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H A R P R E E T B A J W A @ Chandigarh Said to request expediting of govt formation; Uddhav to sack six rebel ministers on Monday S U D H I R S U R YA W A N S H I @ Mumbai JAB-O-METER June 24 13,90,325 doses TAKE June 25 11,19,043 doses YOUR SHOT TOTAL: 1,97,06,96,547 NATIONWIDE JUNE 24 JUNE 25 KARNATAKA JUNE 24 JUNE 25 Fresh cases 17,336 15,940 Fresh cases Recoveries 13,029 12,425 Recoveries Deaths 13 20 Deaths W I T H T H I S I SSU E 816 703 0 253 611 0 ANATOMY OF AN ASSASSINATION PLUS 12 PAGES AMID buzz on rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde flying in to Vadodara on Friday night and meeting BJP leaders Amit Shah and Devendra Fadnavis to discuss government formation, the ruling coalition in the state sought to pressure the dissidents further. According to highly placed sources, Fadnavis was seen at the Mumbai airport taking a Gujarat flight. “Rebel MLAs are getting restless. If there is delay in government formation, things can go awry. Shinde wanted to urge Shah to immediately intervene to resolve the crisis, hence the meeting,” said a source. The leaders, however, were not available for comment. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray called a meeting of the Shiv Sena’s national executive, which authorised him to take decisions to revamp the organisation. On Monday, Uddhav is expected to recommend the sacking of six ministers to Gover nor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari. Both sides continued playing mind games with the rebels calling their group Shiv Sena (Balasaheb) and Shinde as its leader. Parallelly, a technical battle was being fought with Deputy Speaker Narhari Jirwal rejecting a no-confidence motion against him sought by the Shinde camp as it was sent via a random email address and was not submitted in person to the Speaker’s office. In a counter-attack, the legislature’s secretary issued disqualification notices against 16 rebel Sena MLAs, seeking their explanations in writing along with supporting documents by Monday 5.30 pm as to why they failed to attend a party meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday or face disqualification. However, the rebels refused to blink. “Since Shinde has the majority, our side should be heard first. Else, we will approach court and urge the governor to ask the government to prove its majority in the House,” P7 Deepak Kesarkar said. THE AAP government in Punjab on Saturday admitted the state was being pushed deeper into a debt trap in a White Paper it tabled in the Assembly, but sought to blame the previous governments for the economic morass. The economies of quite a few state governments are un- der similar stress, but it is only Punjab that has accepted it upfront. Last week, the RBI had wa r ned that the economies of Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, and Bihar are in deep trouble. But Kerala sought to rebut it. Punjab’s debt has spiraled to `2.63 lakh crore and the state has `24,351.29 crore worth liabilities to service in the imme- diate term, the document said. “The current debt indicators of the state are probably the worst in the country pushing it , deeper into a debt trap,” it claimed. The White Paper was tabled by state finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on the second day of ongoing budget session. It quantified the current debt as a whopping 45.88% of state GDP. Debt swelled to ED arrests Day after SC verdict, Teesta, Mantri director ex-DGP Sreekumar arrested in PMLA case many victims, including petiEXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Mumbai SUBHASH CHANDRA N S @ Bengaluru THE Director of Bengalurubased Mantri Developers Private Ltd, Sushil P Mantri was arrested by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on money laundering charges. In a press statement, ED said Mantri was summoned for questioning under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following which he has been arrested under Section 19 of the PMLA. ED had launched its probe based on an FIR filed against the company, its directors and staffers at the Subramanyapura Police Station in 2020. P5 A day after a Supreme Court bench observed that people with vested interest had sought to keep the 2002 post-Godhra riots pot boiling and suggested action against them, the police arrested activist Teesta Setalvad and ex-Gujarat DGP R B Sreekumar in Mumbai and Ahmedabad respectively on Saturday . The Gujarat Police sent its Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to Mumbai to arrest Setalvad. The court’s ruling was widely read as pointing towards Setalvad’s NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace, which worked with tioner Zakia Jafri, whose family was a victim of the Gulbarg Society massacre. Setlavad was a co-petitioner in the case. Setalvad filed a complaint at Santacruz aga inst ATS for banging her door and assaulting her. Earlier in the day, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch arrested Sreekumar after registering a complaint. The complaint named Sanjeev Bhatt, Sreekumar and Setalvad as accused, adding they misrepresented information and damaged Gujarat’s image. They had created a situation where false ev idence was thrown against SIT, trial court, Gujarat HC and SC. 44.23% in the last five years at a compounded annual growth rate of 7.6%, it added. Pointing fingers at the previous Congress regime, it said they left an immediate and medium-term liability of `24,351.29 crore. Of that, `13,759 crore will go towards non-payment of arrears of the sixth pay commission and `7,117.86 crore for power subsidy arrears. EXPRESS READ Mild tremors of 2.7 magnitude felt in Sullia Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district’s Sullia taluk experienced mild tremors of 2.7 magnitude on Saturday morning. Deputy commissioner Dr Rajendra KV said the tremors lasted a few seconds in areas of Sampaje and Aranthodu. Epicentre was located 4.7 km northwest of Karike gram panchayat. Bad road after PM’s visit, contractor fined `3 lakh Bengaluru: BBMP imposed a penalty of B3 lakh on contractor Ramesh after 9 km of road tarred and repaired at a cost of Rs 11.5 crore for PM Narendra Modi’s visit were damaged within a week. Three Palike engineers were also sent show cause notices in the face of mounting pressure.