NEW DELHI 19 MAY 2024 SUNDAY `12 PAGES 26 facebook/TheMorningStandard X.com/TheMornStandard GREEN EVOLUTION TICKLING HER BRAIN STEM https://epaper.morningstandard.in HUSH’S THE WORD PLUS: 12 PAGES MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE VOICES Pushpesh Pant Ravi Shankar Sumeet Bhasin Neha Sinha CORRUPT TANGO IN DELHI: MODI PM WON’T JOIN DEBATE: RAHUL Narendra Modi addressing his first rally in New Delhi on Saturday | PTI Rahul Gandhi gestures while addressing a rally in New Delhi | PTI Mocks depletion of the Congress in the capital Seamless alliance with AAP, says Cong leader R A J E S H K U M A R T H A K U R @ New Delhi A S H I S H S R I V A S TA V A @ New Delhi PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday tore into the Congress-AAP alliance in Delhi, saying the world is watching how one corrupt party is covering for another corrupt party The apparent reference was to the slew of . corruption charges hobbling the AAP government led by Arvind Kejriwal in the national capital. In his first rally in Delhi for the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, Modi alleged that the Congress would go to any extent to pursue vote bank politics. He pointed out that during the 2014 elecI live for tions, the Congress government had democracy and handed over 123 properties spread democracy runs in my veins. It is across prime locations in Delhi to the Modi’s guarantee Waqf Board for votes. to work 24/7 for Describing the Opposition’s INDIA bloc as opportunistic, he recalled how 2047. Keep this in mind while going they had held Delhi hostage for months to vote on May 25 by blocking roads and triggering riots Narendra Modi after Parliament passed the the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Mocking the depletion and degeneration of the Congress, Modi said the party that once ruled the country is no longer in a position contest even in four seats in Delhi. “Almost four generations of the Congress ruled Delhi, but today they don’t have the strength to contest on four seats of Delhi. The Congress is not even able to fight from where they have their courts at 10 Janpath!” Reaching out to the slum-dwellers, who constitute a major vote bank, he said, “We are working to regularise unauthorised colonies and them pucca houses.” CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit the campaign trail in the national capital, saying he would press the button for the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal would vote for the Congress in the forthcoming elections. All seven seats of Delhi will go to polls on May 25. In a show of solidarity within the INDIA bloc, Rahul, in his maiden poll rally in Chandni Chowk, sought to remind voters that the AAP is contesting four seats and Congress three as part of the seatModi is giving non- sharing deal. “As Kanhaiya said earlier, ‘Rahul ji will vote for AAP and Kestop interviews jriwal ji will vote for Congress’,” he to his favourite journalists but he said while welcoming party candidate will not have a Kanhaiya Kumar on the stage. debate with me “We have to come together because because he knows BJP leaders have openly said that they he cannot answer will tear the Constitution,” Rahul almy questions leged, urging people to vote for the canRahul Gandhi didates of the INDIA bloc. Rahul’s vote is in the New Delhi constituency where AAP’s Somnath Bharti is contesting while Kejriwal’s vote is in Chandni Chowk where Congress candidate J P Agarwal is in the fray . Criticising PM Modi, Rahul said the former would not hold a debate with him, though he is available for it “anytime, anywhere”. He claimed that the PM would not be able to answer his line of questioning. “The first question would be on his relationship with Adani; the second on electoral bonds; the third on farm laws. I don’t think he can answer them.” MORE REPORTS ON PG 6, 7 & 10 Kejriwal aide arrested in Maliwal case U J W A L J A L A L I @ New Delhi ARVIND Kejriwal’s close aide Bibhav Kumar was on Saturday arrested from the chief minister’s residence in connection with the assault on Swati Maliwal. Kumar is accused of molestation and assault of the AAP Rajya Sabha MP at the CM’s residence on May 13. A medical report from AIIMS said Maliwal has suffered bruises on her left thigh and right cheek. An FIR was registered at the Civil Lines police station. Police reached Kejriwal’s residence in the morning after they got know to that Kumar was p re s e n t t h e re. H e was taken to the Civil Lines police station where he was arrested. Reacting to his aide’s arrest, Kerjiwal, in a televised address, accused the BJP of targeting AAP by arresting its leaders. “Today they have arrested my , PA. Now they are saying they will arrest Raghav Chadha, who has just returned from London. In some time, they are saying, they will arrest Saurabh Bharadwaj and Atishi,” Kejriwal said. He announced he would visit the BJP headquarters on Sunday along with all his MLAs and MPs. “You can put in jail whoever you want…,” he said. P3 In Praise of Beauty Anuja Chandramouli Shiv Visvanathan Shankkar Aiyar D M Diwakar Serving the Self BURNING BRIGHT AMMA SPEAKS The Power of Selfless Giving Breaking Good Would Hajipur shower its blessing on Modi’s ‘Hanuman’? to create history by registering his victory by a record margin. He has his faFOR Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) ther’s legacy on the one hand and Prime chief Chirag Paswan, merely winning Minister Narendra Modi’s blessings on the Hajipur (SC) Lok Sabha seat his the other. Modi’s ‘Hanuman’ will be put legendary father Ram Vilas to test in the true sense,” said Paswan held for decades, Deoki Nandan Singh, 65, a reswould be a disgrace. He wants ident of Bidupur in Vaishali to register victory with an district. RJD leader Tejashwi eye-popping margin so as to Yadav had lampooned Chirag establish himself as the poas Modi’s Hanuman recently . litical heir of the Ram Vilas legacy . At a recent rally, Modi had lavished Chirag’s party is an ally of BJP-led praise on Chirag, saying he considers NDA. He is locked in a straight fight him his son. “Chirag is a true reprewith former state minister and RJD sentative of Bihar, the future of Bihar. chief Lalu Prasad’s trusted lieutenant He is also a successful MP. If you vote Shiv Chandra Ram. Unlike in 2019 for Chirag, it will directly go to Modi’s when he lost to Chirag’s uncle Pa- account,” the PM said. shupati Kumar Paras from this seat, Making a similar pitch, Tejashwi Ram, 53, is posing a stiff had told his party at a recent challenge to campaign address, “If you Shiv Chandra Ram (left) Chirag, want to see me as chief minisand Chirag Paswan 41, this time ter, then ensure victory of around. Shiv Chandra Ram from Chirag’s deciHajipur.” It was a clear sion to shift from Jamessage to RJD rank mui — which elected and file to rally him twice to the Lok around Ram. Sabha — to Hajipur If social activput him on a collision ist Navneet Kucourse with Paras. mar’s opinion is Whether or not the anything to go sulking Paras would by, people in gendamage Chirag’s eral are discussprospects remains ing local issues but to be seen. it is the caste factor “This time that will overshadow Chirag is set everything. 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