DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2024, LUCKNOW, LATE CITY, 14 PAGES `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 WHAT IS THE POINT NOW? THE FEAR THAT HE LIVED UNDER, OF BEING TAKEN AWAY, DIED WITH HIM: WIFE HAJERA BIBI Last week, SC declared Rahim Ali a citizen; what nobody knew: he died over two years ago branded ‘foreigner’ For years, family of Assam man ran from court to foreigners’ tribunal to fight for justice after police called him illegal SUKRITA BARUAH NALBARI, JULY 17 Hajera Bibi shows a photo of her husband Rahim Ali, who died on Dec 28, 2021. Sukrita Baruah Food stalls on Kanwar Yatra route must show owners’ names: UP SSP NEETIKA JHA NOIDA, JULY 17 POLICE IN Muzaffarnagar have asked eateries, including roadside carts, along the route of the KanwarYatratodisplaynamesof owners or proprietors to “avoid anyconfusion”amongtheyatris. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Senior Superintendent of Police, Muzaffarnagar, Abhishek Singh said, “Preparationshavebegunforthe Kanwar Yatra. In the area under our jurisdiction, which is around 240 km, all eateries — hotels, dhabas, thelas (roadside carts) — have been instructed to display names of their proprietors or those running the shop. This is being done to ensure there is no confusion among the kanwarias and no allegations are raised in thefuture,leadingtoalawandordersituation.Everyoneisfollowing this of their own free will.” Earlier this month, Muzaffarnagar MLA and UP Minister of State (independent charge) Kapil Dev Aggarwal had held a meeting on yatra preparations. He had said that while he had no objection to Muslims BENGALURU, JULY 17 AFTER TOP CEOs and industry bodies warned the Karnataka government that the proposed law on jobreservationintheprivate sector would drive away companiesandsettheclockback on progress, the state leadership on Wednesday said the Bill has been withheld and the Cabinet would discuss it comprehensively in the next meeting. The state Cabinet had on Tuesday approved ‘The Karnataka State Employment of Local Candidates in the Industries, Factories and Other EstablishmentsBill,2024’,which mandates 75 per cent reservation in non-management jobs E E X P L A I NE D AKRAM M ● and 50 per cent in management jobs for “local candidates”. While Biocon founder Kiran CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Recruited from Pak’s Punjab, North-West DEEPTIMAN TIWARY NEW DELHI, JULY 17 THE RECENT attacks that have rocked the Jammu region are suspected to have been perpetratedbya“freshbatchof terrorists” who infiltrated in the past six months and comprise fighters from Pakistan's Punjab as wellasKhyberPakhtunkhwaregions,saidsources.Mostof them are suspected to be Jaish-eMohammed (JeM) recruits. BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Politics of job quota KARNATAKA HAS joined states such as Andhra Pradesh and Haryana in proposing job quotas in the private sector. In Haryana, the Supreme Court struck down the law calling it unconstitutional, whereas Andhra never implemented it on the ground. ter the case was handed to him by a lower court lawyer. Choudhury said he was not aware of his death. “It never came to our knowledge. The only way we could have known this was if it had been communicated by either the family or the state, but that was not the case. The people in these cases are not educated, so the information remained with them,” he said. Ali’s son Mojibur Rahman said that after his death, nobody in the family had spoken to any lawyer. At their village, Ali’s wife Hajera Bibi (51) said his biggest fear through his entire legal battle was that “he would be taken away by the police.” In fact, she recalled that after he was declared a foreigner by theTribunal,heavoidedsleeping Doda attack: Jaish suspects infiltrated six months ago, ‘stayed off grid’ in Jammu CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Karnataka Govt puts pvt sector quota Bill on hold IN A landmark judgment delivered last week, the Supreme Court declared Assam resident Rahim Ali an Indian citizen — bringing to a close a 12-year chapter which began with a Foreigners’ Tribunal in the state labelling him a foreigner. Only, The Indian Express has found that Ali died over twoand-a-half years before the verdict, carrying the heavy tag of a “foreigner” and “illegal immigrant from Bangladesh” to his grave. Ali, a resident of Kashimpur village in Assam’s Nalbari district, died in his village on December 28, 2021 at the age of 58, even as the apex court continued to hear his case. This was after the Tribunal had delivered