eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE The original showman LUCKNOW,LATECITY DECEMBER15,2024 What made Raj Kapoor an awaara and why he felt making a popular film was the hardest thing to do FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT 14+4 PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA REPLY TO DISCUSSION IN LOK SABHA In Sambhal, district officials reopen ‘ancient temple’ closed since 1978 PM:NehrutoRahul,Conginflicted repeatedblowsonConstitution NIRBHAY THAKUR, DEEPTIMAN TIWARY & AMIT SHARMA Counters Cong pitch on caste census, quota; reiterates commitment to UCC SAMBHAL, NEW DELHI, MEERUT, DECEMBER 14 THE DISTRICT administration in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday reopened an “ancient temple”, which had reportedly beenclosedsince1978,claiming to have “stumbled upon” it during an ongoing drive against power theft. Officials said a Hanuman statueanda Shivlingwerefound at the temple in Khaggu Sarai area, not far from the Shahi Jama Masjid where a court had ordered a survey last month. Four CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 THE WORLD S KOREAN PRESIDENT IMPEACHED OVER MARTIAL LAW FIASCO PAGE 11 Rahul invokes Eklavya: ‘Govt cutting thumbs of youth, small businesses’ ASAD REHMAN NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in Lok Sabha. PTI MANOJ C G NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 ACCUSING THE Congress of inflicting repeated blows on the Constitution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said theNehru-Gandhifamily—from India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi to Leader of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PAGE 6 PARTICIPATING IN the special debateontheConstitutioninthe Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi reiterated the Congress’s promise to hold a caste census and work towards removing the 50% cap on reservation, but added another layer to his social justice pitch. In his speech on the second day of the debate, Gandhi questioned the BJP over Hindutva ideologueVDSavarkar’ssupport for the Manusmriti “over the Constitution”, and invoked Eklavya, the noted archer from the Mahabharata, to make his case for deprived youngsters kept out of the system. “In front of us stand people who follow a very different WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM JUSTICE SHEKHAR KUMAR YADAV AT VHP EVENT ON HC PREMISES Under fire for ‘hate speech,’ HC judge is called by SC Collegium for meeting SHYAMLAL YADAV Justice Yadav framed UCC as a Hindu vs Muslim debate NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 THE FOCUS of an impeachment bid in the Rajya Sabha where the Opposition has accused him of “hate speech” and “incitement to communal disharmony,” Allahabad High Court judge JusticeShekharKumarYadavhas been called by the Supreme Court Collegium for a meeting nextweek,TheIndianExpresshas learnt.The meeting may be held as early as December 17. The Collegium is headed by CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 YOGI BACKS JUDGE PAGE 3 Houseversus in-house THE SC step comes even as 55 Rajya Sabha MPs moved a notice on December 13 for a motion to impeach Justice Yadav. Given the NDA numbers in both the Houses, that looks like a non-starter. So how SC deals with this is significant. The other India link: Gukesh, rival used chess set made in Amritsar NAMIT KUMAR LoP Rahul Gandhi holds copies of the Constitution and the Manusmriti in LS. PTI philosophical tradition. And I wanttostartmyspeechbyquoting what the supreme leader — not of the BJP, but of the modern interpretation of the ideas of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AMRITSAR, DECEMBER 14 PATIENTLY PERCHED over a drilling machine, Baljit Singh picks tiny, polished wooden chunks and begins, with utmost nonchalance, to carve them into the trickiest chess piece there is to craft: the knight. This no-frills facility in a bustling Amritsar lane is far CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Baljit Singh carves a knight in Amritsar. Namit Kumar Lucknow