WEEKEND EDITION Vijayawada, sunday, february 14, 2016

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Jnanpith Award
winner O.N.V. Kurup
passes away

Two soldiers and five

militants killed in an
encounter in Kupwara

Super Sunday: India

U-19 in WC title clash,
seniors play decider

Pope and Russian

patriarch embrace
in Cuba

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UNREST IN THE CAPITAL

Showdown escalates on JNU campus

Students, Centre
not to back down;
boycott of classes
from tomorrow

VIKAS PATHAK
NEW DELHI: The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, president of the
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Students Union, snowballed
into a major political controversy on Saturday, with Congress vice-president Rahul
Gandhi visiting the campus in
solidarity with the students
protesting against the police
crackdown.
People who suppress the
voice of this institution are
anti-national, Mr. Gandhi
said. He said that while people
could disagree with one another, the right to express dissent must be protected.
With students in large
numbers attending the public
meeting against police action

on the campus, the university

seems headed towards a
deeper impasse. Students are
threatening to shut down
classes from Monday if Mr.
Kumar is not released.
Meanwhile, the Aam Admi
Party government ordered a
judicial inquiry into the police intervention at the JNU.
The decision came after a

India calls U.S. envoy,

protests F-16 sale to Pak.
SUHASINI HAIDAR &
VARGHESE K. GEORGE
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: Angered
by a U.S. decision to sell eight
more F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, India summoned U.S.
Ambassador Richard Varma
on Saturday to the External
Affairs Ministry to express
displeasure with the deal.
At the nearly 45-minute
meeting, Foreign Secretary S.
Jaishankar told Mr. Varma
that India was not only disappointed but also upset that its

India believes the F-16 fighters

will boost Pakistans ability to
threaten it. PHOTO: PTI

protests over the past year on

the issue had gone unheeded.
On Thursday, the Pentagon
conveyed to the U.S. Congress
the decision to sell the planes
in a $699.04-million deal, and
the U.S. government announced the sale on Friday.
Early on Saturday morning,
the External Affairs Ministry
said in a statement that India
was disappointed at the decision of the Obama administration to notify the sale of
F-16 aircraft to Pakistan.
Rejecting the State Departments contention that the
sale was in the U.S.s vital national security interests as it
helped Pakistan fight terror

BRIEFLY
RAPE OF SCHOOLGIRL
Arrest warrant issued
against RJD MLA
PATNA: An arrest warrant was

issued on Saturday against

Rashtriya Janata Dal MLA
Rajballabh Yadav accused of
kidnapping and raping a
schoolgirl on February 6. The
MLA from the Nawada
constituency is said to be
absconding.
NATION | PAGE 8

CASH-FOR-VOTE CASE
ACB summons
Jerusalem Mathaiah
HYDERABAD: Jerusalem
Mathaiah, whose name figured
as the fourth accused in the
cash-for-vote case in June last
year, was served notice on
Saturday by ACB officials to
appear before them.

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groups, the Ministry said,

We disagree with their rationale that such arms transfers
help combat terrorism. The
record of the last many years
in this regard speaks for itself. Officials confirmed that
India would take up the issue
with the Obama Administration in Washington.
India believes the sale will
only strengthen Pakistans
ability to threaten India. The
U.S. move is a setback to Indias hopes that given the
mounting evidence of Pakistani agencies continuing support to anti-India groups such
as the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the
U.S. would rethink its arms
sales to that country. In the
past week, many in the government had hoped the details of the deposition in a
Mumbai court by the 26/11
planner David Headley would
remind the U.S. of the links of
Pakistans ISI with these
groups. The U.S. announcement has come at an inconvenient time, when India is hoping to extract action from
Pakistan on the Pathankot terror attacks.
The Congress alleged miserable failure of the government. What is the net result
of the so-called friendship between the Indian Prime Minister and the U.S. President,
which was very much publicised by the BJP and this government, party spokesperson P.C. Chacko asked.

request to this effect by CPI

(M) general secretary Sitaram
Yechury, CPI secretary D. Raja and K.C. Tyagi of the Janata
Dal (United) during their
meeting with Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal earlier in the day. Even as the Opposition sought to corner the
government over the impasse
at the premier institution,

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh reiterated that

while the students would not
be harassed, the guilty would
not be spared.
Union Minister of State for
Home Affairs Kiran Rijiju said
the JNU would not be allowed
to become a hub for anti-national activities. These are
not small kids that they dont

know what they do. In the

name of freedom of expression, you cannot abuse the nation, he told presspersons.
Mr. Yechury and Mr. Raja
met Mr. Singh early on Saturday and demanded the immediate release of Mr. Kumar.
Just after this meeting, City
Police Commissioner B.S.
Bassi met the Home Minister,
who asked him about the progress in the case and sought to
know where the absconding
students were.
Mr. Gandhi was shown
black flags by ABVP members
on the campus. Many political
leaders like Anand Sharma,
Ajay Maken and Ashok Tanwar of the Congress, Mr. Yechury and Mr. Raja attended a
public meeting.
(With inputs from
Jatin Anand & Kritika
Sharma Sebastian)

