DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2024, AHMEDABAD, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES Calling it VIBRANT GUJARAT GLOBAL SUMMIT ‘BJP-RSS’ event, Cong to skip Ram temple opening on January 22 Industry captains pledge investments worth over Rs 2 lakh crore on Day 1 MANOJ C G NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10 ARGUINGTHATtheconsecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 was “clearly an RSS-BJP event”, the Congress Wednesday “respectfully declined” the invitation extended to its leaders Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to attend what it calledtheinaugurationof an“incomplete temple”. Among INDIA partners, the CPI(M) was the first to declare thatitsgeneralsecretarySitaram Yechury,whoreceivedaninvitation from the Trust, would not attend the event. With the Congress announcing its decision to stay away, other Opposition parties in the INDIA group such as the Trinamool Congress and RJD also indicated they might keep off. While declining the invite, the Congress – which has oscillated and vacillated on the issue historically – argued that CONTINUEDONPAGE4 Congress dilemma THE CONGRESS in 2019 welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on the case, but was caught in a political dilemma over the invitation. A section felt it should not “give legitimacy” to the BJP-RSS project but another worried about the electoral fallout in the Hindi heartland. `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 `` Jai Jawan " Jai Kisan Announcements in renewable energy, semiconductor, green mobility sectors SOHINI GHOSH, PARIMAL DABHI & LEENA MISRA GANDHINAGAR, JANUARY 10 ORGANISED AFTER five years, the 10th edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS), themed on ‘gateway to the future’ and pitched as the 'first in Amrit Kaal', saw industry captains pledging investments worth nearly Rs 2,38,200 crore in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of the three-day event on Wednesday. The announcements were mostly made in the sectors of green mobility, renewable energy and semiconductors. Tata Sons’ Chairman N Chandrasekharan, who traced the group’s origins in Gujarat from Jamshedji Tata’s birthplace NavsaritothefirstcompanyTata Chemicals founded in 1939, said thatthegroupwasnowexpanding its footprint from Sanand to BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY INSIDE ‘INDIA TO BE A $5 TRN ECONOMY BY FY28; PUSHING FOR SUNRISE SECTORS’ PAGES 5, 14 Dholera Special Investment Region. The Tata group would also expand the C295 aircraft manufacturing from Vadodara to Dholera. On October 30, 2022, Modi had laid the foundation stone in Vadodaraof aC295aircraftmanufacturing plant of the TataAirbus consortium, which will manufacture the transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force. Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, Mukesh Ambani, and Chairman of Adani Group, GautamAdani–theonlyindustry CONTINUEDONPAGE4 AHMEDABAD, JANUARY 10 PAGE 10 PM: World looks at India as an important pillar of stability PARIMAL DABHI GANDHINAGAR, JANUARY 10 PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India has emerged as a ray of hope amid global uncertainties, and the world looks at it as a pillar of stability, a trusted friend and an engine of growth in the global economy. “The world looks at India as an important pillar of stability. A friend who can be trusted, a partner who believes in peoplecentric development, a voice that believes in global good, a voice of the global south, an ON MONDAY, hours after the Supreme Court quashed the early release granted by the Gujarat government to the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, she said, “I smiled for the first time in over a year-and-a-half... It feels like a stone the size of a mountain has been lifted from mychest,andIcanbreatheagain. This is what justice feels like.” But for the youngest prosecution witness in the case, Bilkis's cousin, who has lived with the trauma of seeing his mother and elder sister being killed by the mob, the verdict isn't much of a salve. His voice quivering, he says Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi nd pays homage to the 2 Prime Minister of India Bharat Ratna Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (October 02, 1904 - January 11, 1966) th on his 58 Punyatithi CONTINUEDONPAGE4 Now 28, youngest eyewitness in Bilkis case says: ‘Want my nightmares to end’ ADITI RAJA & SOHINI GHOSH SPEAKER: SHINDE SENA ‘REAL PARTY’ PM Narendra Modi at the inauguration of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. PTI on the phone to The Indian Express, “They are not innocent. They are convicted murderers. They deserved the death penalty... Nothing can change what I have lost. 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