DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● REG.NO. MCS/067/2018 - 20 RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2024, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 TW0-DAY DISCUSSION IN LOK SABHA Congress has always chosen power over Constitution: Rajnath THE NEW KING D Gukesh with his FIDE World Chess Championship trophy in Singapore, Friday. PTI PAGE20 ‘No problem with caste census, let your blueprint specify quotas’ EPFO works on plan to introduce ATM card facility for withdrawal of funds 14/12/2024 90 AANCHAL MAGAZINE 118 NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 13 145 86 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY RETIREMENT FUND body Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is working towards rolling out a facility that willallowmemberstowithdraw funds from their corpus through anATMcard.TheATM-cardtype CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Maharashtra govt awards contract for new 60-ft tall statue to Ram Sutar’s firm BMC TO OPEN SECOND ARM OF BOW-STRING BRIDGE BY JAN 26 PAGE 3 MUMBAI, DECEMBER 13 ALMOST FOUR months after a 35-feet tall statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj collapsed at Rajkot fort in Malvan in VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 13 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh initiates the Lok Sabha discussion on the Constitution on Friday. PTI OPENING FOR the Opposition in the Lok Sabha discussion on the Constitution, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Friday sought to turn the tables on the government,sayingithasforgotten that the “Samvidhan” (Constitution) is not “Sangh ka CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra opened for the Opp. PTI VIKAS PATHAK SHIVAJI MAHARAJ STATUE COLLAPSE VALLABH OZARKAR Says one business group favoured, takes name which is later expunged Amid high rate of rejection THE MOVE by the EPFO for an ATM-card type facility comes in the wake of concerns over a high rate of rejection of EPF final settlements in recent months. Samvidhan not Sangh ka vidhan, fear spreading, learn from 1975: Priyanka Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district, triggering a massive political slugfest in the state, the Maharashtra government has awardedthecontractof building a new 60-feet statue of the Maratha warrior king at the fort CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Shinde, Fadnavis meet to resolve differences over portfolios EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 13 MUMBAI, DECEMBER 13 FROMLISTINGtheexcessesofthe Emergency to the toppling of electedgovernmentstooverturning the Shah Bano verdict to undermine the judiciary, BJP senior leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh mounted a scathing attack Friday on the OppositionCongress,sayingithas neverrespectedtheConstitution CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 JOINT POLLS: DRAFT BILL CIRCULATED P 9 Maharashtra Cabinet expansion likely tomorrow in Nagpur Leaders pay tribute to those who fell defending Parliament during the terror attack on December 13, 2001. Anil Sharma Shinde & Fadnavis. File THE CABINET expansion in Maharashtra is likely to take placeinNagpuronSunday,aday before the Winter Session of the state legislature commences. The decision to shift the venue from Mumbai to Nagpur comes in the wake of the inordinate delay in finalising the ministerialcandidatesandallocation of portfolios between the Mahayuti alliance partners, the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP. Holding the Cabinet expansion in Mumbai on Sunday would have caused huge inconvenience to the Mahayuti MLAs, requiring them to reschedule their travel plans. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena president and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde late Friday night met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at his official residence Sagar in Mumbai to discuss and resolvedifferencesregardingthe CONTINUED ON PAGE 2