MARCH 19, 2017 | PAGES 36 | INCLUDING CALCUTTA TIMES & TIMESLIFE! | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | EPAPER.TIMESOFINDIA.COM O F I N D I A KOLKATA PRICE `5 Bharara Sacking ‘Was probing Trump cabinet member’ P 12 Pujara Leads Fightback Hits 130* as India score 360/6, trail by 91 runs P 17 Fiery BMW Crash Racing champion Ashwin, wife die P 7 T hirteen workers con- victed of murder dur- ing the labour unrest at Ma- ruti’s Manesar plant in 2012 were sentenced to life im- prisonment on Saturday. Of the 18 others convicted of rioting, four were jailed for five years. The remaining 14 were given three-year jail terms and released as they had already spent that time in prison. P 7 Maruti unrest: 13 get life term T he two clerics of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah, who went missing in Pakistan on Ma- rch 14, were found in Karac- hi, local media reported. P 7 Missing clerics found in Karachi Games board students play Mnemonics or memory aids that include a liberal dose of weird acronyms and Bollywood songs help kids ace exams P14 Beyond borders In an interview, Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid says he is optimistic that the border control obsession is a temporary phase P16 India in a bottle From the smell of chai to wet earth, perfumers are reinventing desi scents P14 Lucknow/New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah chose saf- fron hardliner Yogi Aditya- nath to be the chief minister of UP in a defiant assertion of the- ir Hindutva nationalist creden- tials midway through the term of the NDA regime. The controversial five-term MP from Gorakhpur is known for his hardline and polarizing rhetoric and belongs to the ex- treme right, or the “fringe” that many warned Modi about and wanted to be shunned. By picking him to govern India’s largest state, Modi and Shah have sent across a clear messa- ge that they will be bound by neither the norms of “politics as usual” nor the requirements of political correctness. Coming after the “surgical strikes” and demonetisation, the appointment of Yogi, an unabashed leader of the Ram Janmabhoomi move- ment, can be termed the third “disruptive move” of the saf- fron regime, and is part of the populist nationalism BJP se- ems to be crafting around the theme of Hindutva. BJP picks Hindutva hardliner Yogi Adityanath as CM of UP MAHANT TO MUKHYAMANTRI WHY ADITYANATH ➤ Hindu consolidation ahead of 2019 polls around populist nationalism. He is a powerful advocate of Hindutva and a fiery orator ➤ Defiance of conventional politics and critics of Hindutva, reflects ‘disruptive’ style of surgical strikes and demonetisation decisions ➤ Reputation for simplicity, tough image could help signal intent to tackle law and order ➤ Though a forward Thakur, his saffron image gives him a following across castes THE RISKS ➤ Dilution of development claims by BJP brass during campaign ➤ His ‘dabang’ image is a polarising signal to Muslims ➤ Untested as an administrator June 5, 1972 | Born Ajay Singh Bisht in Garhwal, is a maths graduate from Garhwal University 1994 | Takes deeksha as disciple of Gorakhnath Math’s Mahant Avaidyanath 1998 | Wins Gorakhpur LS seat for 1st time at 26. Has won seat 5 times on the trot 2002 | Launches Hindu Yuva Vahini, a socio-cultural nationalistic outfit 2007 | Ties with BJP strained over candidate selection. RSS intervenes. Goes to jail for first time for flouting prohibitionary order to lead procession for a Hindu riot victim 2014 | Becomes mahant of Gorakhnath Math YOGISPEAK | Sept 2014 There have been 450 riots cases in west UP... because the population of a particular community is rising... Where there are 20%-35% of them, riots take place and where they are over 35%, there is no place for non-Muslims Yogi, after being named CM Gorakhpur: The chief mini- ster-designate of Uttar Pra- desh was born in the hills to Rajput parents. According to the records of Gorakhnath Math, which he now heads, Yogi Aditya- nath was born Ajay Singh Bisht on June 5, 1972. Little is known of his pre- Yogi days, except that he got a BSc degree in maths and re- nounced his family at the age of 21 to become a disciple of Mahant Avaidyanath, then the head priest of Gorakh- nath Math. In the years that followed, Adityanath trained as a sany- asi, protecting cows, learning about Hinduism and maste- ring Hindu texts, and emer- ging, in less than five years since he was co-opted, as his Guru’s most beloved disciple. As the successor of Guru Go- rakhnath temple, he also took charge of running the scho- ols