DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● POSTAL REGN. NO. JAIPUR CITY/001/2024-26 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2024, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 ‘ABUSE OF POWER... CAN’T BE TOLERATED’ SC slams bulldozer action, lists demolition rules, warns officials BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Executive can’t be judge and hold an accused guilty, demolish one’s property: Bench THE WORLD ANANTHAKRISHNAN G NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 13 RUSSIA LAUNCHES 1ST MISSILE ATTACK ON KYIV IN MONTHS SRI LANKA: SNAP PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS TODAY PAGE 12 VOTE DAY People wait outside a polling station in Chaibasa in West Singhbhum district to cast their votes during the first phase of Assembly elections in Jharkhand on Wednesday. PTI NEW DEPT OF GOVT EFFICIENCY Trump picks Musk: Five areas where their bond will be tested From China to EVs, tax and job-cuts to Starlink in Ukraine, SpaceX and govt ANIL SASI NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 13 US PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump has picked Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a key backer, to lead a newly created Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) for his incoming administration. Theacronym,incidentally,refers to Musk’s favourite cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Trump also announced that Vivek Ramaswamy, an investor andhisrivalintheRepublicanprimaries,willworkwiththeSpaceX and Tesla founder on the project to “dismantle” bureaucracy and provide “external advice” to the White House on executing “large scale structural reform”. He likened the initiative, an ideamootedbyMuskhimself,to the “Manhattan Project” (the World War II project led by the Musk and Ramaswamy. TRUMPMEETSBIDEN,PAGE12 US to produce the first nuclear weapon) saying “this will send shockwavesthroughthesystem, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” While Musk was the single largest contributor and a fervent Trump proponent, there are five contradictions in this developingsymbioticrelationshipwhich bothsideswillhavetoworkwith — or around. Indeed, one can reinforce the other. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 66% TURNOUT IN JHARKHAND PHASE 1 Jharkhand (TOTAL SEATS: 43) Wayanad LS bypoll 2024 66.46% 2024-LS 74.20% 2019 63.75% 2019 Phase 2 voting on Nov 20 ALOK DESHPANDE PARLI (BEED), NOVEMBER 13 AFTER NCP leader Ajit Pawar, a leader of the BJP has come out againstthesloganof “batengetoh katenge (divided we will be destroyed)” deployed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during the Maharashtra campaign. In an interview to The Indian Express,BJPMLCPankajaMunde said: “Frankly, my politics is different. I won’t support it just because I belong to the same party. Mybelief isthatweshouldwork ondevelopmentalone.Aleader’s jobistomakeeverylivingperson onthislandtheirown.Therefore, weneednotbringanysuchtopic INSIDE COP 29: FINANCE NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN FROM SCRATCH AHMEDABAD COP HELD FOR ROAD RAGE DEATH PAGE 2 ARUN JANARDHANAN CHENNAI, NOVEMBER 13 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PAGE 1 ANCHOR 83.80% Note: EC data as of 11.30 pm 2024 RAJASTHAN BYPOLLS FOR SEVEN SEATS: 69% TURNOUT CONGRESS REBEL CANDIDATE SLAPS SDM PAGE 3 Pankaja is latest: No need to bring slogans like ‘batenge toh katenge’ Oncologist stabbed by patient’s son at Chennai govt hospital, say police ANONCOLOGISTwasinjuredafter he was stabbed multiple times,allegedlybyapatient’srelative, at a government hospital in Guindy, Chennai, on Wednesday. The attack at the Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital (KCSSH) triggered strong reactions and protests from medical professionals over safety and staffing conditions in government hospitals. 