Assembly election Results Haryana BJP INC Others 90 TOTAL INLD 48 37 2 3 BJP (+8) Congress (+6) KOZHIKODE l wednesday l October 09, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l city EDITION ‘Double-engine’ sarkar National Conference for 3rd consecutive time gets the right to rule H a r p r ee t B a j w a @ Chandigarh HARYANA Two women died and several people suffered injuries after a KSRTC bus fell into the Kaliyampuzha river near Pullurampara in Thiruvambadi, Kozhikode, on Tuesday. The deceased are Thresiamma Mathew, 75, of Anakkampoyil, and Kamala, 61, of Velamkunnel. According to the eyewitnesses, the bus lost control and hit the low railing on the bridge, before swerving and plunging into the river. Thiruvambadi panchayat president Bindhu Johnson said over 25 passengers sustained injuries, with the condition of four critical. It is estimated that around 45 people were inside the bus at the time. The injured, including the driver and conductor, were shifted to nearby hospitals and the Kozhikode Government Medical College. The bus was heading from Anakkampoyil to Thiruvambadi when the accident occurred around 2.15pm. The vehicle turned turtle during the fall. Though local residents rushed to the spot, they faced difficulty in rescuing the trapped passengers as the vehicle’s front portion was ● More on P5 submerged.  Prime Minister Modi praised the leadership of Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who Nayab Singh Saini, Haryana CM is set to retain his chair Swing factor BJP: + 3.45 Cong: + 11.01 jammu & kashmir AAAP BJP CPI(M) Cong Others NC Farooq Abdullah, NC patriarch PDP NC: +2.66% BJP: +2.66% Cong: -6.04% PDP: -13.8% I want to thank the people who gave the verdict in favour of NC-Congress and rejected the August 5, 2019 decision when J&K’s special status was abrogated National Conference 42 29 6 3 1 1 8 (+27) BJP (+4) Congress (-6) There is unexplained slowdown in updating Haryana results... this allows bad faith actors to spin narratives that undermine the process Jairam Ramesh, Cong, in letter to EC There is nothing on record to substantiate your ill-founded allegation of slowdown in updating of results. Your memorandum also does not bring out any contrary facts EC’s sharp response to Jairam Ramesh PDP 90 TOTAL (-25) AAP Omar rises from the ashes, set to be CM NC president Farooq Abdullah announced that his son Omar Abdullah will be the CM, a post the latter held between 2009 and 2014. “The priority of the new government is to fulfil Omar Abdullah, people’s expectations,” Omar National Conference leader told reporters in Budgam (1) CPI(M) (0) OTHERS However, J&K Congress chief Tariq Hamid Karra said the CM’s post needs to be discussed between the partners The results are disappointing. It will not be business as usual in Haryana and I am sure the Congress high command would identify those who negated the efforts to bring the party to power after 10 years Kumari Selja, Sirsa Lok Sabha MP Haryana win a vote for development: Modi RAJ E S H K U M AR T H A K U R @ New Delhi prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that voters in Haryana chose truth, development, and good governance over ne gativity and falsehood. Addressing BJP workers at the party headquarters here, Modi said the people accepted the BJP’s guarantee of development and rejected the Opposition’s pack of lies, giving the saffron party its third consecutive victory in the state. “In the land of Gita, truth and development and good governance have won,” he said. PM Narendra Modi and BJP chief JP Nadda at the party HQ in Delhi on Tuesday | Parveen Negi E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e No surprise expected JAMMU & KASHMIR Narendra Modi, PM @Kozhikode OTHERS Swing factor In the first assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir after Article 370’s abrogation, the National Conference did spectacularly well to bag 42 seats and get the right to form the new government with the Congress, its alliance partner. For all the highpitched campaign by the BJP, its ‘Naya Kashmir’ narrative managed to add just four seats, taking its tally to 29. NC leader Omar Abdullah would be the new chief minister. The Congress performed poorly in the Jammu region, picking up just one of its six seats there — Rajouri (ST). The other five came from the Kashmir valley CPI (M) leader Mohammad You. suf Tarigami, who is an ally of NC-Congress, retained his Kulgam seat for the fifth consecutive time. The tally could go up as at least two NC and Congress rebels each contested and won. They are likely to return to their respective parties. The NC’s strike rate was very high, having contested from just 51 seats. It had a positive swing of 2.66% votes as compared to the last assembly elections in 2014, but in terms of seats it captured 27 more. Besides, the NC and Congress were involved in friendly fights on five seats. Omar’s party also won seven seats in the Jammu region. The election result is a setback for the BJP Its party president . in J&K Ravindra Raina