and colleges under Maha- rana Pratap Siksha Parishad and the management of Guru Gorakhnath Hospital. Maths grad who turned sanyasi Arjumand Bano TNN ‘Aimed at Hindu bloc’, P 9 T he Department of Reve- nue Intelligence (DRI) carried out extensive searches at container depots in Chennai, Tughlakabad, Kanpur, Kolkata and Mum- bai following a tip-off about large consignments of fake Indian currency notes being brought through ports. Import cargo was frozen at three sea ports in Tamil Nadu and at Chennai air- port. Not a single import con- tainer left Kolkata port on Saturday because of the DRI- customs operation. It was virtually taken over by DRI and customs officials and port officials were not being kept in the loop, sources said. A senior customs official in Chennai said they have identified a container at Chennai port, which, accor- ding to an intelligence input, may have Rs 400 crore in fake currency. “We will open it to- morrow,” said the official. Another official in Mumbai said some AK-47 rifles might have reached an inland con- tainer terminal in Tughlak- abad, Delhi. A DRI official re- fused to confirm any seizure. “There was an intelligen- ce alert that fake currency was being brought into the country through the contai- ner route,” said an official in Delhi. Sources said the cargo would be released once the search is over. Sources in Mumbai said DRI and CBI swung into ac- tion following information gathered by the national se- curity adviser’s office that Rs 150 crore in fake currency had been smuggled into the country. Information indica- ted that the fake currency originated in Pakistan and may have landed at Chennai, Mumbai or ICD Tughlaka- bad. An official said imports at these three locations have been stopped, which means no container will leave the port without examination. This is bound to create chaos as currently only random in- spection of containers hap- pens at the ports. Ports, containers searched in 5 cities over FICN alert ➤ Searches conducted after inputs that fake currency had been smuggled into India ➤ Import cargo was frozen at three TN sea ports, airport ➤ Container identified at Chennai port may have FICN ➤ AK-47s likely at container terminal in Delhi’s Tughlakabad NOTES SMUGGLED Other cities alerted, P 6 TIMES NEWS NETWORK Kolkata: There’s a buzz in the world of the visu- ally impaired. Seventy years after Independen- ce, the blind can sense what the country looks like, trace its mighty rivers and mountains and touch its megacities. The National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation (Natmo), a cen- tral government undertaking under the department of science & technolo- gy, has prepared an atlas of India in Braille that will allow the blind to ‘see’ India’s physiography, river systems, so- ils, crop patterns, metro cities, road net- work and political map. “There is a lot of excitement, in our organiza- tion and more so in blind schools, to see the ex- pression of students as they lay their hands on the atlas and sense our country in its physical form,” said Natmo director Tiasha Banerjee. The Braille atlas finally coming to fruition is an emotional moment for Banerjee and her team as the initiative had begun two decades ago. Natmo had first prepared a Braille atlas on a sheet of metal but the experi- ment flopped as visually impaired child- ren called to experience it did not like the feel. It then tried the atlas on a vinyl board. Once again, it was rejected by the blind. Finally, Natmo went back to the tried-and-trusted medium: paper. When a group of boys from the National Insti- tute of Visually Handicapped, Dehra- dun, experienced the maps last month, their fa- ces instantly lit up. 70 yrs after Independence, blind can finally ‘see’ India Subhro.Niyogi@timesgroup.com BRAILLE ATLAS Teachers’ training before launch, P 5 FULL COVERAGE: P 9 & 11 Giant following, P 9 Party Seen To Be Seeking Majority Consolidation Ahead Of LS Polls Rajiv Srivastava & Akhilesh Singh TNN A CBI team began the pre- liminary inquiry into the Narada sting case on Sat- urday and took possession of the unedited Narada tapes from a city bank locker. P 5 CBI begins Narada probe D eputy chief ministers to UP CM-designate Yogi Adityanath, Keshav Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, said sources, would represent a caste balance and bear some of the administrative load of the new government, given Adityanath could need some time to learn the ropes. P 9 2 Dy CMs to balance work, caste equation After Surgical Strikes & Demonetisation, Another Radical Move