eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE The original showman AHMEDABAD,LATECITY DECEMBER15,2024 What made Raj Kapoor an awaara and why he felt making a popular film was the hardest thing to do FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT 14+4 PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA FAKE ED RAIDS CASE ‘Mastermind’ was an AAP worker, funded party with illegal activities: Police EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE AHMEDABAD, DECEMBER 14 ABDUL SATTAR Manjothi, who is accused of being the mastermind in the fake Enforcement Department (ED) raids case in Kutch, is a worker of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Superintendent of Police for Kutch (East) Sagar Bagmar said on Saturday. Bagmar further added that Manjothi funded the party with illegal activities, and that AAP workers may be called for questioning in the case. His remarks come a day after a war of words broke out between the Minister of State (MoS), Home, Harsh Sanghavi, and AAP leaders over his comments on Manjothi. In a post onX (formerly Twitter) on Friday, Sanghavi claimed that Manjothi was “the captain of the fake ED team and the official General Secretary of AAP.” However, Gujarat AAP chief IsudanGadhviandGeneral CONTINUEDONPAGE2 REPLY TO DISCUSSION IN LOK SABHA PM:NehrutoRahul,Conginflicted repeatedblowsonConstitution Counters Cong pitch on caste census, quota; reiterates commitment to UCC Rahul invokes Eklavya: ‘Govt cutting thumbs of youth, small businesses’ ASAD REHMAN NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in Lok Sabha. PTI MANOJ C G NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 ACCUSING THE Congress of inflicting repeated blows on the Constitution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said theNehru-Gandhifamily—from India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi to Leader of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PAGE 9 PARTICIPATING IN the special debateontheConstitutioninthe Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi reiterated the Congress’s promise to hold a caste census and work towards removing the 50% cap on reservation, but added another layer to his social justice pitch. In his speech on the second day of the debate, Gandhi questioned the BJP over Hindutva ideologueVDSavarkar’ssupport for the Manusmriti “over the Constitution”, and invoked Eklavya, the noted archer from the Mahabharata, to make his case for deprived youngsters kept out of the system. “In front of us stand people who follow a very different WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM JUSTICE SHEKHAR KUMAR YADAV AT VHP EVENT ON HC PREMISES Under fire for ‘hate speech,’ HC judge is called by SC Collegium for meeting SHYAMLAL YADAV Justice Yadav framed UCC as a Hindu vs Muslim debate NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 THE FOCUS of an impeachment bid in the Rajya Sabha where the Opposition has accused him of “hate speech” and “incitement to communal disharmony,” Allahabad High Court judge JusticeShekharKumarYadavhas been called by the Supreme Court Collegium for a meeting nextweek,TheIndianExpresshas learnt.The meeting may be held as early as December 17. The Collegium is headed by CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 YOGI BACKS JUDGE PAGE 7 House versus in-house THE SC step comes even as 55 Rajya Sabha MPs moved a notice on December 13 for a motion to impeach Justice Yadav. Given the NDA numbers in both the Houses, that looks like a non-starter. So how SC deals with this is significant. The other India link: Gukesh, rival used chess set made in Amritsar NAMIT KUMAR LoP Rahul Gandhi holds copies of the Constitution and the Manusmriti in LS. PTI philosophical tradition. And I wanttostartmyspeechbyquoting what the supreme leader — not of the BJP, but of the modern interpretation of the ideas of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AMRITSAR, DECEMBER 14 PATIENTLY PERCHED over a drilling machine, Baljit Singh picks tiny, polished wooden chunks and begins, with utmost nonchalance, to carve them into the trickiest chess piece there is to craft: the knight. This no-frills facility in a bustling Amritsar lane is far CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Baljit Singh carves a knight in Amritsar. Namit Kumar Ahmedabad