eye MCS/204/2020-22RNINO.MAHENG2002/21899 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT When the Wallflower Blooms LUCKNOW,LATECITY MAY12,2024 14+4PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY ‘SEXUAL HARASSMENT’ I got another video, pen drive: Mamata attacks Bengal Governor over allegations ATRI MITRA KOLKATA, MAY 11 WEST BENGAL Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday claimed she has “another video, pen drive” of Governor CV Ananda Bose, who has been accused by a Raj Bhavan contractualstafferof sexualharassment. Her attack comes days after the Raj Bhavan showed CCTV footage of the premises from May 2 — the day of the alleged incident—toaround100people. At an election rally in WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM DAY AFTER RELEASE ON INTERIM BAIL, CITES PM ‘RULE’ OF RETIREMENT AT 75 If you vote for BJP, you are voting for Amit Shah (as PM), not Modi: Kejriwal NIRMALA, NADDA, YOGI ALSO HIT BACK ‘PM on 1-nation, 1-leader mission, Opp leaders will be held, those in BJP sidelined’ BJP top brass counters: Modi to complete 3rd term, remain leader MALLICA JOSHI NEW DELHI, MAY 11 OPENING A new front in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday “warned” that with Prime Minister Narendra Modi turning 75 next September, thosevotingfortheBJPwouldbe voting for Amit Shah (as PM). Kejriwalalsolaunchedanall-out Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann attack on Modi, accusing him of in Mehrauli on Saturday. Tashi Tobgyal. carrying out a “one-nation, oneleader” mission at “two-levels” tional convenor said: September 17 next year. He — by arresting Opposition “These people ask the IN- made a rule in 2014 that people leaders, and sidelining DIA bloc who will be your in the BJP must retire at 75 those within the BJP. Prime Minister? I ask the years... So, I want to ask the BJP Addressing a gathering BJP who will be your who is your Prime Ministerial at the party headquarters here, a day after his release DECISION Prime Minister?... Modi ji candidate?” 2024 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 is turning 75 on oninterimbail,theAAPna- No age bar, no confusion, says Shah; Opp in panic, aim to mislead: Nadda VIKAS PATHAK & SREENIVAS JANYALA NEW DELHI, HYDERABAD, MAY 11 THETOPbrassoftheBJPrushedin Saturday to rally around Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal’sclaimthatthepurported age-bar of 75 in the BJP would meanthatModi,73,could,ifhegot a third term, step down in September2025,makingwayfor Amit Shah to become CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Home Minister Amit Shah in Hyderabad Saturday. PTI LUCKNOW, MAY 11 A 45-YEAR-OLD businessman in Sitapur allegedly murdered his Early Saturday morning, the police were informed about multiple murders and a suicide at a residence in Palapur village, Sitapur Superintendent of Police Chakresh Mishra said in SUJIT BISOYI BHUBANESWAR, MAY 11 PRIMEMINISTERNarendraModi onSaturdaysaid“thecountryhas decided that the Congress will notevenbetheOppositionparty as its numbers will fall to below 50”, pointing out that the party needsatleastone-tenthofthetotalLokSabhaseatstobethemain Opposition party. Addressinga rally atOdisha’s Phulbani under Kandhamal Lok Sabhaconstituency,Modireiterated that the NDA would cross the 400-mark while the BJP wouldbreakitspastrecord.“You takemywordonrecord,”hesaid. Modi also accused the Congressof spreadingfearbyrepeatedly stating that Pakistan ASAD REHMAN & RITIKA CHOPRA NEW DELHI, MAY 11 UP man kills mother, wife & 3 minor kids, ends life mother, wife and three minor children,beforedyingbysuicide, police said on Saturday. Anurag Singh was intellectually challengedandbattlinganaddiction, officers said. Cong spreading fear over Pak, tally will fall below 50: Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a public meeting in Odisha’s Kandhamal district on Saturday. PTI has nuclear weapons. Speaking on the anniversary of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Complaint on turnout our EVM moment, had to respond, says EC official CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MANISH SAHU As a new season of Bridgerton arrives, a look at the perks of being a wallflower a statement. A police team reached the house and found the bodies of two minor children outside and the other bodies inside. A senior CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 RESPONDING TO the scathing rejoinder from the Election Commission (EC) regarding his allegations about voter turnout data, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote back to the poll watchdog Saturday, stating that although he has “misgivings” about thelanguage used in the EC’s letter, hewill not dwell on that issue as he understands “the pressures” EC is “working under”. However, a senior officer of the Commission told The Sunday Express that Kharge’s accusations were akin to the EC’s “EVM moment of 2019”, one where the fundamental integrity of the process was being questioned without any evidence. And so the institution had to put its foot down to unequivocally make its case . CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 BJD’s VK Pandian campaigns in Odisha’s Hinjili. Sujit Bisoyi IN ODISHA, UPHILL TASK FOR BJP As Patnaik, his schemes put BJD on course, BJP banks on PM Modi LIZ MATHEW & SUJIT BISOYI SAMBALPUR, HINJILI, MAY 11 “WE HAVE good schemes for women, elderly people and youngsters. Naveen (Patnaik) babu has taken care of us very well,”saidSharatKanar,aresident of KadligarhvillageinSambalpur district,afirst-timevoterinthesimultaneous Odisha Assembly (147 seats) and Lok Sabha (21 seats)electionsbeginningMay13. “It’s true that more needs to bedonetoprovidejobstoyouths because many of us have to migrate from Odisha.Sowehaveto CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ‘Today we can look Brij Bhushan in the face, and say: We are not going anywhere’ Vinesh Phogat SPECIAL TO THE EXPRESS RIGHT FROM the morning of Friday, May 10, my fellow wrestlers and I were waiting to know what happens in court. We had logged in online but the connection had snapped for a while. Later in the afternoon, it was someone from our team of lawyers who informed Sakshi (Malik) that charges have been framed. I was at training when Vinesh Phogat after beating Kyrgyzstan’s Laura Ganikyzy last month. United World Wrestling/Kadir Caliskan I got the news. The framing of charges (sexual harassment and outraging modesty of women) against CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Lucknow