mangaluru l Wednesday l November 27, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 14 l city EDITION Six killed in violence as Imran supporters clash with police Four paramilitary soldiers among the dead. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif alleged the protesters rammed the troops with a convoy of vehicles Protest in response to ‘final call’ by Khan The protesters, who have been marching towards Islamabad since Sunday, are demanding the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) founder is serving a three-year jail term for corruption—a charge he denies. On November 13, he issued a ‘final call” to his supporters, urging them not to relent until govt meets all demands ■ Aug 2023 Pak Army issues shoot-at-sight orders ■ According to reports, the violence erupted at the end of a march led by Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi and PTI leader Ali Amin Gandapur that arrived in Islamabad early on Tuesday. The Pak govt has sought the intervention of the Army, which has issued shoot-at-sight orders Khan’s party rejected Sharif’s claims that troops had been rammed When Imran khan was arrested and jailed on charges of corruption CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Guarantees SC junks plea for ballot voting; Don’t want EVMs: Kharge E X P R E SS N E WS S E RV I C E S U C H I T R A K A LYA N M O H A N T Y an d P r eetha N ai r @ New Delhi Cong to issue show-cause notice to MLA over statement @ Hosapete/Bengaluru Hosapete Congress MLA HR Gaviyappa’s statement on Tuesday that he will soon write to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to stop the guarantee schemes evoked strong criticism from party leaders and ministers with Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC president DK Shivakumar stating that a show cause notice will be issued to him. Speaking at a function in Hosapete, Gaviyappa said because of the five guarantees, funds are not being released for development works in his constituency After his statement went . viral, Congress ministers and leaders took him to task and Gaviyappa, who b a c k tracked, said that the media ‘misinterpreted’ it. Shivakumar told reporters in Bengaluru that the KPCC will seek an explanation from Gaviyappa. He clarified that the  government will not stop the guarantees. Shivakumar warned that Congress MLAs should not question the guarantee schemes. Action will be taken against the party legislators who went public against the guarantees, he said. Addressing the gathering at Hosapete, Gaviyappa said MLAs are not getting adequate funds for development works as the state government spends huge sums of money on the implementation of the guarantees. “I am planning to write to CM Siddaramaiah to stop or at least revise some of the guarantees,” he said. President Droupadi Murmu addresses Parliament to mark Constitition Day at Samvidhan Sadan, in New Delhi on Tuesday | PTI Constitution a progressive, live document, says Murmu Addresses House on 75th anniv of adoption of Constitution E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ New Delhi It is the responsibility of the executive, legislature and judiciary to work together to make the lives of common people better in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution, President Droupadi Murmu said on Tuesday . Addressing a joint sitting of Parliament to mark 75 years of the adoption of the Constitution, Murmu said the fundamental duties of every citizen had been clearly defined in the country’s founding document, which lay stress on protecting the nation’s unity and integrity promot, ing harmony and ensuring the dignity of women. “Constitutional ideals get strength from the active participation of the executive, legislature and the judiciary as well as all citizens,” she said. , Describing the Constitution as a living and progressive document, she said, “In accordance with the spirit of the Constitution, it is the responsibility of the executive, legislature and the judiciary to work together to make the lives of common people better.” The President also recalled the contribution of the 15 women members of the Constituent Assembly in framing the Constitution. The Constitution makers, she added, had given a directive for India to play an important role in the promotion of inter national peace and security . The Constitution, in one sense, was the outcome of nearly three years of deliberations by some of the greatest minds, but, in the true sense, it was the outcome of the long freedom struggle. “The ideals of that incomparable national movement came to be enshrined in the Constitution. Those ideals have been captured succinctly in the Preamble to the Constitution. They are justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. These ideals have defined India since the ages. The ideals highlighted in the Preamble complement each other. Together, they create an environment in which every single citizen finds an opportunity to flourish, contribute to society and help , fellow citizens,” she added. Meanwhile, DMK leader T R Baalu wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla saying some salient features of the Constitution, including the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’, were not at all mentioned in the address of the president, “drafted and approved by the government”. He urged the Speaker to include a discussion on Murmu’s address in the business agenda of the House during the Winter Session. He said it has been contemplated in Parliament’s procedure that the address of the President “must be allowed for discussion to enlighten the nation further”.  