02092024-TTB-01.qxd 9/1/2024 11:36 PM Page 1 13 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 144 NO. 243 | 16 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 DELHI RUSSIA:WILL CHANGE N-DOCTRINE OVER WEST’S ROLE IN UKRAINE WORLD /thetribunechd FOR 4-POINT AGENDA, LADAKHIS START FOOT MARCH TO DELHI J&K ATF PRICE CUT 4.6%, COMMERCIAL LPG UP ~39/CYLINDER NATION INSTIL NATIONALISM IN YOUTH: VP TO RIMC FRATERNITY BACK PAGE monday | 2 september 2024 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com Farm protest may echo in Assembly CHANDIGARH: The threeday session of the Punjab Assembly is slated to begin on Monday. It is going to be anything but calm with the Opposition set to seek accountability from the AAP government on various issues and farmers set to protest outside the House over their demands. The Opposition parties, mainly Congress, are likely to question the government on the drug menace, state’s depleting fiscal health, deteriorating public infrastructure and the worsening law and order situation. INSIDE 3 rebel JJP MLAs join saffron party HISAR: Three rebel MLAs of the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) joined the BJP in the presence of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and Haryana election coincharge Biplab Deb at a rally organised in Jind on Sunday. The MLAs who joined the BJP are Ram Kumar Gautam from Narnaund, Jogi Ram Sihag from Barwala and former minister and JJP MLA from Uklana (Reserved) Anoop Dhanak. INSIDE Prez: Generation passes awaiting rape case verdicts, end adjournment culture Says pendency a challenge, common man feels justice process lacks sensitivity Satya Prakash Tribune News Service President Droupadi Murmu & CJI DY Chandrachud at the closing of the National Conference of the District Judiciary in New Delhi. PTI New Delhi, September 1 Highlighting the problem of inordinate delay in justice delivery, President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday urged judges to end the “culture of adjournments” to ensure speedy justice, particularly in rape cases. Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day National Conference of District Judiciary here, the President said, “When court decisions in heinous crimes such as rape come after a genera- tion has passed, the common man feels that the judicial process lacks sensitivity.” “It is a sad aspect of our social life that, in some cases, resourceful people continue to roam around fearlessly even after committing crimes while the victims of their crimes live in fear as if those helpless people have committed any crime,” she said. “The condition of women victims is even worse because often people in society don’t support them,” Murmu lamented, as CJI DY Chandra- chud, other Supreme Court judges, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, high court chief justices, over 800 district court judges and lawyers listened to her with rapt attention. The President had recently expressed deep anguish over the brutal rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata and urged society to confront the pervasive violence against women with renewed urgency. “No civilised society can allow daughters and sisters to be subjected to such atrocities,” continued on page 8 Two killed, 9 injured in Manipur militant attack Imphal, September 1 Two persons, including a woman, were killed and nine others hurt when suspected militants launched a gun-andbomb attack in Manipur’s Imphal West district on Sunday, the police said. Militants fired indiscriminately from hilltop positions towards the low-lying valley areas of Koutruk and neighbouring Kadangband killing two persons and injuring nine others. Several houses were also damaged due to heavy shelling by the militants, they added. Of the nine injured, five sustained bullet wounds, while the others suffered splinter injuries from bomb Insurgents hurl bombs at village| Houses damaged explosions, hospital officials said. The sudden assault on the unsuspecting village caused widespread panic, forcing many residents, including women, children and the elderly, to flee to safer areas, the police added. The body of the deceased woman, identified as 31-yearold Ngangbam Surbala Devi, has been taken to the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for postmortem examination. The identity of the other victim is yet to be ascertained, the police said. — PTI JD(U) chief spokesperson Tyagi quits Arjun Chautala to take on granduncle in Rania amid fissures in NDA over key issues INLD out with second Pradeep Sharma Tribune News Service Animesh Singh Tribune News Service New Delhi, September 1 Veteran Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi on Sunday resigned as the party’s chief spokesperson citing “personal reasons”. The party has appointed Rajiv Ranjan Prasad as its new national spokesperson. Though Tyagi downplayed KC Tyagi the development and said he was still with the JD(U) and is its political adviser and that he was not upset or disappointed, the development points towards growing differences between the party leadership and the senior leader. He has been towing a line on sensitive issues like the controversial Waqf Bill, Uniform Civil Code and the Gaza war that has been contrary to the BJP-led NDA government’s stand on these matters. continued on page 8 Chandigarh, September 1 With the INLD fielding Arjun Chautala, son of senior party leader Abhay Chautala and grandson of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, as its candidate from Rania in Sirsa district, the Assembly segment is set to witness an electoral battle between two members of the Devi Lal clan. Today’s issue is of 16 pages, including four-page Delhi Tribune. c m y b Arjun is set to clash with his granduncle and Haryana Energy and Jails Minister Ranjit Singh, who is a brother of Om Prakash Chautala. Ranjit Singh, who joined the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha poll, has already declared that he would contest from Rania “with or without the BJP”. Arjun’s name figured in the second list of seven candidates declared by the INLD today. With this, the INLD- list of 7 candidates Arjun Chautala Ranjit Singh BSP alliance has declared 14 candidates while all other parties, including the Con- gress and the BJP are yet to , declare their candidates. Ranjit Singh, who won the Rania seat as an Independent candidate in the 2019 Assembly elections, resigned following his nomination as the Lok Sabha candidate from Hisar by the saffron party. In the Lok Sabha elections, which he lost to the Congress’ Jai Prakash, he had also locked horns with two Chautala continued on page 8
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