The editorial Page: Public servants must act in favour of the weak, and in fear of their conscience 8 MoNday, SePTeMber 28, 2026 Journalism of Courage AhMedABAd, lATe ciTy, 18 pAGeS ₹5.00 l www.indianexpress.com dA i ly f r o M : A h M e dA B A d , c h A n d i GA r h , d e l h i , J A i p u r , ko l k ATA , l u c k n o w , M u M B A i , n AG p u r , pAT n A , p u n e , vA d o dA r A delhiminister slapsyouth duringroad inspection,aaP seeksaction A video grab of the incident in West Delhi’s Vikaspuri, Sunday Brendan dabhi alok singh & devansh Mittal More than a week after the Gujarat Police booked 21 protesting farmers here after effigies of Prime Minister narendraModiandhomeMinister amit Shah were burnt by them on the PM’s birthday on September17,nonoticeshavegone out or any further action taken. But, anger over the issue behind the protests simmers. on Friday, more than 9,000 farmers held a dharna at the Morbi Collectorate, joined by their counterparts from other districts. deLhI PWd Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh found himself at the centre of a row on Sunday as a video clip circulated on social media showed him slapping a youth during inspection ofroadrepairworkinVikaspuri area of West delhi. Sharing the video clip on X, aaP MLa from tilak nagar, Jarnail Singh, said in his post: “he had come to inspect the road, but upon seeing scam after scam being exposed, he lost his cool and ended up indulging in thuggery (goondagardi) with my colleague who was recording the video." Parvesh Sahib Singh, too, shared a video on X later in which he alleged that aaP workers had abused his family. “Listen to the full truth behind today’s incident... but what happened should not have happened,” he said in his post. the incident happened on Sunday afternoon. the video »cOntInUed On PaGe 2 Trade in focus, India, Canada push to up ties ‘Why is govt with companies, not us?’: At Morbi protest, where farmers booked over burning of PM effigy Protests over power transmission towers & compensation formula spread across Morbi New Delhi, September 27 ahead Of PM’s lIkely vIsIt In dec Ground report Morbi, September 26 the latest round of protests has been sparked by notices served to all landowners who either have transmission towers or line corridors of a 765 kV halvad transmission Line and an 800 kV transmission Line passing through orovertheirfields.thenotices, served on September 23, asked themtoappearwithintwodays before a Market rate Committee(MrC)attheCollectorate,to nominate the valuer for their land, or the government would do it for them. For the farmer leaders, this fit a pattern they have been »cOntInUed On PaGe 4 To take ties to higher level, says Jaishankar; building renewed partnerships with large economies like India, China: Canada minister During protests by students of the Lovely Professional University in Phagwara, Punjab, Sunday. pTi Violence over sexual assault claim in LPU, university denies incident anju agnihotri chaba Jalandhar, September 27 StudentS oF Lovely Professional university (LPu) in Punjab’s Phagwara staged a violent protest early on Sunday, damaging property, vandalising shops, setting vehicles on fire business as usual by eP UNNy InSIdE PAge 11 ClAsh At KolKAtA filM institute and blocking a national highway, alleging that a girl student had been sexually assaulted by an “outsider” on campus. the university denied the allegation, describing it as “baseless and fabricated rumours”. Following the violence, LPu suspended classes for 10 days with effect from September 28. Inacommunicationtostudents, »cOntInUed On PaGe 2 SIGnaLLInG Further moves to improve ties between new delhi and ottawa, Canada’s Foreign Minister anita anand underlined attempts to build “renewed partnerships” withlargeeconomieslikeIndia and China, while external affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the two sides are preparing to take their relationship “to a higher level”. »cOntInUed On PaGe 2 Citizenship not eCI’s job: ex-SC judge express news service New Delhi, September 27 Protesters at Jetpar village in Morbi. BhupendrA rAnA divya a New Delhi, September 27 ForMer SuPreMe Court judge Sudhanshu dhulia has said that the apex court has laid down the law in several judgments on citizenshipand it “is not the PAge 14 election Commission of India’s job”. Justice dhulia, who retired from the Supreme Court in au- renukA puri Justice (retd) Sudhanshu Dhulia was at the Idea Exchange Friday gust 2025, also described as “a serious matter” the two election Commissioners objecting Ahmedabad onrecord14timesin10months tostepstakenbytheChiefelectionCommissioner,asreported by The Indian Express. responding to a question at the Idea exchange Friday on his remark during an SIr hearing in July 2025 that “citizenship is an issue to be determined not by the election Commission of India, but by the Ministry of home affairs”, Justice dhulia said: “this is the »cOntInUed On PaGe 2 EAM S Jaishankar with his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand in New York. Ani polItIcS PAge 10 AshoK singhAl: A life dediCAted to nAtion-building by PM NareNdra ModI Happening today lIndIa’s crIcket campaign in the Japan Asian Games starts, while Avinash Sable and Sreeshankar Murali will carry medal hopes in Athletics.