eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Who stole my Butter Chicken? AHMEDABAD,LATECITY FEBRUARY4,2024 The dish is in the soup of its own making — over the question of who invented it 16+4PAGES,`6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA THE WORLD DAYS AFTER AWARD CONFERRED ON EX-BIHAR CM KARPOORI THAKUR NEARLY 40 DEAD AS U.S. HITS IRAN-LINKED SITES IN SYRIA, IRAQ IMRAN, WIFE GET 7-YR JAIL IN UNLAWFUL MARRIAGE CASE Hiscontribution monumental:PM; Honourforideals, principles:Advani Journey’s long arc: Rath Yatra to BJP architect, Atal No. 2 to margdarshak VIKAS PATHAK VIKAS PATHAK PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi announced Saturday the government would confer BharatRatna,thecountry’shighest civilian award, on BJP stalwart and former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani. “I am very happy to share thatShriLKAdvanijiwillbeconferred the Bharat Ratna. I also IT WAS IN 1989 that the Bharatiya Janata Party under LK Advani had taken a decisiveideologicalstance. Giving up Gandhian socialism as the motto thatAtalBihariVajpayee had been promoting, the party supported the Ram Janmabhoomi movement of the RSS and VHP through the FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT PAGE 14 Maldives says Indian Coast Guard flouted maritime law, seeks report PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Bharat Ratna for L K Advani, BJP’s poll message clear: Social justice, Hindutva NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 3 BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani is congratulated by daughter Pratibha Advani at their residence in New Delhi, Saturday. ANI PRAISE, POTSHOTS FROM OPPOSITION PAGE 9 Palampur resolution of 1989, which called for the site to be handed over to Hindus either through a negotiated processor legislation. The party had openly embraced Hindutva. Advani followed this up with a Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya from September 25, 1990. January 22, 2024, could well be seen as the culmination of the Yatra that CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MALE, FEBRUARY 3 THEMALDIVES’governmenthas formally requested the Indian government to provide “comprehensive details” of an incident in which its Coast Guard personnel allegedly boarded three Maldivian fishing vessels operating within its economic zone. Thedevelopmentisthelatest in the diplomatic row between the two nations that led to the strain in bilateral ties after President Mohamed Muizzu, widelyseenasapro-Chinaleader, came to power in November last year in the Maldives. There was no immediate response from the Indian government to the Maldivian allegations. On January 31, the Indian Army intercepted a Maldivian fishing boat engaged in fishing activities within the Maldives’ SpecialEconomicZone(EEZ),located72nauticalmilesnortheast of Dhidhdhoo,HaaAlifuAtoll,the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ED moves Delhi court day after Kejriwal skips fifth summons PROFBOOKEDFOR ‘PRAISINGGODSE’ P11 LADAKHSHUTSDOWN FORSTATEHOOD P9 Punjab Governor resigns, cites personal reasons NAVJEEVAN GOPAL CHANDIGARH, FEBRUARY 3 A DAY after he met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi, PunjabGovernorandChandigarh AdministratorBanwarilalPurohit resignedonSaturday,citing“personal reasons”. “Due to my personal reasons andcertainothercommitments,I Banwarilal Purohit quit day after he met Amit Shah. File tender my resignation from the post of the Governor of Punjab and Administrator, Union CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NIRBHAY THAKUR NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 3 A DAY after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal skipped the Enforcement Directorate's summons for the fifth time, the ED filed a complaint against him in a court here on Saturday. TheEDmadeitssubmissions before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Divya Malhotra, who will hear the matter on February 7. While the ED has sought to question Kejriwal in the case related to the AAP government's now-scrapped excise policy, the Delhi CM has called the summons “illegal”. Questioning the summons, he has said that he A Delhi Police team outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Saturday. Praveen Khanna has not been named as an accused in the case. Three senior AAP leaders – former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and AAP communications in-charge Vijay Nair -have already been arrested by the ED in the case. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Islamic cleric booked for BJP MLA shoots at ‘inflammatory speech’ in Shinde Sena leader in Gujarat; two arrested police station, arrested PRESS TRUST OF INDIA JUNAGADH, FEBRUARY 3 AN ISLAMIC cleric was booked in Gujarat's Junagadh on Saturday after a video of an alleged inflammatory speech delivered by him was widely shared on social media. Two men who organised the event where he delivered the speech have been arrested, said police. Police were trying to trace the cleric, Mumbai resident Mufti Salman Azhari, said Superintendent of Police Harshad Mehta. The speech was delivered at an event held in an opengroundnearthe'B'division police station in Junagadh on Wednesday night, he said. After the video went viral, an FIR was registered against Azhari and local organisers Mohammad Yousuf Malek and Azim Habib Odedara under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 153-B (promoting enmity between CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SAGAR RAJPUT ULHASNAGAR, FEBRUARY 3 A BJP MLA, Ganpat Gaikwad from Kalyan East, has been arrested for shooting at a local Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) leader inside a police station in Ulhasnagar, in Thane district of Maharashtra, on Friday night, police said. Two of the MLA's associates have also been arrested. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 GanpatGaikwadbeingtaken toacourtinThane. Deepak Joshi AN OLD, UGLY TURF WAR FOR KALYAN PAGE10 Cat scan: In Gujarat, trackers walk extra mile to keep Asiatic lions safe PAGE 1 ANCHOR GOPAL KATESHIYA KHADKALA (AMRELI), FEB 3 AS THE January sun sets, Yasin Juneja,39,aforesterwiththeforestdepartmentsetsoutinhisofficial camper van from the range forest officer’s (RFO) office at Savarkundla in Gujarat’s Amreli district. Leaving a plume of dust behind,thevantraversesadirttrack A railway tracker patrols the railway line in Gujarat’s Badhada village. Gopal Kateshiya between cotton fields and reaches a stretch of PipavavSurendranagar railway track in Amrutvel, a village 11 km away fromSavarkundlaineasternpart of Amreli district. The earthen embankmentisthehighestpoint in this part of Shetrunji river floodplains,whicharepartof the revenuebeatof Gir(East)wildlife division’s Savarkundla range. Satisfied that the embankment is clear of vegetation — meaning better visibility for forest department’s trackers and loco pilots in spotting lions BISCUITS CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Ahmedabad