64.24% 2024 DECISION THE EXPRESS INTERVIEW PANKAJA MUNDE BJP MLC, MAHARASHTRA to Maharashtra.” At the same time, Munde added: “He said it in a different context and in the political situation of that land (Adityanath first used the slogan in UP). The meaning of that is not what we are usingin Maharashtra. Modiji has given justice to everyone.He did not see caste or religion whenhegaverations,housingor cylinders to people.” Incidentally, Prime Minister NarendraModihashimself been using the slogan “Ek hain toh safe hain (Together, we are safe)” which, rivals have said, is just another way of saying the same thing. Earlier,AjitPawarimpliedthat the politics represented by sloganssuchas“batengetohkatenge” won’t work in Maharashtra. “I have said this many times that it will not work in Maharashtra. It may work in UP, Jharkhand or other places,” Pawar, whose NCP hastraditionallyenjoyedsupport from minorities, said last week. SLAMMING THE use of bulldozers against properties of crime accused, the Supreme Court, while underlining that the executive cannot play judge, ruled Wednesday that demolition of properties of citizens without followingdueprocessiscontrary to the rule of law. Directing that officials indulging in such “high-handed actions” be made accountable, the bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan, using its powers under Article 142 of the Constitution, laid down certain conditions includingmandatory notice which authorities have to comply with before demolishing properties. Making clear that “when a particular structure is chosen all of a sudden for demolition” and similarly situated structures in thevicinityarenottouched,itsaid “mala fide may loom large” and “authorities will have to satisfy the court that it did not intend to penaliseapersonaccusedbydemolishing the structure”. The bench, ruling on a batch of petitions raising the issue of demolition of property by some state authorities as a punishment for the alleged involvement of the property owner in a CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 RELATED REPORTS PAGE 2 Arrested for Prayagraj violence in 2022, Javed Mohammad, now out on bail, at the site of his demolished house. File To those whose homes were razed, Supreme Court order brings hope, but little else ASAD REHMAN, HAMZA KHAN, UPASIKA SINGHAL & ANAND MOHAN J NEW DELHI, JAIPUR, BHOPAL, NOVEMBER 13 THE SUPREME Court may have comedownheavilyonthestate’s demolitionof propertieswithout following due process, but for those who lost their homes to such actions, the battle is only half won. From Uttar Pradesh to Rajasthan, people who have lost properties this way are still awaiting fair compensation. In Prayagraj, activist Javed Mohammad and his family are struggling to move on. On June 10, 2022, Mohammad (58) was arrested for allegedly “masterminding” the violence that erupted in the city during a 15-DAYNOTICE, PENALTYONOFFICIALS GUIDELINES WILL not apply to illegal structures in public places. OWNER/ OCCUPIER must get 15 days to respond to notice. Give owner 15 days to remove illegal portion. COSTS, DAMAGES will be recovered from officials if demolition illegal. protestagainstremarksmadeby then BJP leader Nupur Sharma on the Prophet. Two days later, bulldozers rolled into his CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Reddy: PM out to finish Opp states, Naidu govt goes after diverting investments to Gujarat Opp: 680 notices, 147 cases, 49 arrests over social media posts NIKHILA HENRY NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 13 ACCUSING PRIME Minister Narendra Modi of “trying his level best tofinish all Opposition states”,TelanganaChief Minister A Revanth Reddy has alleged thatinvestmentsforOppositionruledstatesarebeingdivertedto Gujarat through the Prime Minister’s office. “He is the Prime Minister of India, but Modiji is behaving like thePMof Gujarat,”Reddysaidat the Express Adda in New Delhi Tuesday. “From 2004 to 2014, Sonia Gandhi was the chairperson of the UPA, Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi advertised the Gujarat model across the world in those ten years. The then Union government gave so much support to Modiji... every state, whether SREENIVAS JANYALA HYDERABAD, NOVEMBER 13 Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy at the Express Adda in New Delhi on Tuesday. Abhinav Saha itwasruledbytheOpposition or not… was given support for development… be it permissions, budgetarysupport…Thatiswhy there could be a Gujarat model,” he said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin and state Health Minister Ma Subramanian Kalaignar visit the hospital in Chennai. PTI THE TELUGU Desam Party-led NDA government in Andhra Pradesh has launched a crackdown against social media activists and sympathisers of the opposition YSR Congress Party, claiming that they “crossed a line” by