Assembly election Results Haryana BJP INC Others 90 TOTAL INLD 48 37 2 3 BJP (+8) Congress (+6) NAGAPATTINAM 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 (+1) OTHERS No surprise expected 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 AAAP BJP CPI(M) Cong 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. At 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. 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. HARYANA RAJE S H K UMAR THA K UR @ 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 Three persons, including a 10month-old girl, were killed and 15 others injured on Tuesday after firecrackers, being illegally made for use in temple festivals, exploded inside a house in Pandian Nagar in Tiruppur town. Police have detained the house owner Karthik and his brother-in-law V Saravanakumar, the man behind the unauthorised cracker unit. While two of the deceased were identified — Kumar (39) of Elumathur, in Nambiyur, Erode district and 10-monthold A Alia Shrin from Pandian Nagar — the third, a woman, remains unidentified. Police suspect she might be Kumar’s wife. According to police, the twofloored house where the explosion took place is owned by Karthik from Ponnammal Nagar in Pandian Nagar. Three rooms on the first floor were rented out to knitwear workers from Bihar and Odisha. Karthik lived on the ground floor with his wife Sathyapriya and their two college-going sons. Karthik’s brother-in-law Saravanakumar of Irungalur, in Nambiyur, Erode district, owns a firecracker manufacturing unit nearby sources said.  P5 , BJP: + 3.45 Cong: + 11.01 NC 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 Farooq Abdullah, NC patriarch PDP 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 fulfill 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 Narendra Modi, PM P S RINI V A S AN @ Tiruppur Others JAMMU & KASHMIR People of Haryana have achieved something remarkable. For the first time, a govt has been given the opportunity for the third consecutive term Cracker blast: 10-month-old among 3 killed Swing factor jammu & kashmir Swing factor H a r p r e e t B a j w a @ Chandigarh ■ 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 ■ 50 senior doctors at RG Kar resign, join protests S u l a g n a S e n 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, better working conditions, 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”. The doctors also claimed that medics from other prominent medical institutions in Kolkata such as SSKM and NRS may follow suit, further intensifying the pressure on the state government to act. The junior doctors’ protest has gained significant momentum with senior doctors joining the movement. However, the protracted protests have badly hit healthcare services in the state. The mass resignations of senior doctors and the growing number of participants in the hunger strike have left the state’s health services in a precarious position. On its part, the state government has promised to roll out safety and security measures by the first week of November. The doctors say their protests will continue till that is done. express read Six found guilty in 2011 attempt-to-murder case Tirunelveli: Six persons, including a notorious rowdy, were convicted on Tuesday in the infamous 2011 attempt-to-murder case of an SC woman panchayat president. The quantum of punishment for them will be delivered on Thursday | P4 Guj police arrest senior journalist in ‘GST scam’ Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested senior journalist Mahesh Langa in an alleged GST scam. Following detailed questioning, Langa was arrested, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ajit Rajian 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 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) Thalavai Sundaram relieved of AIADMK posts for ‘acting against party principles’ E X PRE S S NEW S S ER V ICE @ Chennai/Kanniyakumari AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday temporarily relieved party MLA and senior functionary Thalavai N Sundaram from all party posts, for acting against the ideology and principles of the AIADMK besides violating the party’s bylaws. Sundaram has been suspended as AIADMK’s organising secretary as well as the Kanniya- kumari East district secretary . His suspension comes two days after he flagged off a R a s h t r i ya S w aya m s e v a k Sangh (RSS) rally in Kanniyakumari. Since the AIADMK snapped ties with the BJP in September 2023, Palaniswami has time and again asserted that the party would not have any truck with the BJP in the future, including for the 2026 Assembly elections. At this juncture, Sundaram flagging off the RSS rally may have been seen as embarrassing to the party. However, Palaniswami’s statement does not mention any particular reason for the suspension except that Sundaram acted against party principles. Since an inquiry has to be made, he has been relieved from all party posts temporarily, it added. This action has come amid concerns about the AIADMK becoming weak, especially in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu.  P5 “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. 14 new projects worth `39K cr get Cabinet nod E X PRE S S NEW S S ER V ICE @ Chennai The Tamil Nadu Cabinet on Tuesday approved 14 new projects with an investment commitment of `38,698 crore, enabling the creation of 46,931 jobs. Most of them are high-end jobs, said Industries Minister T R B Rajaa. These projects will be spread across 12 districts and span diverse sectors including auto and electric vehicles, electronics, green energy, telecom equipment and advanced manufacturing. The investments are in line with the state government’s vision of equitable growth. The state Cabinet has cleared Freetrend Industrial India’s proposal to set up a manufacturing plant in Ariyalur worth `1,000 crore, which will make the district a hub for the global footwear industry and generate 14,000 jobs. Other significant investments include `10,375 crore by Leap Green Energy, a renewables platform based in Tamil Nadu, focused on providing clean energy solutions to commercial and industrial customers, which will generate 3,000 jobs. The investment will be realised in Thoothukudi.  P5