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Former BJP MP Savitri Soldiers from Assam village fight a battle on the home front too
Bai Phule joins Congress
NEW DELHI
Lok Sabha member Savitri Bai These men in uniform from Saru Harid in Barpeta district have struggled for years to overcome doubts about their citizenship
Phule, who had recently
resigned from the BJP, joined
the Congress party on RAHUL KARMAKAR threat at home — a system ship. The irony does not es­ Mr. Rahman, who joined of Pakistanis — has sufficient
Saturday in the presence of GUWAHATI that continues to doubt their cape farmer Ratul Ali, whose the BSF more than a decade ground for doubting his or
party president Rahul Gandhi The Army, the Central Re­ citizenship. brothers are among at least ago, is posted along the Line her citizenship. Members of
and general secretary for serve Police Force and the Barpeta district’s Saru Ha­ seven serving soldiers or pa­ of Control in Kashmir, on the the unit have powers to
Uttar Pradesh (East) Priyanka Border Security Force have rid, 145 km west of Guwaha­ ramilitary personnel who border with Pakistan. check documents and if not
Gandhi Vadra. never had a problem count­ ti, is often referred to as a vil­ have been labelled foreign­ Mr. Ali’s elder brother, Ru­ available, can demand pro­
NEWS A PAGE 12 ing these soldiers as their lage of ‘faujis’ (soldiers). ers since 2003. bul Ali, is with the CRPF, and duction of proof of citizen­
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD own and deploying them to At least half a dozen youth engaged in checking Maoist ship within 15 days.
protect the country’s bor­ from the village of some SUNDAY SPECIAL activities in Jharkhand. For 43­year­old Shahidul
ders from the frozen reaches 6,000 people, most of Much of his leave, however, Islam, a subedar in the Army
of the Siachen glacier to mil­ whom are Muslims, join the is spent dealing with the Bor­ who served in north Kash­
itancy­hit Kashmir or to security forces every year. “As we speak, my uncle’s der Police’s reference case, mir’s Baramulla and at Sia­
combat home­grown insur­ But that has not stopped the son Mafuzur Rahman could said his sibling. chen Glacier, nothing is
gents. local administration, partic­ be battling foreign mercen­ A reference case is made more painful than carrying
But these battle­hardened ularly the State’s Border Pol­ aries on the frontier,” said against a person if an investi­ the ‘foreigner’ tag while de­
Strategy session: An awareness meeting being held at Saru men from a western Assam ice, from suspecting them to Mr. Ali. “But he is deemed a gation officer of the Border fending the country.
Harid by an association fighting to remove the foreigner tag village have struggled for be foreigners and asking foreigner at home along with Police — set up in 1962, in­
MAGAZINE A 40 PAGES (TABLOID) from serving and retired soldiers. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT years to overcome a bigger them to prove their citizen­ all members of his family.” itially to prevent infiltration CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12
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Abhinandan was not released AAP announces 6 candidates for Delhi LS seats

