals, principles:Advani Journey’s long arc: Rath Yatra to BJP architect, Atal No. 2 to margdarshak VIKAS PATHAK 127 VIKAS PATHAK PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi announced Saturday the government would confer BharatRatna,thecountry’shighest civilian award, on BJP stalwart and former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani. “I am very happy to share thatShriLKAdvanijiwillbeconferred the Bharat Ratna. I also IT WAS IN 1989 that the Bharatiya Janata Party under LK Advani had taken a decisiveideologicalstance. Giving up Gandhian socialism as the motto thatAtalBihariVajpayee had been promoting, the party supported the Ram Janmabhoomi movement of the RSS and VHP through the NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 3 NEARLY 40 DEAD AS U.S. HITS IRAN-LINKED SITES IN SYRIA, IRAQ IMRAN, WIFE GET 7-YR JAIL IN UNLAWFUL MARRIAGE CASE PAGE 12 Maldives says Indian Coast Guard flouted maritime law, seeks report PRESS TRUST OF INDIA MALE, FEBRUARY 3 THEMALDIVES’governmenthas formally requested the Indian government to provide “comprehensive details” of an incident in which its Coast Guard personnel allegedly boarded three Maldivian fishing vessels operating within its economic zone. Thedevelopmentisthelatest in the diplomatic row between the two nations that led to the strain in bilateral ties after CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 3 BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani is congratulated by daughter Pratibha Advani at their residence in New Delhi, Saturday. ANI PRAISE, POTSHOTS FROM OPPOSITION PAGE 10 BJP MLA who shot at Shinde Sena leader in police station arrested PROFBOOKEDFOR ‘PRAISINGGODSE’ P9 Palampur resolution of 1989, which called for the site to be handed over to Hindus either through a negotiated process or legislation. The party had openly embraced Hindutva. Advani followed this up with a Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya from September 25, 1990. January 22, 2024, could well be seen as the culmination of the Yatra that CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LADAKHSHUTSDOWN FORSTATEHOOD P10 Punjab Governor resigns, cites personal reasons NAVJEEVAN GOPAL CHANDIGARH, FEBRUARY 3 A DAY after he met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi, PunjabGovernorandChandigarh AdministratorBanwarilalPurohit resignedonSaturday,citing“personal reasons”. “Due to my personal reasons andcertainothercommitments,I Banwarilal Purohit quit day after he met Amit Shah. File tender my resignation from the post of the Governor of Punjab and Administrator, Union CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SAGAR RAJPUT ULHASNAGAR, FEBRUARY 3 A BJP MLA, Ganpat Gaikwad from Kalyan East, has been arrested for shooting at a local Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) leader inside a police station in Ulhasnagar, in Thane district of Maharashtra, on Friday night, police said. Two of the MLA's associates have also been arrested. The person who was shot at has been identified as Mahesh Gaikwad, the Kalyan city president of the Shiv Sena (Shinde). Hospitalsourcessaidhesuffered six gunshot injuries and is critical.Oneof hisassociateswasalso shot twice. Ganpat Gaikwad being taken to a court in Thane. Deepak Joshi Speaking to reporters after the incident, the MLA admitted CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 FULL COVERAGE PAGE4 Dept head, 5 students ED moves Delhi court held over play at Pune day after Kejriwal University, freed on bail skips fifth summons EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE PUNE, FEBRUARY 3 A DEPARTMENT head and five students of the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) were arrested Saturday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by staging a play with “objectionable scenes” on the campus, police said. They were later released on bail. PuneABVPleaderHarshwardhan Harpude had filed a com- plaint at Chaturshringi Police Station, objecting to the depiction of Lord Ram and Sita in the play, Jab We Met, which was stagedFridaynight.Heandother ABVP members allegedly also disrupted the show, leading to a scuffle. Police were deployed in strength on Saturday at the university, which formed a committee headed by a retired district judge to investigate the incident. “Parody of any person, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NIRBHAY THAKUR NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 3 A DAY after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal skipped the Enforcement Directorate's summons for the fifth time, the ED filed a complaint against him in a court here on Saturday. TheEDmadeitssubmissions before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Divya Malhotra, who will hear the matter on February 7. While the ED has sought to question Kejriwal in the case related to the AAP government's now-scrapped excise policy, the Delhi CM has called the summons “illegal”. Questioning the summons, he has said that he has not been named as an accused in the case. Three senior AAP leaders – former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and AAP communications in-charge Vijay Nair -- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Cat scan: In Gujarat, trackers walk extra mile to keep Asiatic lions safe PAGE 1 ANCHOR GOPAL KATESHIYA KHADKALA (AMRELI), FEB 3 AS THE January sun sets, Yasin Juneja,39,aforesterwiththeforestdepartmentsetsoutinhisofficial camper van from the range forest officer’s (RFO) office at Savarkundla in Gujarat’s Amreli district. Leaving a plume of dust behind,thevantraversesadirttrack A railway tracker patrols the railway line in Gujarat’s Badhada village. Gopal Kateshiya between cotton fields and reaches a stretch of PipavavSurendranagar railway track in Amrutvel, a village 11 km away fromSavarkundlaineasternpart of Amreli district. The earthen embankmentisthehighestpoint in this part of Shetrunji river floodplains,whicharepartof the revenuebeatof Gir(East)wildlife division’s Savarkundla range. Satisfied that the embankment is clear of vegetation — meaning better visibility for forest department’s trackers and loco pilots in spotting lions CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BISCUITS