eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE The Theatre Wallah NEWDELHI,LATECITY MAY19,2024 A new biography of Ebrahim Alkazi offers an intimate look 18+4PAGES,`7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, ` 12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA P8 FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT BIBHAV HELD WHILE BAIL PLEA WAS BEING HEARD; SENT TO 5-DAY CUSTODY His aide held for assault, Kejriwal says INTERVIEW will march to BJP headquarters today THE EXPRESS BJP PRESIDENT PoK will be in India within 6 months of Modi as PM again: Yogi UP CM Yogi Adityanath with BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate Ujjwal Nikam, in Mumbai. PTI VALLABH OZARKAR MUMBAI, MAY 18 UTTAR PRADESH Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said Saturday that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)willbeapartofIndiawithin sixmonthsofNarendraModibecoming “Prime Minister for the third time after the elections”. Addressing an election rally in Vasai in Palghar district of Maharashtra, Adityanath said, “Wewillnotworshipourenemy if they attack us. If someone kills our people, we will not worship them but give them an answer theydeserve.Now,ithasbecome difficultforPakistantosavePoK.” “Once Modi Ji becomes PrimeMinisterforthethirdtime after the elections, you will see CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Medical report says Maliwal has bruises on cheek, thigh Other AAP leaders will be held soon, says CM; party steps up attack on Maliwal PM attacks AAP, Cong: NIRBHAY THAKUR & ANKITA UPADHYAY EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE PM Narendra Modi with Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva and party’s LS candidate Manoj Tiwari in Delhi. Tashi Tobgyal NEW DELHI, MAY 18 NEW DELHI, MAY 18 TWO DAYS after he was booked on the charge of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at the Chief Minister’s residence, Bibhav Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal’s aide,wasarrestedbyDelhiPolice Saturday afternoon while his plea for anticipatory bail plea wasbeingheardattheTisHazari Courts. Informed about Bibhav’s arrest, Additional Sessions Judge SHORTLY AFTER his aide Bibhav Kumarwasarrestedforallegedly assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at the CM residence on May 13, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Saturday that he and AAP senior leaders, MPs and MLAs would court arrestoutsidetheBJPheadquarters in New Delhi on Sunday. Claiming that his party leaderswerebeingtargeted,Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar at the Tis Hazari court complex on Saturday Sushil Anuj Tyagi said the plea had become infructuous. Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Kumar Srivastava informed the court via video conference that Bibhav was arrested at 4:15 pm. He had been detained from theChief Minister’sresidencefor questioning around noon. Late in the evening, Bibhav was produced before the court CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NAVEED IQBAL SRINAGAR, MAY 18 ON THEdaycampaigning ended for the Lok Sabha polls in Baramulla constituency, militants shot dead a former sarpanch who was with the BJP and injured a couple from Jaipur in separate attacks in south Kashmir. The attacks come days after Srinagar saw the highest polling in almost three decades, at 38%. Traditionally, both Baramulla, which votes on May 20, and Anantnag (now renamed Anantnag-Rajouri), which votes on May 25, have seen even higher voting than the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat. According to the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the couple from Jaipur were targeted in the first attack in Anantnag. “Terrorists fired upon and injured a lady, Farha, resident of Jaipur, and spouse Tabrez at Yannar, Anantnag. Injured evacuated to hospital for treatment,” the police said in a statement. In Shopian district, a former CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ON PACT WITH TMC After Kharge snub, Adhir says: Can’t welcome one who wants to finish Cong THE NEERJA CHOWDHURY COLUMN RAVIK BHATTACHARYA & MANOJ CG KOLKATA, NEW DELHI, MAY 18 HOURS AFTER Congress presidentMallikarjunKhargesaidthe party’s West Bengal unit chief Adhir Chowdhury is “nobody to make decisions” on the alliance with TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, Chowdhury said he cannot“welcome”apersonwho CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 “REJOICE BROTHERS and sisters, Rejoice!Today,after451yearsof alien rule, Goa is free and united withtheMotherland.Ourbrothers are there to protect you.” Onthemorningof December 19,1961—thedayGoawasliberated from Portuguese rule — Libia Lobo Sardesai and her colleagueVamanSardesaiflewover Panaji and other parts of Goa in an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane with a radio transmitter aboard and a loudspeaker fitted on the plane’s belly, dropping leaflets and announcing in Portuguese andKonkanithatthePortuguese had surrendered. “That was the last broadcast by our secret radio station,” recalls 99-year-old Libia at her house in Panaji. The underground voice of Goa’s liberation