P9 Deny voting rights for Muslims: Seer E X P R E SS N E WS S E RV I C E @ Bengaluru Governor C P Radhakrishnan receives Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde’s resignation as CM, as BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis and NCP’s Ajit Pawar look on, in Mumbai | PTI Shinde push for Mahayuti convener, son as Deputy CM if denied CM’s post Su d hi r Su r ya w an s hi @ Mumbai The slugfest over the new Maharashtra government’s leadership continued on Tuesday with caretaker chief minister and Shiv Sena head Eknath Shinde reportedly rejecting offers from the BJP to either take a Cabinet position in the Union gover nment or deputy chief ministership in a Devendra Fadnavis-led government. Highly placed sources said Shinde’s counter was that if he does not get the chief ministerial position, he should be made the convener of Mahayuti government, and his son Dr Shrikant Shinde, Lok Sabha member from Kalyan, the deputy chief minister. The BJP is yet to respond to the counter, said sources adding that has delayed the swearing in ceremony. It could hap- pen on Friday or the first week of December. In the morning, Shinde resigned as chief minister and was requested by the governor to continue in that position as caretaker. A Shiv Sena leader requesting anonymity said if the BJP does not concede the chief ministerial post to Eknath Shinde, it would validate Uddhav Thackeray’s charge of the BJP’s useand-throw politics. That will give Uddhav a fillip after being thoroughly trounced in the recent assembly elections. Shiv Sena MLAs who were camped at a five-star hotel, Taj Lands End, in Mumbai, were asked to go back to their constituencies, meet the people and thank them for the mandate. Shinde also advised party workers not to converge to Mumbai to extend support. Amid the raging Waqf controversy seer of Vish, wa Vokkaliga Mahasamsthana Mutt Kumara Chandrashekaranatha has said that a new law should be enacted to deny voting rights for Muslims. Claiming that such a law exists in Pakistan, where non-Muslims do not have voting rights, the seer demanded that a similar law be enacted here. He also called for abolishing the Waqf Board. He was speaking at a protest meeting organised by the Bharatiya Kisan Sangha against the Waqf Board on Tuesday .  BJP leaders and members of farmers’ organisations have launched a protest across the state after many farmers and landowners received notices stating that their lands have been marked as Waqf properties.  CONTINUED ON P5 Two ‘nurses’ steal newborn from GIMS Ramak r i s hna B a d s e s hi @ Kalaburagi A newborn baby boy was reportedly stolen from the Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital (GIMS) here on Monday . According to sources, Kasturi was admitted to the hospital after she developed labour pain on Sunday It is alleged that two women posing as nurses . entered the ward in the evening and asked Kasturi’s attendants to accompany them along with the baby for a blood test. The baby’s aunt went with the two women, who wore nurses’ attire, carrying the newbor n. Midway, one of them took the baby from her, asking her to bring the medical file. When she returned with the file, the two women had disappeared with the baby A search for the . baby on the premises of the hospital went in vain.  A CCTV camera at the hospital captured the images of the two accused, sources said. Police are on the lookout for the baby and the accused. THE Supreme Court on Monday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by an evangelist seeking the reintroduction of the physical paper ballot voting system in elections in India, saying allegations about electronic voting machine tampering are raised only when people lose polls. The petitioner, founder of the US-based organisations Global Peace Initiative (GPI) and Gospel to the Unreached Millions, argued that political leaders such as Chandrababu Naidu and Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had questioned the authenticity of EVMs. To this, a two-judge bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and P B Varale said: “When Chandrababu Naidu or Mr Reddy lost, they say that EVMs are tampered and when they won, they don’t say anything. How can we see this? We are dismissing this. This is not the place where you argue all of this.” Meanwhile, the Congress on Tuesday demanded that EVMs must be abolished and elections conducted through ballot paper. Speaking at a function to mark the ‘Constitution Day’, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge called for a campaign on the scale of Bharat Jodo Yatra to create awareness about returning to ballot papers. The demand comes amid concerns among opposition parties over alleged manipulation of EVMs in Maharashtra and Haryana elections. Referring to the Maharashtra polls, which the NDA swept, Kharge alleged industrialist Gautam Adani had a role to play “I do not wish to speak about elections, but I . would say the votes of the poor and oppressed are going to waste,” he alleged. express read Sambhal returning to normal after violence Sambhal: Two days after violence broke out during a courtordered survey of a Mughal-era mosque, life in Sambhal was gradually returning to normal on Tuesday with schools reopening and several shops selling daily essentials resuming operations. However, internet services continued to remain suspended in Sambhal tehsil. Meanwhile, Rapid Action Force teams continue to be stationed in sensitive areas. Essar group co-founder Shashi Ruia no more New Delhi: Shashikant Ruia, a first-generation entrepreneur who turned a small construction business into an infrastructure conglomerate, died after prolonged illness. He was 80. Shashi Ruia, as he was fondly called, co-founded the metals-to-tech conglomerate Essar with his brother Ravi | P10