eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Forever Rekha LUCKNOW,LATECITY OCTOBER6,2024 As Rekha turns 70 next week, a look at her enigma and legacy 14+4PAGES,`6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA BY UNNY Yati ‘detained’, BJP MLA adds fuel, says temple attacked, calls for ‘encounter’ Triggered protests with latest remarks on Islam NEETIKA JHA GHAZIABAD, OCTOBER 5 TWO DAYS after an FIR was registered against him for objectionable remarks against Islam, Yati Narsinghanand, the controversial head priest of the Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad,islearnttohavebeen detained by the Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday. While there was no official statement, a police officer confirmed this to The Indian Express. According to a PTI report, his CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPRESS NETWORK EX-PRINCIPAL TRIED TO SHOW R G KAR CASE AS SUICIDE: CBI JUNIOR DOCTORS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE PAGE 8 OVER 66% POLLING IN HARYANA; RESULTS ON OCTOBER 8 Cong likely to win in Haryana, its alliance with NC has edge in J&K, show exit polls NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 5 THECONGRESSislikelytoreturn to power in Haryana after a decade,andhasanedgebutmay missthehalfwaymarkinJammu andKashmir,whereitfoughtthe Assembly elections in alliance with the National Conference, according to most exit polls on Saturday. InJ&K,whereAssemblyelections were held after 10 years — the first after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 — some polls predicted a hung House while CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 A DAY after the government announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will lead theIndiandelegationtoPakistan for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Councilof Headsof Government on October 15-16, the Minister saidhewasn’tgoingtheretodiscuss India-Pakistanrelationsbut CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 5 Polling in Julana Assembly constituency, from which Olympian Vinesh Phogat is contesting on a Congress ticket, on Saturday. Gajendra Yadav HARYANASEES66.49%TURNOUT,PAGE5 WHAT THE EXIT POLLS HAVE FORECAST J&K Cong-NC PDP BJP 6-12 27-32 HARYANA Others IndiaToday CVoter 40-48 6-11 Dainik Bhaskar 35-40 4-7 20-25 12-18 Gulistan News 31-36 5-7 28-30 8-16 Axis My India 35-45 4-6 24-34 8-23 BJP Cong Others Dainik Bhaskar DECISION 2024 In 2014, before J&K was split into 2 UTs, PDP won 28 seats, BJP 25, NC 15, Congress 12 15-29 44-54 7-14 Republic Matrize 18-24 55-62 5-14 IndiaToday CVoter 20-28 50-58 10-16 Axis My India 18-28 53-65 4-13 2019 tally in Haryana BJP 40 Cong 31 JJP 10 Others 9 THE COUNTING of votes for the Haryana Assembly polls will take place on October 8, but the chief ministerial race in the OppositionCongresshasalready heated up. As polling for all 90 seats in Haryana was taking place Saturday,seniorCongressleaders started claiming that the party wouldgetan“absolutemajority”, with some of them not shying awayfromprojectingthemselves as probable CM candidates. While staking their claims, they also said that it was the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PM IN MAHARASHTRA INAUGURATES UNDERGROUND METRO LINE IN MUMBAI SAYS CONG IS BEING RUN BY GANG OF URBAN NAXALS PAGE6 Amethi murders suspect injured in shootout while trying to escape: Cops MANISH SAHU LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 5 A 28-YEAR-OLD MURDER suspect, who was arrested in connection with the killing of a governmentschoolteacher, hiswife and two minor daughters in Amethi,wasinjuredonSaturday while “attempting to escape after snatching a police sub-inspector’s service pistol and opening fire”, officers said. The accused, Chandan Verma, suffered a bullet injury on his right leg. He is now stable, Jaishankar: Going for multilateral event, not to discuss India-Pak ties NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 5 VARINDER BHATIA EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE SCO VISIT TO PAK OCT 15-16 SHUBHAJIT ROY As Congress eyes power in Haryana, CM aspirants swell Independents & small parties may outnumber PDP in J&K House; AAP unlikely to make mark in Haryana doctors said. Verma was arrested on Friday for his alleged involvement in the murder of 37-yearoldteacherSunilKumar,hiswife Poonam Bharti (32) and their two daughters, aged five and two, whose bodies were found inside their house in Amethi on Thursday night. On Saturday, on the basis of information provided by Verma, the police took him to the Mohanganjareaof Amethitorecover the weapon used in the crime and the motorcycle he used to reach the for a “multilateral event”. Speaking at the Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance organized by ICCentrefor Governance in New Delhi, Jaishankar said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Behind Centre’s nod for Chennai Metro II, signal to NDA allies and DMK ARUN JANARDHANAN CHENNAI, OCTOBER 5 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar victims' residence. AdditionalSuperintendentof Police,Amethi,HarendraKumar, said, “When they reached the area, the accused snatched SubInspector Madan Kumar’s gun and opened fire on the police team. In retaliation, the police fired back, injuring Verma, who was then taken to a hospital.” The police said Verma is the prime suspect in the murder of the family in Amethi. Policeclaimedthatduringinterrogation, Verma allegedly admitted to having been in a THE UNION Cabinet’s move to approve Phase II of the Chennai Metro Rail project on Thursday and clear the Central counterpart funding came less than a week after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 27 . The Centre’s decision will facilitateasmoothexecutionof the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E EXPLAINED BUSINESS AS USUAL FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT ● Seen as politically strategic THE CABINET’S clearance after a delay of over three years is seen as politically strategic since it will help smoothen BJP-DMK and Centre-state relations. This also gives a signal to NDA allies, who are seen as “increasingly demanding” by some in the BJP. No strangers to tough ascents, two stranded mountaineers in Uttarakhand await miracle PAGE 1 ANCHOR AVANEESH MISHRA DEHRADUN, OCTOBER 5 OVER THE past year, British alpinist Fay Manners has made eight significant first ascents — from the Pakistan’s Trango II with its demanding “Waa Shakil” trek to being the first to ascend “Mental Breakdown”, a 765-metre rock climbing route UK national Fay Manners (left) and Michelle Dvorak, from the US, have been stranded at Chaukhamba massif, having lost all communication after Thursday afternoon. Instagran on Father Tower in Greenland’s Mythic Cirque. But it is her latest trek to Chaukhamba-III, one of the four peaks of the Chaukhamba massif in Uttarakhand’s Garhwal Himalayas, that’s proving to be her greatest challenge. For the last two days, Manners (37) and her fellow mountaineer Michelle Dvorak (31), a climate science PhD student from Washington, USA, have been stranded at an altitude of 6,300 metres after losing CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Lucknow