eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Forever Rekha AHMEDABAD,LATECITY OCTOBER6,2024 As Rekha turns 70 next week, a look at her enigma and legacy 14+4PAGES,`6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA BY UNNY Yati ‘detained’, BJP MLA adds fuel, says temple attacked, calls for ‘encounter’ Triggered protests with latest remarks on Islam NEETIKA JHA GHAZIABAD, OCTOBER 5 TWO DAYS after an FIR was registered against him for objectionable remarks against Islam, Yati Narsinghanand, the controversial head priest of the Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad,islearnttohavebeen detained by the Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday. While there was no official statement, a police officer confirmed this to The Indian Express. According to a PTI report, his CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPRESS NETWORK EX-PRINCIPAL TRIED TO SHOW R G KAR CASE AS SUICIDE: CBI JUNIOR DOCTORS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE PAGE 9 OVER 66% POLLING IN HARYANA; RESULTS ON OCT 8 Cong likely to win in Haryana, its alliance with NC has edge in J&K, show exit polls NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 5 THECONGRESSislikelytoreturn to power in Haryana after a decade,andhasanedgebutmay missthehalfwaymarkinJammu andKashmir,whereitfoughtthe Assembly elections in alliance with the National Conference, according to most exit polls on Saturday. InJ&K,whereAssemblyelections were held after 10 years — the first after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 — some polls predicted a hung House while CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 A DAY after the government announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will lead theIndiandelegationtoPakistan for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Councilof Headsof Government on October 15-16, the Minister saidhewasn’tgoingtheretodiscuss India-Pakistanrelationsbut CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 5 Polling in Julana Assembly constituency, from which Olympian Vinesh Phogat is contesting on a Congress ticket, on Saturday. Gajendra Yadav HARYANASEES66.49%TURNOUT WHAT THE EXIT POLLS HAVE FORECAST J&K Cong-NC PDP BJP 6-12 27-32 HARYANA Others IndiaToday CVoter 40-48 6-11 Dainik Bhaskar 35-40 4-7 20-25 12-18 Gulistan News 31-36 5-7 28-30 8-16 Axis My India 35-45 4-6 24-34 8-23 BJP Cong Others Dainik Bhaskar DECISION 2024 In 2014, before J&K was split into 2 UTs, PDP won 28 seats, BJP 25, NC 15, Congress 12 15-29 44-54 7-14 Republic Matrize 18-24 55-62 5-14 IndiaToday CVoter 20-28 50-58 10-16 Axis My India 18-28 53-65 4-13 2019 tally in Haryana BJP 40 Cong 31 JJP 10 Others 9 THE COUNTING of votes for the Haryana Assembly polls will take place on October 8, but the chief ministerial race in the OppositionCongresshasalready heated up. As polling for all 90 seats in Haryana was taking place Saturday,seniorCongressleaders started claiming that the party wouldgetan“absolutemajority”, with some of them not shying awayfromprojectingthemselves as probable CM candidates. While staking their claims, they also said that it was the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PM IN MAHARASHTRA INAUGURATES UNDERGROUND METRO LINE IN MUMBAI SAYS CONG IS BEING RUN BY GANG OF URBAN NAXALS PAGE8 How security forces led largest Maoist encounter in Chhattisgarh JAYPRAKASH S NAIDU DANTEWADA, OCTOBER 5 SMRUTHIK RAJANALA (32), the Additional Superintendent of Police (Naxal operations), Dantewada,hadhisworkcutout. He was to lead over 100 personnel to execute a meticulous plan of reaching a Maoist hideout — deep inside hostile territory — in 12 hours, covering a distance of 16 kilometres in pitch darkness without raising an alarm. He was to coordinate with Jaishankar: Going for multilateral event, not to discuss India-Pak ties NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 5 VARINDER BHATIA EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE SCO VISIT TO PAK OCT 15-16 SHUBHAJIT ROY As Congress eyes power in Haryana, CM aspirants swell Independents & small parties may outnumber PDP in J&K House; AAP unlikely to make mark in Haryana Arms seized after the encounter on Friday. Express for a “multilateral event”. Speaking at the Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance organized by ICCentrefor Governance in New Delhi, Jaishankar said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Behind Centre’s nod for Chennai Metro II, signal to NDA allies and DMK ARUN JANARDHANAN CHENNAI, OCTOBER 5 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar his counterpart, Deputy SP Prashant Dewangan, and his team coming in from Narayanpur, as well as the Special Task Force, to surround theMaoistsbeforethefirstrayof sunlight could alert them. Itwasthispinpointcoordination that went into the single largest Maoist encounter in Chhattisgarh’s24-yearhistory— thetollstoodat31onSaturday— conducted without the security forcessufferingasinglecasualty. Importantly, it came deep THE UNION Cabinet’s move to approve Phase II of the Chennai Metro Rail project on Thursday and clear the Central counterpart funding came less than a week after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 27 . The Centre’s decision will facilitateasmoothexecutionof the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E EXPLAINED BUSINESS AS USUAL FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT ● Seen as politically strategic THE CABINET’S clearance after a delay of over three years is seen as politically strategic since it will help smoothen BJP-DMK and Centre-state relations. This also gives a signal to NDA allies, who are seen as “increasingly demanding” by some in the BJP. ‘Dacoit attacks’: Cops sound warning amid rise in assault incidents in Vadodara villages PAGE 1 ANCHOR ADITI RAJA VADODARA, OCTOBER 5 DO NOT take law into your hands or face a severe punishment for harassing passersby: this is the warning that police have sounded for locals in rural parts of Vadodara in video messages released on Saturday to counter the rumours of “dacoit An incident of assault was reported from Naramada, on September 26, File attacks”. These rumours that have been doing rounds lately, officialssay,promptedattackson passersby by villagers who assumed they were "thieves". The video messages by Vadodara Police come days after a foreign student of Parul University was assaulted by villagers in Waghodia taluka while he was passing by the area during a cycling trip. Paayo Eric, a BSc Neurology student who is a citizen of Papua New Guinea, was allegedly accosted by a group of residents of the Akadiyapura on September 30 and assaulted with sticks and other objects when he could not reply to the questions asked to him in Gujarati. The 20-year-old student was rescued and shifted to a private hospital for treatment. He suffered serious injuries while 15 people were booked and arrested in the case, said police. The incident was among the cases reported from Central Gujaratwhile similar alleged attacks were also reported from Chhota Udepur and CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Ahmedabad