UNIVERSITY WILL SURVIVE

CRISIS; POLITICAL LEADERS
ATTACK MODI | PAGE 12

Showcasing India

Cong.-DMK alliance sealed

ahead of T.N. Assembly polls
Azad leaves decision
on more partners
to alliance leader
B. KOLAPPAN
CHENNAI: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and
the Congress have decided to
fight the coming Tamil Nadu
Assembly elections together.
On Saturday, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi
Azad, who visited DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi at his
residence here for talks in the
morning, expressed confidence that the alliance would
form a government in the
State. Asked if the Desiya
Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), led by actor
Vijayakant, and others would
join the alliance, Mr Azad
said the DMK, the principal
party in the alliance, would
take a decision.
DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin
said Mr. Karunanidhi had already made an appeal,
through the media, to Mr. Vi-

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad meets DMK president

M. Karunanidhi in Chennai on Saturday. Greeting him are
DMK leaders M.K. Stalin and Kanimozhi. PHOTO: M. VEDHAN

jayakant to join the alliance.

I hope he will give serious
thought to the invitation and
take a good decision, he
said.
Mr. Azad did not attach
any importance to the formation of a coalition government, a major demand of the
Congress in the past. He also
sought to play down a ques-

GUWAHATI: With the Assembly

elections fast approaching,
Assam Chief Minister Tarun
Gogoi says his main fight is
with Prime Minister Narendra Modi rather than Union
Minister for Sports Sarbananda Sonowal, the BJPs

Tarun Gogoi says Union

Ministers have been
disempowered in the
Narendra Modi regime.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Swedish and Finnish counterparts Stefan Lofven
and Juha Sipila and Poland Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Glinski at the launch of the Make
in India Week in Mumbai on Saturday. PHOTO: PTI (REPORT ON PAGE 9)

Rohith suicide: SC panel summons Collector

GUNTUR: Collector and District
Magistrate of Guntur Kantilal
Dande has been summoned
by the National Commission

for Scheduled Castes in the

case relating to the suicide of
Rohit Vemula, a Dalit research scholar of the University of Hyderabad, on January
17.

HARD BARGAIN FOR SEATS

ON THE CARDS | PAGE 5

It will be a fight between

Modi and me, says Gogoi
NISTULA HEBBAR

SAMUEL JONATHAN

tion on allocation of seats to

the Congress, saying it did
not matter if one side got
more and one side less.
It is a small thing whether
the Congress is going to be a
part of the government or
not, he said.

chief ministerial candidate.

Forget Sonowal, my fight
is directly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, since
whether it is Sonowal, or A, B
C or D Minister, all will only
be following the policies laid
down by Mr. Modi, the
Chief Minister, fighting the

anti-incumbency factor after

the Congresss three terms in
power, said in an exclusive
interview to The Hindu.
He said he had demonstrable proof of Union Ministers
being disempowered in the
Modi dispensation. The
Home Minister did not know

when the Naga Accord was

signed and I doubt he has a
hand in gubernatorial appointments. Even the Minister for Development of
North East Region [DONER]
is most helpless, he said.
He himself told me that
he was entitled to Rs. 900
crore for his Ministry, but
when he went to Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley, he was
told: Whether this money
remains in my kitty or your
kitty is the same thing. One
day, at a meeting of the Chief
Ministers of north-eastern
States called by the Home
Minister, in which the DONER Minister was present, I
said: I dont hold any grudge
against you, I know your position, he said.
UNDERSTANDING AMONG
SECULAR PARTIES | PAGE 12

Mr. Dande is leaving for

New Delhi to be present before the Commission on February 15.

DETAILED REPORT ON PAGE 4

IN THE MAKING FOR MANY

MONTHS | PAGE 12

Wanted to use Sena

man for Mumbai
attack, says Headley
SONAM SAIGAL
MUMBAI: Pakistani-American
terrorist David Coleman
Headley has said that he had
planned to use the head of
public relations of Shiv Sena
leader Uddhav Thackeray for
the Mumbai terror attack in
2008 and forwarded an e-mail
from him to the masterminds
of the siege. Deposing before
Judge G.A. Sanap through a
video link from the U.S. on
Saturday, Headley said that
while in Chicago, he exchanged an e-mail with the
PR head and former Shiv Sena
worker, Rajaram Rege, and
forwarded it to Major Iqbal,
Pakistani Army officer, fellow
convict Tahawwur Rana, LeT
commander Sajid Mir and alQaeda operative Major Pasha.
On the fifth day of his testimony, he said he received the
e-mail from Mr. Rege on May
19, 2008.

CULTIVATE REGE | PAGE 13

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