posting derogatory contentabout“wivesanddaughters” of TDP leaders. Between November6and12,thestatepoliceissued680notices,registered 147casesandarrested49people, The Indian Express has learnt. Most of them have been booked under BNS sections related to promoting enmity, defamation, public mischief, criminal conspiracy as well as IT Actsectionsrelatedtomorphing images and posting derogatory content. CM N Chandrababu Naidu and Jaganmohan Reddy Sources say the police in various districts mined social media posts by YSRCP activists and sympathisers that allegedly targeted influential women — Home Minister V Anitha, TDP MLA and actor N Balakrishna’s wife Vasundhara, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s wife, Deputy CM and Jana Sena Party chief K Pawan Kalyan daughters, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Now, Nehru Fund plans its own digital archive on first PM DIVYA A NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 13 PARALLEL TO the Jawaharlal Nehru archive at the Prime Ministers’ Museum & Library (PMML, formerly Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, orNMML), theJawaharlalNehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) — a notfor-profitprivatetrusthousedon the same Teen Murti campus — has announced plans to launch its own Nehru digital archive. Thedigitalarchivewillgolive on November 14 next year, and will include all of Nehru’s speeches and conversations cu- rated from archives and resourceswithinIndiaandabroad, said Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, among the trustees of the JNMF which is headed by party leader Sonia Gandhi. Ramesh said the archive would make user material on Nehru, which one can search, cross reference and download, easily available. The idea is to make it the “final authoritative and authenticated resource” on Nehru, said sources. To be modelled on the lines of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory(Johannesburg)andthe Churchill Archive in the UK, the multimediaarchivewillbeavail- able on nehruarchive.in. Those behind the initiative said the freely available data would come in handy to dispel anyfalsenarrativesaboutNehru, evenasRameshmaintainedthat it was not a political exercise but anintellectualandhistoricalone. “We aim to make the archive as comprehensive as possible, open-ended and dynamic, constantly updated with newer archivalsourcesasandwhenthey becomeavailable.Itshouldbethe singlemostimportantsourcefor researchandstudyonJawaharlal Nehru,”saidProfessorMadhavan K Palat, JNMF Secretary. The archive will include pri- The new digital archive will go live on November 14, 2025. File vate collections donated to the PMML by Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. While the PMML has embarked on a digitisation projecttomakethesecollections available online in the next two years, JNMF office-bearers say “thedigitisationof Nehrupapers is not a priority for PMML”. WhiletheNehrupaperswere the first set of private papers obtained by the PMML, Sonia is reported to have taken back 51 boxes of Nehru’s private papers in May 2008. As reported by The IndianExpress,duringtheAnnual General Meeting (AGM) of the PMML,chairedbyDefenceMinisterRajnathSinghinFebruarythis Jaipur year,alargepartofthediscussion centred on this issue. According to NMML records, the papers reclaimed by Sonia include letters exchanged between Nehru and Jayaprakash Narayan, Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Aruna Asaf Ali, Vijaya Laxmi Pandit and Jagjivan Ram. There is no word yet on whether these papers will also be a part of the new archive. Palat said the Nehru Archive will make accessible 100 volumes of The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru (put together by JNMF over the last 50 years), hisletterstochief ministersfrom 1947 to 1964 and his published bookslikeLetters from a Father to His Daughter, Glimpses of World History-An Autobiography, The Unity of India, The Discovery of India, A Bunch of Old Letters and hislesser-knownwritings.Itwill also include Nehru’s speeches from 1917 to 1964, writings on him by his contemporaries and material from global archives. “I am sure that this archive will make Nehru more accessible to successive generations who need to be informed of his contribution towards the making of modern India and the world,” JNMF Vice-Chairman Karan Singh said.