an ex-parte order in2012declaringhimaforeigner sincehehadnotappearedbefore it, stating that he “had failed to discharge his burden” under Section 9 of the Foreigners Act. When he appealed against thisintheGauhatiHighCourton the ground that he was unable toappearbeforetheTribunalbecauseof a medicalcondition,the petitionwasdismissed.Then,he had approached the Supreme Court,whichdirectedthecaseto a Foreigners’ Tribunal in 2017 to again decide whether he was a foreigner or not. This time too, the Tribunal declared him a foreigner, pointing to discrepancies in spellings and dates in some of the documents he had produced. Advocate Kaushik Choudhury,whorepresentedAli in the Supreme Court, said he had been doing so pro bono af- According to sources, while the ‘People’s Anti-Fascist Front’ claimed credit for the attacks in Poonch-Rajouri earlier, the ‘Kashmir Tigers’ took responsibility for themore recentattacks in Doda-Kathua. Both these groups are suspected to be JeM fronts, said sources. Thegroupsarehighlytrained, motivated and those from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region mayalsohavebattleexperience, including in Afghanistan, said CONTINUEDONPAGE2 AFTER SETBACK IN LS POLLS As rumblings grow louder, UP BJP chief meets PM UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya arrives to meet BJP chief J P Nadda at the party headquarters in Delhi, Tuesday. PTI Deputy CM Maurya reiterates: Party bigger than Govt, workers our pride VIKAS PATHAK & MAULSHREE SETH NEW DELHI, LUCKNOW, JULY 17 A soldier near the encounter site in Doda on Wednesday. PTI AMID THE rumblings within the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, state party president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Capital on Wednesday. The meeting came a day after Chaudhary and the state’s Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya met BJP national president J P Nadda separately on Tuesday. There have been signs of dissent emerging in the BJP's state unit after the party's poor show in the Lok Sabha elections — the BJP's tally fell from 62 out of 80 seats in UP in 2019 to just 33. The KOLKATA, JULY 17 Chess legend Viswanathan Anand, wife Aruna and top player Arjun Erigaisi at Express Adda in Chennai. Amit Chakravarty INSIDE EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE CHENNAI, JULY 17 PAGE 6 ALLY ANUPRIYA PATEL NOW FLAGS ‘ILLEGAL’ TOLL COLLECTION IN U.P. PAGE 3 SamajwadiParty(SP)edgedpast the BJP with 37 seats; the Congress won another six in alliance with the SP. Earlier in the day, Maurya reiterated his statement that the sangathan (party/ organisation) is bigger than the government. “Sangathan sarkar se badaa hai; karyakartaon ka dard mera dard hai;sangathansekoibadaanahin, karyakarta hi gaurav hai (The Soon, Indians may be playing each other for world title: Anand Rethink ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’: BJP’s Adhikari in Bengal SANTANU CHOWDHURY KANCHANJUNGA MISHAP: PROBE REPORT SUBMITTED INSIDE THE RAPID strides made by Indian prodigies on the battlefield of the 64 squares makes five-time world champion ViswanathanAnandbelievethat there may soon be a situation where two Indians are playing against each other for the world champion’s crown. “They could easily be each other’s rivals (at the World Chess Championship) in some years,” Anand predicted at the Express Adda in Chennai on Tuesday, wherehewastheguestofhonour withwife,Aruna,andIndia’stoprankedchessplayer,ArjunErigaisi. Thetriowasinconversationwith AnantGoenka,ExecutiveDirector, The Indian Express Group, and AmitKamath,AssistantEditor,The Indian Express. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 THE SUCCESSIVE poll drubbings in West Bengal have forced the fissures within the state BJP unit into the open, with senior leader SuvenduAdhikari,whohasbeen facing the brunt of the heat, on Wednesday questioning the party’s avowed motto of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. Speaking at the two-day BJP stateexecutivecommitteemeeting, the first after the Lok Sabha poll results, Adhikari also under- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari linedthathewastheLeaderofthe Opposition and had little role in thepartyorganisationinthestate. “Hindu bachabo, songbidhan bachabo. Amio bolechi rashtrabadi Muslim, apnara bolechen ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. Aar bolbo na. Bolbo ‘Joh humare CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 THE EDITORIAL PAGE DROPTHISBILL Karnataka’s proposed law on quota for locals in the private sector is bad law, economics Lucknow