lost to NC’s Surinder Chodhary from his home constituency in Nowshera in Rajouri. Jubilant NC and Congress workers danced and burst crackers to celebrate their win around their party headquarters. “The result has shown that the NC is a force to reckon with and can’t be crushed,” said a party worker Ghulam Ahmed. Omar, who had initially reluctant to enter the assembly poll fray till the restoration of statehood, contested from two seats — Budgam and Ganderbal — and won both. People of Haryana have achieved something remarkable. For the first time, a govt has been given the opportunity for the third consecutive term 2 die, over 25 injured as bus falls into river (+1) F aya z W a n i @ Srinagar Despite facing huge anti-incumbency farmers’ unrest, protest , by wrestlers and widespread discontent over the Agniveer scheme, the BJP managed to retain power for the third consecutive term in Haryana. No party has won a third consecutive term in the state ever since its inception in 1966. This mandate for the ‘double-engine sarkar’ could have a bearing on the forthcoming polls in Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Delhi. While the BJP got 48 seats — 8 more than 2019 — and crossed the halfway mark of 46, it was just 0.85% ahead of the Congress in terms of vote share. The Congress had a whopping 11.01% positive swing, yet it could add just six seats to its 2019 tally of 31. The AAP scored a duck but polled 1.79% votes. In hindsight, had the Congress done a deal with AAP it could have possibly , made a winning combination. Analysts blamed the Congress debacle on its chronic infighting, flawed ticket distribution and party leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s undue emphasis on the Jat vote bank, which comprises almost 27% of the state’s electorate. Sirsa MP and the party’s SC face Kumari Selja’s animosity with Hooda appears to have played a key role in the party’s loss. The Muslim vote bank, however, remained firmly behind the Congress. Its Ferozepur Jhirka candidate, Mamman Khan, won. Two other Muslim-dominated seats of Nuh and Punahana, too went to the party . Talking to this daily, Dr S S Chahar, former Director of the Centre of Haryana Studies in Rohtak said, “the micro management by the ruling BJP was perfect. Also, the RSS played vital role in sorted out intra-party differences in the BJP. The migrant and floating votes went to the party And the BJP vote was . silent this time. Besides, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini was accessible to the public.” The party also managed to get SC votes as also the support of women self-help groups in villages. ■ INLD Cong vote share in Haryana just 0.85% behind BJP, but seat difference 11 NC improves its vote share by 2.66%, adds 27 seats to its 2014 tally BJP 1, Congress 0 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 ■ Govt instructs chief secretary to ignore governor’s summons years”. The briefing was intended to furnish a report to After a lull, the government- the President, Khan said. governor conflict is back in the The governor summoned limelight. A day after Governor Chief Secretary Sarada MuArif Mohammed Khan sum- raleedharan and State Police moned the chief secretary and Chief Shaik Darvesh Saheb the state police chief over the over the CM’s controversial inchief minister’s controterview that appeared versial interview, the in an English daily. In government instructed the interview, Pinarayi its top officials to igis quoted as saying that nore the fiat. money from hawala and Chief Minister Pigold smuggling was narayi Vijayan shot off used for anti-state and a letter to the governor, anti-national activities. bluntly telling him that Arif Mohammed Pinarayi has since disKhan he didn’t have the Conowned the statement, stitutional right to issue and the daily too admitsuch direct orders to ted that it had wrongly the two top civil servquoted him. ants. The Raj Bhavan is The CM is yet to reConstitutionally obliged spond to the governor’s to route any such comletter. “I appreciate that munication through the you acknowledged in CM, Pinarayi said in Pinarayi Vijayan the letter that as per Arthe letter. ticle 167 of the ConstituThe governor was quick to tion of India, the chief minisrespond to the letter, saying he ter is duty bound to provide opted for a briefing from the information required by the chief secretary and the state governor. However, it is surpolice chief as the CM did not prising to note that you chose respond to his letter seeking to avoid my request to have a clarification on Pinarayi’s re- briefing from the chief secremark on the “alleged anti-na- tary that too, in the absence of , tional and anti-state activities a response from you to my let● More on P4 going on in the past three ters,” Khan said.  