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CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 RAHUL ATTACKS BJP, RSS, SAYS BOTH UNDERMINING CONSTITUTION NATION /thetribunechd RESOLUTION PASSED ON RESTORATION OF SPECIAL STATUS J&K SENSEX, NIFTY RALLY JAISHANKAR, AUSTRALIAN 1%; RUPEE HITS PM DISCUSS WAYS TO ALL-TIME LOW BUSINESS DEEPEN TIES BACK PAGE thursday | 7 november 2024 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com 78-year-old Republican leader elected 47th US Secures more than 270 votes in a closely and Declares mandate unprecedented & powerful, President, makes historic comeback after 4 yrs bitterly fought election against Kamala Harris says ‘survived assassination bids for a reason’ Donald draws a Trump, vows golden age Washington, November 6 Republican leader Donald Trump won the US presidential election for a second term on Wednesday in one of the greatest political comebacks in American history, four years after an election loss in 2020 that sparked a violent insurrection at the US Capitol. The 78-year-old, convicted of felony charges and awaiting sentencing in a hushmoney case in New York, defeated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in a bitterly fought election. At 1 am (IST) on Thursday, 294 electoral votes had gone to Trump and 223 to his opponent Harris. Trump, the oldest person in US history to be elected President, crossed the halfway 270 votes-mark in electoral college votes with victory in the battleground state of Wisconsin. Addressing his supporters at West Palm Beach in Florida, Trump declared his victory in the presidential, calling the mandate “unprecedented and powerful”. “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said, referring to the two assassination SCslaps~25lakh penaltyonUPover illegaldemolition New Delhi, November 6 The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Government over illegal demolition of houses for road widening in Maharajganj district in 2019. It ordered the authorities to pay a compensation of Rs 25 lakh within a month to the man whose house was demolished. INSIDE SC:LMVlicensees candrivesmall transportvehicles NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 6 A person holding a light motor vehicles (LMV) driving licence is entitled to drive a “transport vehicle of light motor vehicle class” having an unladen weight not exceeding 7,500 kg, the SC ruled on Wednesday. “For licensing purposes, LMVs and transport vehicles are not separate classes. An overlap exists between the two,” said the SC. INSIDE VICTORY SPEECH This is a magnificent victory that will also help us to make America great again... we are going to help our country heal. We are going to fix our borders. I want a lot of people to come into our country, but I want them to come in legally. I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars. We had no wars for four years in our last regime.... Except we defeated ISIS. It’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It’s time to unite. And we’re going to try. We’re going to try. And it’s going to happen. attempts on his life during the election campaign this year. Amid cheers of his jubilant supporters and his fami- US President-elect Donald Trump at a victory rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday. REUTERS ly by his side, Trump declared that this will be the “golden age” of America. “This is a magnificent victo- ry for the American people. This was a movement like nobody’s ever seen before... this was, I believe, the great- est political movement of all time,” Trump said. “And now it’s going to reach a new level of importance because we’re ‘To weed out inactive cadre’ , Cong dissolves its HP unit Tribune News Service Shimla, November 6 The All-India Congress Committee (AICC) has dissolved the entire Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC). “The Congress president has approved the proposal to dissolve the entire state unit of the PCC, district presidents and block Congress committees of Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect,” said AICC general secretary KC Venugopal in a press release. Incidentally, HPCC chief Pratibha Singh had sent the proposal to dissolve the entire state unit to the AICC a while back. Over the past year, she has said — on several occasions — that the HPCC needs to be reconstituted and strengthened by replacing inactive members with the more enthusiastic and committed individuals. PRATIBHA LIKELY TO STAY STATE CHIEF ■ HP Congress chief Pratibha Singh is likely to continue as the state president in the new unit as well, central party sources said ■ A top source said the state unit’s dissolution was warranted after several officebearers were absorbed in the government and a rebalance was important She had expressed her displeasure publically on several occasions with the officebearers who were not giving adequate time to the