DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2024, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 24 PAGES JOURNALISM OF COURAGE `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 TW0-DAY DISCUSSION IN LOK SABHA Congress has always chosen power over Constitution: Rajnath ‘No problem with caste census, let your blueprint specify quotas’ Samvidhan not Sangh ka THE NEW KING vidhan, fear spreading, learn from 1975: Priyanka D Gukesh with his FIDE World Chess Championship trophy in Singapore, Friday. PTI PAGE24 Says one business group favoured, takes name which is later expunged 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 NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 13 Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra opened for the Opp. PTI VIKAS PATHAK 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 withdrawal from the EPFO, 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. Held as ‘spy’ and acquitted, UP man will be judge now NEW DELHI, 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 MANISH SAHU LUCKNOW, DECEMBER 13 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 JOINT POLLS: DRAFT BILL CIRCULATED P 6 EPFO works on plan to introduce ATM High drama starring card facility for withdrawal of funds Allu Arjun: Arrest, then Amid high rate AANCHAL MAGAZINE of rejection bail but night in jail Leaders pay tribute to those who fell defending Parliament during the terror attack on December 13, 2001. Anil Sharma OVER TWO decades after he was arrested on espionage charges, a 46-year-old from Kanpur is within touching distance of judgeship. Last week, the AllahabadHighCourtorderedthe Uttar Pradesh government to issuetheletterappointingPradeep Give Pradeep Kumar his appointment letter by Jan 15, 2025: HC Kumar,aresidentof Kanpurwho was arrested in June 2002, as Additional District Judge. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 which would be subject to a certain ceiling, is likely to be rolled out by the middle of next year, officials said. TheEPFOisworkingtowards improving its IT infrastructure underEPFO3.0,thefirstphaseof which would end in December and is expected to be completed in June 2025. The ATM card feature for withdrawal of funds CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Actor Allu Arjun leaves a Hyderabad hospital after medical check-up following his arrest Friday in a stampede case. PTI SREENIVAS JANYALA HYDERABAD, DECEMBER 13 TELUGU FILM star Allu Arjun was arrested Friday morning from his house in Hyderabad in connection with a stampede at the premiere of his film, Pushpa 2, earlier this month. He was remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a lower court before the Telangana High Court granted him four-day interim bail later in the day. However, he was not released from jail as of late Friday night, with sources saying that he would likely have to spend the night in CONTINUED ON PAGE 2