struggle, Libia turns 100 on May 25. To commemorate her pivotal role in the coastal state’s liberation struggle, Israel-based street artist and Says INDIA bloc out to destroy Delhi with their ‘politics of appeasement’ JATIN ANAND NEW DELHI, MAY 18 TAKING A swipe at the AAP and theCongressovercorruptionand blaming the “opportunistic” INDIA bloc for “inciting violence for thesakeof appeasement,endangeringcommunalharmony”duringtheanti-CAAprotestsandthe Northeast Delhi riots, Prime MinisterNarendraModiaskedthe citizens of Delhi to keep in mind the goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’ when they go out to vote on May 25. Addressing a public meeting in Ghonda in Northeast Delhi – this was his first campaign rally intheCapital– ModisaidtheINDIA bloc was “bent upon destroying Delhi” with its “appeasement politics” while he was working “24x7 for 2047”. He met refugee families who have been granted Indian citizenshipfollowingnotificationof CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 GAYATHRI MANI NEW DELHI, MAY 18 PHASE 5 CAMPAIGNING ENDS At an EVM distribution centre in Ladakh as campaigning for the 5th phase of polls ended on Saturday. Voting will be held on May 20. Reuters DECISION2024,PAGES6,7 BUNDELKHAND, UTTAR PRADESH Safety net in place, labharthis want more: jobs, exams on time UTTAR PRADESH Mallikarjun Kharge; Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. File World watching one corrupt cover another Ready to debate with Modi, but he will not come, says Rahul VOTE SHARES % 2019 BANDA JHANSI BJP BJP 58.59 SP Jalaun 46.18 40.49 SP 32.12 Banda JALAUN HAMIRPUR BJP Jhansi 51.45 BJP 52.76 BSP 37.44 BSP 29.95 Hamirpur HARIKISHAN SHARMA JHANSI, MAHOBA, BANDA, CHITRAKOOT, MAY 18 OVER THE past 10 years, the Narendra Modi government has knit a net of welfare schemes that, at their widest, provide a cushion to around 22 crore families. This “labharthi varg” has paid rich dividends for the BJP in successive elections, prompting Opposition parties to promise andimplementtheirownbasket CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 As her mural comes up in Panaji, the muse, who fought for Goa liberation and is now 100, looks on from home PANAJI, MAY 18 WITH ED naming AAP as accused in the PMLA case, there can be larger implications — from holding “every person” of the party involved in decision-making liable, attachment of property to larger issues of a level playing field in a democracy. Ex-sarpanch gunned down, Jaipur couple shot at in Valley terview to The Indian Express, adding that the agencies are being used only against political adversaries of the BJP. “They are used agar sarkar banaani hai, ya giraani hai (to formgovernments,orbreakgovDEPARTMENTS LIKE the Enfo- ernments),” Akhilesh said, askrcement Directorate and CBI are ing why hadn’t the agencies, for not needed and should be shut example, investigated “what down, Samajwadi Party chief went wrong during demonetiAkhilesh Yadav has said, sation”. “How did people adding that he would proconvert their black money pose the same to the INinto white?” DIA bloc. But would an INDIA “CBI aur ED band hone DECISION government be ready to 2024 chahiye (The CBI and ED take such a far-reaching should be shut)... If you step if it came to power? have cheated, there is the “This is my proposal and I will Income Tax department to deal put this before the INDIA alwith it. Why do you need the liance,” Akhilesh said. CBI? Every state has an AntiSpeakingtoTheIndianExpress Corruption Department, use it if while travelling from Lucknow needed,” Akhilesh said in an inCONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA AAP in uncharted ● territory DAYS AFTER RECORD SRINAGAR TURNOUT ‘CBI, ED should be shut… will propose it to INDIA bloc parties’: Akhilesh PAGE 1 ANCHOR E E X P L A I NE D ‘THIS ELECTION, BJP WILL BREAK CERTAIN MYTHS THAT WILL SURPRISE ALL’ J P NADDA The mural has been painted on a wall across the road from 99-year-old Libia Lobo Sardesai’s house. Pavneet Singh Chadha painter Solomon Souza, the grandson of pioneering modernist painter from Goa Francis Newton Souza, has painted her mural on a wall across the road fromherhouse.“Itoldhimtoput more light in my eyes,” she says, looking on from her balcony. For six years from 1955 to 1961 — when Goan nationalist movement gained momentum and in the backdrop of suspension of all civil liberties under a Portuguese dictatorship in Goa — Libia and Vaman set up an underground radio station in the junglesontheoutskirtsof Goato CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONGRESS LEADER Rahul Gandhi on Saturday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a public debate even as he targeted him again over his “links” with “22-25 rich businessmen”. Speaking at his first rally in Delhi ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Rahul made a string of promises — including Rs 1 lakh to unemployed youth, 10-kg ration,besidesRs1 lakh to women in poor households. Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Saturday. Abhinav Saha “Pehli naukri yojana...we will make a list of graduates, postgraduates,diplomaholders...and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2