CM YK ND-ND DELHI, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015 Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad and Malappuram • • Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 5 ● No. 235 ● CITY EDITION ● 24 Pages ● Rs. 8.00 ● www.thehindu.in INSIDE PERSPECTIVE | PAGE 11 PM DAZZLES THE VALLEY In his exclusive article for The Hindu, T.V. Mohandas Pai writes that if Digital India succeeds, there will be a new model to reach the rest of the unconnected world. WORLD | PAGE 14 AFGHAN TROOPS IN KUNDUZ KUNDUZ: Afghan troops retook the strategic city of Kunduz on Thursday amid fierce clashes with Taliban militants, three days after losing the provincial capital. FRIDAY REVIEW — 4 Pages NATION | PAGE 9 MANY HURT IN KOLKATA CLASH KOLKATA: Several Left activists, including CPI(M) leader Dipak Dasgupta, and some policemen were injured in a clash with the police here on Thursday. SPORT | PAGE 18 AUSTRALIA PUTS OFF TOUR MELBOURNE: Australia has put off a two-Test tour of Bangladesh, after warnings militants may attack Western interests, CA chief James Sutherland (in picture) said. BIHAR ELECTIONS Due to infighting, BJP rejigs its campaign strategy for the State NEW DELHI: When BJP presi- dent Amit Shah rushed to Patna on Tuesday morning, he was accompanied by at least eight senior Ministers in the NDA government and a couple of his trusted aides to douse infighting in the State unit. Within two days, Mr. Shah has deployed all that manpower to micro- manage the most important political test facing the BJP since winning the general election in 2014 — the Bihar Assembly polls. According to top sources in the party, Mr. Shah has divided the State into 12 ‘zones’ or ‘divisions’, each having at least three districts covered under it (Bihar has 37 districts in all). A “rajnitik prahari” or political supervi- sor has been appointed to each of these divisions, most- ly Union Ministers like Ravi Shankar Prasad, Giriraj Singh, Radha Mohan Singh, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and J.P. Nadda or a party heavyweight like BJP national general secre- tary Kailash Vijayvargiya. These political supervisors will have one purely organi- sational man under them (usually on loan from the RSS) to take care of nuts and bolts issues. “All these peo- ple, in the areas assigned to them, will get in contact with party workers, local leader- ship, and be available for any airing of grievances,” said a source. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit al- most every district, certainly each of the demarcated zones during his campaign. Prime Minister Modi is likely to visit almost all districts Nistula Hebbar Amit Shah deploys Union Ministers BJP TO RALLY AROUND PM; DISSENT MAY COST BJP BHAGALPUR; NOTICE TO LALU PRASAD | PAGE 12 NEW DELHI: The Modi govern- ment’s declaration window under the new Black Money Act, which ended on Wednes- day, saw all of 638 declara- tions worth Rs.3,770 crore, according to an official relea- se. This amount is Rs 2,800 crore less than what Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared he would recover, during his Red Fort speech on Independence Day, Con- gress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said. Mr. Modi had promised to recover Rs.6,500 crore immediately. “It is the question of what was prom- ised… Mr. Modi promised to bring back Rs. 80 lakh crore, within 100 days, he said. “The biggest promise was Rs. 15 lakh would be deposited in every citizen’s bank ac- count…. Amit Shah now says this was only a jumla (plat- itude)… On Mann Ki Baat, the Prime Minister says he doesn’t know how much black money is out there. It means the person who misled the nation must apologise,” he told The Hindu. Black money totalling Rs. 3,770 cr. declared Mehboob Jeelani & TCA Sharad Raghavan CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 PATNA: Making its maiden pitch for power in Bihar, the BJP on Thursday released its vision document promising five decimal land to the landless for housing, laptops to 50,000 meritorious students and two-wheelers to 5,000 girls passing class X and XII examinations. All homeless people will be given houses equipped with pure drinking water, toilet and electricity by 2022, the BJP’s vision document said. The saffron party, as a senior coalition partner under the NDA banner, has proposed an education loan guarantee scheme under which loan will be made available at the rate of three per cent. Students of weaker sections will get special scholarship for technical and professional education, while a special bureau will be set up to make available information to those students aspiring to go abroad for higher education. In order to improve literacy ratio in Bihar, the BJP has proposed to make one member of each family an e-literate. It will be mandatory to have toilets in a household for a person applying for loan from a government agency. The party has also proposed to come up with a separate agriculture budget. — PTI BJP promises land COLOMBO: The United Nations Human Rights Council in Ge- neva on Thursday adopted a consensus resolution on ac- countability for the alleged hu- man rights violations during the Sri Lankan civil war. Sponsored by the U.S., the U.K. and other countries, in- cluding Sri Lanka, the resolu- tion called upon Colombo to establish a credible judicial process, with the participation of Commonwealth and other foreign judges, defence lawyers and authorised prosecutors and investigators, to go into the alleged rights abuses. The judicial mechanism “should include independent judicial and prosecutorial in- stitutions led by individuals known for their integrity and impartiality,” according to the resolution. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights will continue to assess the progress in the implemen- tation of its recommendations and other processes related to reconciliation, accountability and human rights. The OHCHR will present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at the 32nd session (likely in June 2016). U.N. body asks Sri Lanka to probe ‘rights abuses’ T. Ramakrishnan ‘HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY FOR SRI LANKA’ | PAGE 14 SRINAGAR: Separatist groups on Thursday described Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s U.N. speech “realistic and prac- tical” and welcomed his four- point proposal to normalise re- lations between the two countries. “Sharif has shown po- litical maturity and will to re- solve issues with New Delhi. He also exhibited flexibility toward resolving the Kashmir issue and all other outstanding issues be- tween the two countries in order to bring peace in the region,” said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of a Hurriyat faction. Separatists hail