eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE The Theatre Wallah LUCKNOW,LATECITY MAY19,2024 A new biography of Ebrahim Alkazi offers an intimate look 14+4PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA P8 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM BIBHAV HELD WHILE BAIL PLEA WAS BEING HEARD; SENT TO 5-DAY CUSTODY His aide held for assault, Kejriwal says INTERVIEW will march to BJP headquarters today THE EXPRESS BJP PRESIDENT ON PACT WITH TMC After Kharge snub, Adhir says: Can’t welcome one who wants to finish Cong Mallikarjun Kharge; Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. File RAVIK BHATTACHARYA & MANOJ CG KOLKATA, NEW DELHI, MAY 18 HOURS AFTER Congress presidentMallikarjunKhargesaidthe party’s West Bengal unit chief Adhir Chowdhury is “nobody to make decisions” on the alliance with TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, Chowdhury said he cannot“welcome”apersonwho “will try to finish the Congress”. The development comes CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Medical report says Maliwal has bruises on cheek, thigh Other AAP leaders will be held soon, says CM; party steps up attack on Maliwal NIRBHAY THAKUR & ANKITA UPADHYAY EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, MAY 18 NEW DELHI, MAY 18 TWO DAYS after he was booked on the charge of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at theChief Minister’sresidence, Bibhav Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal’s aide,wasarrestedbyDelhiPolice Saturday afternoon while his plea for anticipatory bail plea wasbeingheardattheTisHazari Courts. Informed about Bibhav’s arrest, Additional Sessions Judge Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar at the Tis Hazari court complex on Saturday Sushil Anuj Tyagi said the plea had become infructuous. Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Kumar Srivastava informed the court via video conference that Bibhav was arrested at 4:15 Akhilesh: ‘CBI, ED should be shut…Will propose it to INDIA bloc parties’ THE NEERJA CHOWDHURY COLUMN DEPARTMENTS LIKE the Enforcement Directorate and CBI are not needed and should be shut down, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said, adding that he would propose the same to the INDIA bloc. “CBIaurEDbandhonechahiye (TheCBIandEDshouldbeshut)... If you have cheated, there is the Income Tax department to deal with it. Why do you need the CBI? Every state has an Anti-Corruption Department... CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 pm. He had been detained from theChief Minister’sresidencefor questioning around noon. Late in the evening, Bibhav was produced before the court CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SHORTLY AFTER his aide Bibhav Kumarwasarrestedforallegedly assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at the CM residence on May 13, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Saturday that he and AAP senior leaders, MPs and MLAs would court arrestoutsidetheBJPheadquarters in New Delhi on Sunday. Claiming that his party leaderswerebeingtargeted,Kejriwal, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E E X P L A I NE D ‘THIS ELECTION, BJP WILL BREAK CERTAIN MYTHS THAT WILL SURPRISE ALL’ J P NADDA AAP in uncharted ● territory WITH ED naming AAP as accused in the PMLA case, there can be larger implications — from holding “every person” of the party involved in decision-making liable, attachment of property to larger issues of a level playing field in a democracy. BUNDELKHAND, UTTAR PRADESH Safety net in place, labharthis want more: jobs, exams on time ‘Mukhya cheez hai rozgar’: refrain across 400-km stretch HARIKISHAN SHARMA JHANSI, MAHOBA, BANDA, CHITRAKOOT, MAY 18 OVER THE past 10 years, the Narendra Modi government has knit a net of welfare schemes that, at their widest, provide a cushion to around 22 crore fam- Congress president Mallikarjun ilies. This “labharthi varg” has Kharge promised this week to double the free rations paid rich dividends for the available to the poor to 10 BJP in successive elections, perkgpermonthif theINprompting Opposition DIA bloc was voted parties to promise and imto power — thus “betterplement their own basket DECISION ing” one of the Modi of schemes. 2024 CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Inthelatestsuchmove, FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT PM attacks AAP, Cong: World watching one corrupt cover another Says INDIA bloc out to destroy Delhi with their ‘politics of appeasement’ JATINANAND NEWDELHI,MAY18 TAKING A swipe at the AAP and theCongressovercorruptionand blaming the “opportunistic” INDIA bloc for “inciting violence for thesakeof appeasement,endangeringcommunalharmony”duringtheanti-CAAprotestsandthe Northeast Delhi riots, Prime MinisterNarendraModiaskedthe citizens of Delhi to keep in mind the goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’ when they go out to vote on May 25. Addressing a public meeting in Ghonda in Northeast Delhi – thiswashisfirstcampaignrallyin theCapital– ModisaidtheINDIA bloc was “bent upon destroying PM Modi with Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva and party’s LS candidate Manoj Tiwari in Delhi. Tashi Tobgyal Delhi”withits“appeasementpolitics”whilehewasworking“24x7 for2047”.Hemetrefugeefamilies whohavebeengrantedIndiancitizenshipfollowingnotification of CONTINUEDONPAGE2 PoK will be in India within 6 months of Modi as PM again: Yogi VALLABH OZARKAR MUMBAI, MAY 18 UTTAR PRADESH Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said Saturday that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)willbeapartofIndiawithin sixmonthsof NarendraModibecoming “Prime Minister for the third time after the elections”. Addressing an election rally in Vasai in Palghar district of Maharashtra, Adityanath said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 UP CM Yogi Adityanath with BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate Ujjwal Nikam, in Mumbai. PTI Lucknow