Commenting on the Jammu and Kashmir election results, Modi said they reflect the vibrancy of India’s Constitution and democracy while crediting his government for the conduct of peaceful elections there. Launching a fresh broadside against the Congress, Modi accused the party of helping evil forces that are trying to destroy India by obstructing the country’s growth. “Many conspiracies are being hatched globally to weaken India’s economy de, mocracy and society Congress , . and its cronies are part of this game,” he alleged. Modi also alleged that the Physics Nobel goes to AI scientists John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton Duo laid foundation for machine learning E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ T’Puram The duo won the coveted prize for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionising the way people work and live “The two Nobel Laureates have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” the Nobel committee said in a press release. Hinton, 76, who is known as the ‘Godfather of artificial intelligence’, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto; Hopfield, 91, is a US professor at Princeton University John Hopfield Congress wants to weaken India by weakening the society and spreading anarchy in the country “That is why they are . provoking different sections, constantly trying to ignite a fire in the names of castes,” he alleged, adding that the paty made many attempts to instigate farmers but people saw through its tricks and propaganda and rejected the party . Modi also claimed that whenever the BJP forms a government in a state, people support it for a long time but the Congress rarely comes back to power as people put a ‘no entry’ board for the grand old party. Built neural networks that mimic brain Inspired by the workings of the human brain, Hinton and Hopfield built artificial neural networks that can store and retrieve memories like brain and also learn from information fed into them Hinton made headlines last year when he quit Google and warned about the dangers of machines outsmarting humans in the long run | P9 SEK 11 million Geoffrey Hinton Physics prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish Kronor ( $1 million) ADGP Vijayan is new intelligence head E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @T’Puram Indicating a realignment of power equations in the top echelons of the police, the state government on Tuesday appointed ADGP P Vijayan as the new head of the intelligence wing. A 1999-batch IPS officer, Vijayan replaces Manoj Abraham, who has been posted as Law and Order ADGP . Vijayan’s appointment to the influential post comes as a surprise. He was suspended by the state government in May last year on the basis of a report filed by then Law and Order ADGP M R Ajith Kumar. In his report, Ajith Kumar alleged that Vijayan, the then chief of the Anti-Terrorist Squad, had leaked the transportation details of the accused in the Elathur train arson case. The accused, Shahrukh Saifi, was apprehended from Rathnagiri in Maharashtra and was brought to Kozhikode by road. The allegation against Vijayan was that he leaked to the media the travel plan of the police team that brought Saifi back to the state. Vijayan was placed on suspension following the report of Ajith Kumar, who had connections within the force and the government. Vijayan had to remain out of action for six months before he was taken back on the basis of the recommendation of the chief secretary. He was soon promoted to the rank of ADGP and appointed director of Kerala Police Academy Ironically, it . was the downfall of Ajith Kumar that paved way for Vijayan’s ascension to the coveted post, which seemed unthinkable a few days ago.  ● More on P4 “It was 13 years ago that the Congress came back to power in Assam and there are some states where the Congress has not returned to power for 60 years,” he said. Focusing a major part of his speech in targeting the Congress, Modi went on to allege that the oppositon party has been working against the interests of SC/STs and backward classes by trying to provoke them with misleading agenda. “Today when the Dalits, backward classes, and tribals are reaching top positions, the Congress is nervous,” he said. 50 senior doctors at RG Kar resign Su l a g n a Sen g u p ta @ Kolkata IN a major escalation of the doctors’ protest in West Bengal, around 50 senior doctors of RG Kar Medical College on Tuesday tendered their resignations in solidarity with the medics who have been on a hunger strike demanding action on the 10-point agenda. Their demands include effective security measures in hospitals and systemic reforms in state-run hospitals. The senior doctors who put in their papers on Tuesday include department heads. They said they took the extreme step as “there has been no response from the appropriate authority to solve and to save our children from impending health disaster”. EXPRESS READ CM skips debate on ADGP-RSS meet T’Puram: A nearly four-hourlong adjournment debate in the assembly on ADGP-RSS meeting, which was conspicuous by CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s absence, ended in a walkout by the Opposition against government’s alleged ‘sidestepping’ of the contentious topic. P4