NATIONWIDE oct 6 oct 7 Fresh cases 18,833 22,431 Recoveries Deaths 24,770 24,602 318 278 Jab-o-meter October 6 Take 40,43,600 doses your October 7 shot 45,54,939 doses Total doses: 93,11,96,195 odisha oct 6 oct 7 Fresh cases bhubaneswar l friday l october 08, 2021 l `7.00 l PAGES 12 l late city EDITION dissenters out of the BJP’s national executive team The 80-member body has Union ministers and influential newcomers like Mithun Chakraborty and Dinesh Trivedi swamy, maneka gandhi, varun dropped heady mix of veterans, newcomers Maneka Gandhi and son Varun were dropped hours after the latter’s tweet on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. Subramanian Swamy, vocal critic of the leadership, too, was removed. Choudhary Birendra Singh, who recently shared the dais with Om Prakash Chautala, was axed. Prahlad Singh Patel lost his slot perhaps after his name cropped up in the Pegasus list | P7 ■ ■ ■ Smriti Irani made a comeback. Heavyweights like Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari retained their positions S P S Baghel and Dara Singh Chouhan, both imports from the BSP with strong following in the backward castes, were inducted Veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi have been retained 593 582 Recoveries Deaths 429 04 522 07 Nov 7 When the national executive meets for the first time in two years CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ WARANGAL ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI UP summons out for minister’s son State scrambles to take action as SC seeks report N a m i ta B a j pa i @ Lucknow With the Supreme Court breathing down its neck demanding a status report on probe into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence within 24 hours, the UP Police tried to get its act together, arresting two aides of the main accused Ashish Mishra and detaining three others here on Thursday . As for Ashish, son of Union minister Anil Mishra, he has been summoned to appear at the Lakhimpur police lines for interrogation at 10 am on Friday “We have sum. moned him. We will record his statement,” said Laxmi Singh, Inspector General of Police, Lucknow zone. The summons notice was pasted at the Lakhimpur residence of Ajay Mishra. Earlier in the day the , Supreme Court had asked the state government to submit a full report by Friday after taking suo motu cognisance of the matter. T he two ar- Probe trajectory Additional Director General of Police S N Sabat said events unfolded only after the “accident”. Anyone behind the wheel has complete control over the vehicle and is 100% responsible for it, he said, adding others in the vehicle could have a reason to ‘instigate or abet’ whatever happened rested persons were identified as Luvkush and Ashish Pandey. Their arrest happened full four days after the violence that led to the killing of eight persons, including four farmers and a journalist, indicated the police were dragging their feet till now. “The accused named in the FIR have been called for questioning. If they don’t turn up, we will go to court and follow due legal process,” the IG told this newspaper, adding teams have been set up for their arrest and questioning. Significantly, the IG confirmed the recovery of empty bullet shells from the violence site. The FIR lodged on the basis of the farmers’ complaint alleged that Ashish opened fire after getting down from a car that mowed down the protestors. “In the light of this, the incident site was meticulously probed by a metal detector today,” a police statement later said. The IG also said the arrested persons have given a lot of information. “During interrogation, they confirmed the presence of three others who were killed in the violence.” The IG was, however, cagey on whether they confirmed Ashish’s presence in one of the cars that rammed into the protestors from behind. Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Singh Tikait has demanded Ashish’s arrest by October 12. Meanwhile, the UP government named retired Allahabad High Court judge Pradeep Kumar Srivastava as the head of the single-member judicial commission that w i l l i nve s t i g at e t h e violence. Pradhan, Oram Vaishnaw figure in BJP NEC express news services Terrorists gun down principal, teacher in Srinagar school @ Bhubaneswar F aya z W a n i @ Srinagar Three leaders from Odisha figure in the reconstituted National Executive Committee of BJP announced by party president JP Nadda on Thursday Union Minis. ters Dharmendra Pradhan, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Sundargarh MP Jual Oram are among the 80-member committee, the highest decision making body of the party Ba. santa Panda has been included in the comDharmendra Pradhan mittee as a special invitee. State president Samir Mohanty lead, er of BJP legislature party Pradipta Naik, State general secretary (organisation) Jual Oram Manas Mohanty Odi, sha in-charge D Purendeshwari and co-in charge Vijaypal Singh Tomar are perm a n e n t i nv i t e e s (ex-officio). Ashwini Vaishnaw Senior leader Baijayant Panda has been retained as the national vice-president. He has been given the charge of Delhi unit of the party Aparajita Sarangi . and Sambit Patra from Odisha are among the 26 national spokespersons. Terrorists barged into a government school on Thursday and shot dead its principal and a teacher at point-blank range, in a shocking escalation of civilian targets here in the last few days. As many as seven civilians have been killed in the Valley in just five days. Thursday’s attack happened when the teachers were taking online classes. No student was in school at the time of the incident. The deceased were identified as principal Supinder Kour from Aloochibagh in uptown Srinagar, and Deepak Chand from Jammu. Police said the terrorists entered the Government Boys Higher Secondary School at Sangam around 11.15 am and opened fire. While Deepak died on the spot, Supinder succumbed on the way to a hospital. Two days ago, a prominent Kashmiri Pandit chemist, Makhan Lal Bindroo, and two others were killed in similar attacks. Claiming responsibility for Thursday’s attack, terrorist outfit The Resistance Front claimed it was a retributive strike against those who had allegedly harassed parents into making their wards at- Distraught family members of Deepak Chand, a teacher from Jammu, killed during a terrorist attack at a government school in Srinagar on Thursday | PTI Kill me also, says kour’s mother A pall of gloom descended on the house of Supinder Kour, whose relatives are yet to come to terms with her death. “Kill me also,” wailed her mother even as relatives made futile attempts to console her. “What had she done? She was a teacher. She has small kids. Aag lage is Kashmir ko (let this Kashmir burn),” she said tend the August 15 Independence Day functions. Soon after the attack, security forces launched a search for the assailants, but no arrest was reported till the time of going to press. Meanwhile, terrorists lobbed a grenade at a CRPF bunker in Safakadal in Srinagar on Thursday night, but there was no loss of life. Officials said the grenade hit the netting of the bunker and exploded on the roadside. Will give befitting reply: L-G Lt Governor Manoj Sinha condemned the killings and said a befitting reply would be given to the perpetrators. “The terrorists and their patrons will not succeed in disturbing peace, progress and prosperity of J&K,” Sinha tweeted. Leaders cutting across party lines as also social and religious groups condemned the attack