tirupati l THURSday l FEBRUARY 22, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l late city EDITION maN who made India fall in love with the Radio takes final bow 21 DecEMBER 1932 - 20 FebRUARY 2024 Ameen sayani’s Last rites to be held today His last rites will be held today. He is still remembered for his greeting at the start his programme: “Namaste behno aur bhaiyo, main aapka dost Ameen Sayani bol raha hoon.” He anchored the show every Wednesday from 1952 to 1988. In 1999, he moved to AIR’s Vividh Bharati and continued there till 1994. Besides the show, he did voice over and compering on radio Ameen Sayani, the famous host of Binaca Geetmala in Radio Ceylon for 42 years, died of heart attack in Mumbai on Tuesday. He was 91 He had a special bond with listeners ■ ■ Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, his “golden voice on the airwaves had a charm and warmth that endeared him to people across generations... he nurtured a very special bond with his listeners.” Sayani was born on December 21, 1932. He was neither a singer nor an orator but a presenter who rose to dizzy heights of popularity 19,000 jingles for which Ameen Sayani lent his voice during his 42 years in Radio CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI 1 killed, 25 injured in MP Vemireddy quits YSRC, post farmer-police clash, Delhi march put off E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada 12 Haryana police personnel hurt; farmers to decide future course of action on Friday In yet another jolt to the YSRCP, Rajya Sabha member Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy has resigned from the primary membership of the party as well as from the membership of the upper house, citing ‘personal reasons’. The MP was reportedly unhappy with the leadership for the last few days and distanced himself from party activities. He is likely to join the TDP in the next few days. In the run-up to the elections, the YSRCP has taken up the exercise of appointing coordinators to parlia- mentary and Assembly seats. Prabhakar Reddy was reportedly asked to contest Nellore Lok Sabh a s e a t t o wh i c h h e h a d consented. He, however, reportedly asked the party leadership to change the sitting MLAs of Nellore City Kav, ali and Udayagiri. This was because Prabhakar Reddy is reportedly unhappy with the functioning of Nellore City MLA and former minister P Anil Kumar Yadav and urged the leadership to change the candidate for the Assembly election. Though the party has shifted Anil Kumar Yadav out I faced ire for batting for alliance with TDP to avoid vote split: PK Protesters run for cover as a tear gas canister fired by Haryana police explodes near the Shambhu border point between Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday | PTI Cong seeks FIR against Haryana home minister Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said he has written to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to register a case against Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij and the Ambala SP, holding them responsible for the death of the young farmer at the Khanauri border Distressed UP farmer attempts self-immolation A farmer tried to set himself on fire near a dharna site in Muzaffarnagar in UP on Wednesday. The fire was doused in time by others. City Magistrate Vikash Kashyap said the farmer, Brijpal, had a loan-related issue, which would be addressed soon. The farmer is out of danger HARPR E E T BA J WA @ Chandigarh Agitating Punjab farmers on Wednesday put on hold their Dilli Chalo march for two days after a 21-year-old protester was killed and 25 others were injured in clashes with Haryana police personnel at Khanauri on the PunjabHaryana border. Haryana police said 12 of their officials were also injured when the protesters attacked them with sticks and stones. Dr H S Rekhi, the medical superintendent of Rajindra Hospital at Patiala, said three persons were brought to the hospital. One of them was brought dead, with an injury on his head. The post-mortem report is awaited. The other two are stable, Rekhi said. The farmers had resumed their agitation in the morning at Khanauri and Shambhu after a two-day lull, after four rounds of talks with the Centre remained inconclusive. The police fired rubber bullets and dropped tear gas shells on the protesting farmers at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders when they tried to breach the barricades. The protesters were seen holding iron shields, distributing salt, and wearing gas masks to protect themselves from assault. The situation at both the protest sites remained tense after the death of the farmer. Fourteen farmers suffered injuries at the Khanauri border while nine were hurt in clashes at the Shambhu point. All of them had minor injuries. Meanwhile, the Centre offered to hold the fifth round of talks in an attempt to break the deadlock. The farmer leaders are yet to respond. Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, said they will take a call on Friday Bharatiya Kisan Union . leader Rakesh Tikait said the protest will continue. In its reply to the Union home ministry’s letter flagging large gatherings along the Punjab-Haryana border, the Punjab government on Wednesday said at least 160 people from the state have been injured due to firing of tear gas shells and rubber bullets by Haryana police. E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan on Wednesday said that he had to face the ire of the national leaders (read BJP leaders) for batting for an alliance of TDP Jana Sena and BJP to prevent a split , in anti-YSRCP votes. Speaking to his party leaders in Bhimavaram on Wednesday Pawan Kalyan said he felt that the , troika needed to emerge to protect the State from the YSRCP. Pawan Kalyan, whose party was in alliance with the BJP after the 2019 elections, has been pitching for an alliance of the three parties and took up the issue with the BJP national leadership on several occasions. The actor-politician said that he took pains to form the alliance not for his personal benefit but in the larger interests of the State. “There is a need to protect the State from increasing criminality and pull it out from its neck-deep debts,” he said. “I pleaded with folded hands (before the BJP leaders) to join hands,’’ he said. Pawan Kalyan further said he suffered severe mental agony in the process of forging the alliance. “I only know how much I had suffered, sandwiched (between the TDP and the BJP),” he said and added that he had to even face the anger of the national (BJP) leaders. In another controversial remark, Pawan Kalyan said he had never vouched for zero-budget P4 politics. India keen on ior safety: Min Visakhapatnam: Addressing the formal opening ceremony of the 12 edition of MILAN 2024 in the Port City on Wednesday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said India continues its proactive engagement in the Indian Ocean Region to ensure safety and security of all | P3 Fali Nariman End of an era in India’s legal history helped shape modern India, including the Kesavanand Bharati case in which the Supreme Court One of India’s foremost constitutional experts, laid down the basic structure doctrine. Fali S Nariman, passed away in Delhi in the Ethics was at the heart of his most consequenearly hours of Wednesday He was 95. . tial decisions. He resigned as additional solicitor Born in Rangoon, now Yangon, on Janu- general as soon as Emergency was declared in ary 10, 1929, his family fled to India during 1975. As a senior Supreme Court advocate, he the Japanese invasion when dedicated the next few decades in he was 12. Nariman was one strengthening various facets of law, Chiseled mind of the last legal luminaries including establishing judicial reVery few lawyers like who honed their skills in the view of constitutional amendments, Nariman have enriched chambers of Jamshedji Bethe collegium system, and minority the Court with their hramji Kanga in Mumbai, alumrights in educational institutions. He skills and their moral ni that included Soli Sorabjee and admitted later that he wasn’t right in stature, writes senior Nani Palkhivala. appearing for Union Carbide in the advocate Kapil Sibal The departure of the Bhishma Bhopal gas leak case. | Edit page pitamah of jurists signalled the In the assets case against former end of an era. While Prime MinisTamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalater Narendra Modi in his tribute lithaa, he represented her in 2014 and said Nariman was among the most out- got her bail. In the inter-state Cauvery water disstanding legal minds, Chief Justice of pute case, he represented Karnataka. India D Y Chandrachud remembered Nariman was prolific as an author, writing him as a g reat giant of an more than a dozen books and penning numerous intellectual. columns, including for this newspaper. He is surNariman was part of several vived by his son, former SC justice Rohinton Narlandmark verdicts that iman, daughter-in-law and daughter. S u c h i t r a K a lya n M o h a n t y @ New Delhi 10 january 1929 - 21 FebRUARY 2024 and asked him to contest to the Lok Sabha from Narasaraopet, weighing caste equations, the leadership, however, appointed Anil Kumar Yadav’s close aide and deputy mayor of Nellore Md Khaleel Ahmed as the in-charge of Nellore City seat. Sources said the party leadership did not consult Prabhakar Reddy while appointing Khaleel Ahmed as the coordinator. Cut to the quick, the MP had distanced himself from all party activities. He then approached the TDP and expressed his intention to join the party which reportedly assured him that he would be given Nellore MP ticket following P4 which he quit the party . SP, Cong clinch deal for seats in UP, MP Priyanka brokers truce Priyanka brokered the truce between the two allies by first discussing the issue with brother Rahul, followed by a phone call to Akhilesh. She convinced Congress to drop the demand for Moradabad n a m i ta b a j pa i @ Lucknow AFTER seven years, UP Ke Ladke (boys of UP), a 2017 slogan, are together again as the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress clinched their seat-sharing deal in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday for the Lok Sabha elections. Of the total 80 seats in UP , the SP allotted 17 to the Congress. While the SP could accommodate a few other small allies, the Nagina seat may be spared for Bhim Army chief Chandrasekhar Azad. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav at a press conference in Moradabad | PTI The deal went beyond UP as the Congress let Akhilesh’s party contest from Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh. In UP the Congress was al, loted its pocketboroughs of Raebareli and Amethi besides Varanasi. The other seats included Kanpur (Nagar), Fatehpur Sikri, Bansgaon, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Maharajganj, Amroha, Jhansi, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Mathura, Sitapur, Barabanki and Deoria. The Congress first pitched for 25 seats, scaled it down to 21 before settling for 17. Congress leaders said Akhilesh may now join Rahul’s yatra as per his convenience.
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