But leaders say ing­together of the anti­BJP
parties, had thought there
under any pressure: Pakistan tie-up with Cong. should be an alliance bet­
is still possible
ween the AAP and the Con­
gress to prevent division of
Damini Nath votes. But Congress presi­
We did not want to increase India’s grief, says Foreign Minister Qureshi Jatin Anand dent Rahul Gandhi had said
NEW DELHI last month that the party
Mehmal Sarfraz India rebuffs The Aam Aadmi Party on Sa­ An array: AAP Delhi convener Gopal Rai, centre, with the would not align with the
LAHORE turday announced candi­ candidates in New Delhi on Saturday. * R.V. MOORTHY AAP, Mr. Rai said. “We
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Russian offer dates for six of the seven Lok thought they would rethink.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi has Sabha constituencies in Del­ struck “at any time to defeat out to the Congress had not But, yesterday [on Friday],
said the decision to release of mediation hi, a day after Delhi Congress the BJP.” yielded any result. But the after Ms. Dikshit said they
IAF pilot Wing Commander president Sheila Dikshit Leaders of the Delhi Pra­ leader added that the AAP did not want an alliance, we
Abhinandan Varthaman was ruled out an alliance. desh Congress Committee, “may consider” an alliance if decided there was very little
not taken under any external Suhasini Haidar However, senior leaders however, said they had reit­ the Congress approached it. time left for the election. So
pressure or compulsion. NEW DELHI in both parties said the op­ erated their unwillingness At a press conference, we are announcing our can­
“We wanted to send a Rejecting any offer of tion of a tie­up was still on for an alliance with the AAP. AAP Delhi convener Gopal didates.”
the table. A Congress leader
mediation by Russia or
message to India. We don’t CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12 Download Indian Library App A senior AAP leader said Rai said the leadership of the
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want to increase your grief, other countries, India’s said an alliance could be the party’s attempts to reach ‘mahagathbandan,’ the com­ LEADERS REWARDED A PAGE 12
we don’t want to mistreat Ambassador to Moscow said
your citizens, we just want All is well: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with Wing tensions between India and
peace,” he told BBC Urdu in Commander Abhinandan in New Delhi on Saturday. * ANI Pakistan appeared to be
an interview. de­escalating. “The
The pilot was captured by Both India and Pakistan have are willing to cooperate; we situation is already
Pakistani troops after his jet issues, “but how do we re­ said let’s sit and talk. That’s stabilising and stabilising
crashed on the other side of solve these issues? By firing the only sensible way for­ rather quickly,” Venkatesh
the border on Wednesday. missiles at each other? No!” ward. Two neighbours, two Verma, one of India’s most
In a separate interview he said. atomic powers, can they af­ senior diplomats, now
with BBC, the Foreign Minis­ Mr. Qureshi said Pakistan ford going to war? Suicidal!” based in Moscow, said in an
ter said both countries were never wanted a crisis and interview to agency RIA­
still in a very serious situa­ was ready to cooperate with Novosti on Saturday.
tion. “We still are... it isn’t India. “We said share evi­ ABHINANDAN DOING WELL,
over!... We are on high alert.” dence with us; we said we SAY OFFICIALS A PAGE 13 CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12

Prisoner’s Rajasthan’s Gujjar quota faces a legal challenge

body handed
Special Correspondent and education in Rajasthan, Court here, challenges the
over to Pak. JAIPUR citing them as being an “ex­ quota Bill on grounds of an
The Congress government’s tremely backward class”, “untenable basis” of propor­
move to give 5% reservation has run into rough weather. tionality of population.
Special Correspondent to Gujjars and four other no­ A public interest litigation
madic communities in jobs petition filed in the High DETAILS ON A PAGE 9
Jaipur
The body of Shakir Ullah,
the Pakistani prisoner who
was allegedly killed by fel­
low inmates in Jaipur Cen­
tral Jail last month, was
handed over by the Border
Security Force to Pakistani
authorities at the Attari­
Wagah border on Saturday.
The 50­year­old, hailing
from Sialkot in Pakistan,
was serving life term here
after being convicted un­
der the Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act in 2017.
He was brought here in
2011 from a Punjab jail,
where he was incarcerated
as a member of terror out­
fit Lashkar­e­Taiba.
The Rajasthan govern­
ment had on February 21
removed the jail superin­
tendent and a deputy jailor
from duty and placed two
other prison officials under
suspension following his
murder in a prison cell a
day earlier.
A case of murder was al­
so registered against four
jail inmates.
“Pakistan reiterates its
demand that the culprits
must be taken to task, find­
ings of the inquiry and
post­mortem report may
be shared urgently and to
ensure safety of all Pakista­
nis, especially Pakistani
prisoners in Indian jails, to
prevent recurrence of such
tragic and reprehensible
incidents,” a Pakistan Fo­
reign Office spokesman
said in a statement.
(With PTI inputs from
Islamabad)
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