eye MCS/204/2020-22RNINO.MAHENG2002/21899 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE The Theatre Wallah MUMBAI,LATE CITY MAY 19, 2024 A new biography of Ebrahim Alkazi offers an intimate look 16+4 PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA P6 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 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 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 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 19/05/2024 127 155 193 78 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 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 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, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E E X P L A I NE D ‘THIS ELECTION, BJP WILL BREAK CERTAIN MYTHS THAT WILL SURPRISE ALL’ J P NADDA AAP in uncharted ● territory 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. World watching one corrupt cover another 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 ‘CBI, ED should be shut… will propose Ex-sarpanch gunned Ready to debate with Modi, it to INDIA bloc parties’: Akhilesh down, Jaipur couple but he will not come: Rahul THE NEERJA CHOWDHURY COLUMN DEPARTMENTS LIKE the Enforcement Directorate and CBI are not needed and should be shut down, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said, adding that he would propose the same to the INDIA bloc. “CBIaurEDbandhonechahiye “They are used agar sarkar (The CBI and ED should be banaani hai, ya giraani hai (to shut)... If youhavecheated, there formgovernments,orbreakgovis the Income Tax departernments),” Akhilesh said, ment to deal with it. Why asking why hadn’t the do you need the CBI? agencies, for example, inEvery state has an Antivestigated “what went Corruption Department, wrong during demonetiuse it if needed,” Akhilesh DECISION sation”. “How did people 2024 said in an interview to The convert their black money Indian Express, addingthat into white?” the agencies are being used only But would an INDIA governagainst political adversaries of ment be ready to take such a farthe BJP. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 shot at in Valley NAVEED IQBAL SRINAGAR, MAY 18 ONTHE day campaigningended 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 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 GAYATHRI MANI NEW DELHI, MAY 18 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 lakhto women in poor households. “Pehli naukri yojana...we will make a list of graduates, postgraduates,diplomaholders...and will give them first right to permanent jobs… They’ll have a year-long job. And the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2