party. Even ahead of the Lok Sabha election earlier this year, she had asked state incharge Rajeev Shukla to remove the inactive members from their posts. According to sources, the recommendation for dissolving the entire Pradesh Congress Committee had gone from both the state party president and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu. “Both the state party president and the Chief Minister felt that the HPCC needed to be reconstituted to prepare it to handle the challenges of the future,” sources said. “Many individuals were not giving enough time to party affairs. Some had become MLAs and a few others were occupied elsewhere. So, there was an urgent need to reconstitute the HPCC,” the sources said. A few months back, the AICC had sent a two-member fact-finding committee to the state to look into the reasons for the party’s defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Sources say that the committee, after talking to several HPCC office-bearers and other leaders, also recommended the dissolution of the HPCC. Now, K’taka rejects Punjab’s substandard rice 2 weeks ago, samples to Arunachal Pradesh found to be of poor quality Ruchika M Khanna Tribune News Service Chandigarh, November 6 In a big blow to Punjab, samples of rice grown and sent from the state to Karnataka have been found to be ‘Beyond Rejection Limit’ and thus unfit for human consumption. This is the second case of rejection of rice grown in the state after it was sent to a recipient state for public distribution. Two weeks ago, samples of rice sent to Arunachal Pradesh were found to be of poor quality and unfit for human consumption. As many as 26 samples of fortified rice were collected by teams sent by Ministry of Over 7,000 bags were sent from Nabha to Hubbali. REPRESENTATIONAL PIC Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution from storage depots and fair price shops in Hubbali (Karnataka). Of these, four samples have been declared ‘Beyond Rejection Limit’. The min- istry had asked for these stacks — from which the (rejected) samples were taken — to be replaced. While 7,304 bags (3,568.837 quintals) were sent from Nabha to Hubbali, 2,995 bags (1,484.929 quintals) were sent from Bhogpur in Jalandhar district. Officials in Food Corporation of India (FCI) at Patiala and Jalandhar divisions have also been informed about it and asked to replace the stacks of rice whose samples were rejected because of high damage to grains. This rejection of rice grown and procured from Punjab has raised the hackles of riceshelling unit owners and farmers in the state, who smell a “conspiracy in the sudden rejection of Punjab rice”. Rajinder Singh Deepsinghwala, vice-president of Kirti Kisan Union, said he feared that the rice samples from continued on page 7 c m y b going to help our country heal... we have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly,” he said. Soon after projections indicated Trump’s victory, congratulatory messages started pouring in from world leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, for his “historic return to the White House”. Later, Harris conceded defeat and called up President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. After President Grover Cleveland (1885-1889 and 1893-1897), Trump is the only person to return to the White House for another term after a gap of four years. Trump served as President from January 2017 to January 2021. “We made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible, and it is now clear that we’ve achieved the continued on page 7 edit: back in the saddle Modi dials Trump, both to work for global peace Tribune News Service New Delhi, November 6 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President-elect Donald Trump had a conversation on phone on Wednesday as the PM congratulated the Republican leader for his spectacular win. Trump told PM Modi that he considered him and India a true friend of the US, and that Modi was one of the first world leaders he spoke to after his victory. Both leaders affirmed to work together for global peace. Official sources citing the conversation said Trump spoke of the “whole world loving PM Modi, and that India was a magnificent country and PM Modi a magnificent man”. Prior to the conversation, PM Modi invoked his past relations with his “dear friend” Trump and posted on X a bunch of pictures along with a congratulatory mes- OPEN TO CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE, SAYS RUSSIA Vladimir ❝ President open to a Putin remains constructive dialogue... the future of relations depends on the American administration. — Kremlin CHINA’S GUARDED VIEW ❝ The presidentialits election of the US is internal affair. We respect the choice of the American people. — Chinese Foreign Ministry sage. The ties between the two date back to 2017 and have since been marked by strong diplomatic and strategic continued on page 7