Sharif’s plan Peerzada Ashiq CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 SUSHMA REJECTS PROPOSAL | PAGE 12 MUMBAI: Documents seized from Samir Gaikwad — an ac- cused under arrest in con- nection with the murder of social activist Govind Pan- sare — indicate a link to the murders of rationalist Na- rendra Dabholkar and noted scholar M.M. Kalburgi. Investigating agencies working on these murder cases have found several mo- bile numbers in the diaries seized from Mr. Gaikwad, say sources in investigating teams. Mr. Gaikwad is a full-time member of extreme right wing Hindu organisation, Sa- natan Sanstha, which has its headquarters in Goa’s Ram- nathi village. In the past, a few of its members were found in- volved in three blasts — at Thane and Vashi in Maha- rashtra and Madgaon in Goa. “We have shared all infor- mation. Mr. Gaikwad had noted down many mobile numbers in his diaries, which we traced. Many of the numbers were already on our radar and we are work- ing on it,” an officer told The Hindu. This hints at the possible connection between all three murders, he added. The Dabholkar murder case is being probed by the Central Bureau of Investiga- tion, while the Karnataka police are investigating the murder of Kalburgi. A Special Investigation Team of the Maharashtra police, which arrested Mr. Gaikwad, is assigned to the Pansare case. Investigators have reached Kolhapur where Mr. Gaikwad is lodged. The officer said that sever- al mobile numbers found in the diaries were purchased together and in serial order. “It is likely that the users of these numbers had close groups. The numbers could have been exchanged be- tween group members en- suring different cell tower locations for that particular number. This makes it diffi- cult to pinpoint a particular person.” Search narrowed The investigator said the mobile numbers are crucial clues as much time has passed after the crime. “The evidence has helped us to narrow down the scope of investigation and now we are concentrating on specific persons,” he said. Clues found in diaries seized from one of the accused Alok Deshpande Trail of mobile nos. links killings of 3 rationalists EXCLUSIVE NEW DELHI: The Union Home Ministry has sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh gov- ernment on the lynching of a man at Dadri in Greater Noida over rumours that he had con- sumed beef. The Centre has also sent an advisory to the State to keep a check on incidents of commu- nal violence. Akhlaq, 50, was beaten to death and his 22-year-old son Danish was critically injured by a 200-strong mob which barged into their house at Dadri on Monday night after rumours that the family had consumed beef. Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh police are understood to be investigating the role of ‘2-3 outsiders’ alleged to have incited the mob to lynch Akhlaq, and assault his son as ‘puni- shment for consuming beef’ on Monday. A police source said the investigation hinged on ascertaining the identities of the men alleged to be behind an announcement made over the loudspeaker in the midst of a kirtan from the neighbourhood temple decry- ing the ‘killing of a cow’ and whether the incident was ‘a planned one’ as its execution seemed to suggest. National Bureau Dadri temple priest detained; Centre seeks report from U.P. The family of Akhlaq, who was beaten to death by a mob, at Bisara in Dadri on Thursday. — PHOTO: PTI CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 NEW DELHI: On the suggestion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the police brass of the country will deliberate on in- ternal security and terror in the marshy Rann of Kutch in Gujarat this December. The 50th Directors-General of Police (DGPs) conference, an annual event to deliberate on the issue of internal securi- ty, is likely to be held on De- cember 20 and 21. Though the agenda has not been finalised yet, a senior government offi- cial said the primary focus would be on “radicalisation.” The Prime Minister is the chief guest for this annual event, which will be presided over by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. More than 250 senior Indian Police Service officers will have to perform yoga and participate in a chin- tan shivir (brainstorming) during the two-day confer- ence. They will be put up in designer cottages built in the marsh. A huge conference hall is also being erected. Since the terrain is inhospit- able, three helicopters are be- ing put on standby to ferry the officers from Bhuj — the near- est airport — to the venue. Families of the officers are a strict no this time. After the NDA government came to power, Mr. Modi had said that all major events need- ed to be shifted out of Delhi so that other States get equal op- portunity to host big events. Following this advice, the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which conducts the confer- ence, moved the venue from Delhi to Guwahati last year. This time the venue was cho- sen on the Prime Minister’s suggestion. On Modi’s prompting, DGPs to meet in Gujarat Vijaita Singh The annual event to deliberate on internal security is likely to be held on December 20, 21 EXCLUSIVE NEW YORK: What are India’s In- tended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) on cli- mate change going to look like? This question has been the subject of much speculation in the past weeks. In an exclusive interaction, ahead of the Narendra Modi-Barack Oba- ma meeting in New York, in which climate change dom- inated talks, Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Java- dekar told The Hindu: “India’s INDCs will contain an emis- sions reduction target, as well as a target for reducing energy intensity.” According to the Minister the reductions may not be as far-reaching as those of China. Details are set to be an- nounced on October 2. In July this year, China pro- posed to peak its emissions around 2030 and increase its share of non-fossil fuels in pri- mary energy consumption to around 20 per cent by the same year as part of its INDCs. Further, in a joint statement with U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that his country would launch a na- tionwide cap-and- trade system to re- duce carbon emissions from 2017. Explaining In- dia’s stance vis-à- vis China’s, Mr. Ja- vadekar said India is no match to its populous contender when it comes to economic growth or GDP per capita. Therefore, India has to put ec- onomic growth before com- mitting itself to cut down emissions, a measure that will slow down the economy. Mr. Javadekar was circum- spect when confronted with the possibility of India emulat- ing the Western ‘model’ of de- velopment at home. India will set emissions reduction target: Javadekar Vidya Venkat CONTINUED ON PAGE 12