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 ■ ■ BHUBANESWAR l sunday l may 05, 2024 l `12.00 l PAGES 26 l JEYPORE EDITION No bail, Revanna in SIT custody India waiting for Canada u.p. Diaries The City That is No Longer Allahabad Arrested after a court rejects JDS leader’s anticipatory bail plea info on arrests: Jaishankar P r a v e e n k u m a r @ Bengaluru appeal in a constituency that has 4.5 lakh savarna voters — majority Brahmin at that. Santwana That’s why the contest between Bhattacharya two dynasts for the Allahabad Editor seat — Neeraj Tripathi (BJP), son of late Keshari Nath Tripathi, former Governor of West Bengal, PRAYAGRAJ: The city that has and Ujjwal Raman Singh (Conbeen renamed Prayagraj lives in gress), son of Kunwar Reoti Ranostalgia and denial. Denial about man Singh — could well be setits lost significance on the politi- tled by the Modi factor. No irony there. No one raises cal map of Uttar Pradesh and, by that stretch, of India. As if it’s go- the issue of dynastic politics in a ing through a slow unravelling — city whose claim to fame is its asa crisis of identity A century ago, sociation with the Nehru-Gandhi . . it was a melting pot of nationalis- family Their old homes, Swaraj tic ferment, the nursery of future Bhawan and Anand Bhawan, are now given over to a trust. That prime ministers. Indeed, the legacy has no political pull first social-political-cultural left, though. “They’ve no hub of modern UP. The connect with Allahabad slide from that was long or its people any more. but irreversible. But it’s Even when Rahul or Priyevident in the changed anka Gandhi come here, crowd at the coffee house, they drive straight to in the inarticulate anger second of A of the youth. The nature Four-part series Anand Bhawan and simply disappear,” says M P of discourse too reflects Dubey former professor of Politi, grey contemporary realities. , Witness that mutation in the c a l S c i e n c e , A l l a h a b a d . political vocabulary, from over- University A contrasting anecdote is rearching tropes to a more castebased analysis of elections, even counted about Lal Bahadur Shasas metaphor. Not surprising that tri and how he used to reach out to someone in this city — reduced people and even opponents at to basics amidst brash, hyper- streetcorners. The Nehru family’s connect modern shopping arcades — explains complexities thus: “Naren- with the city broke with Indira dra Modi may be from an OBC Gandhi’s passing. Their political community, but comes across as hold was over when Rajiv Gana savarna, whereas Mamata, a dhi’s apolitical friend famously Banerjee Brahmin, does her poli- entered and exited politics . tics like a subaltern.” This is by through this city Continued on: P9 way of explaining why Modi has B i j o y P r a d h a n @ Bhubaneswar Beleaguered JD(S) lawmaker H D Revanna was on Saturday arrested by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in a kidnap case after a court rejected his anticipatory bail petition. The SIT picked up Revanna from his father and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda’s house here. He was whisked away in a SUV and brought to the SIT’s office in Palace Road. The arrest happened after Judge Santhosh Gajanan Bhat refused to grant him interim anticipatory bail after hearing arguments by senior counsel Murthy D Naik representing Revanna and Special Public Prosecutor B N Jagadeesha. Two FIRs have been registered against Revanna. The first is based on a complaint of sexual harassment filed by one of the victims in Hassan district on April 28. The second FIR was filed following a kid- Janata Dal (S) MLA H D Revanna (left) in SIT custody in an abduction case in Bengaluru on Saturday | pti nap complaint lodged on May 2 by another victim’s 20-year-old son in Mysuru district. Revanna has been arrested in the Mysuru case. Revanna’s confidant Satish Babanna is already under custody . SIT officers were trailing Revanna for four days. 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Revanna was charged under Section 364(a) (kidnapping for ransom), 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person) and 34 (the acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. A day after Canada police claimed to have arrested three Indian nationals over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, Exter nal Af fairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said India is waiting for details from Canadian government or the police on the development. In an interaction with the media during his two-day visit to state, Jaishankar said the three arrested persons were apparently Indians having some kind of gang background. But he was yet to get any details. “We have never been given any proof by the Canada government. In fact, we have repeatedly told them if they have something, share with us. I am waiting for the Canada police to tell us more (about the persons they have arrested),” he said and added that they must produce proof if they do not have any political agenda. Jaishankar said, “One of our major concerns is that they (Canada) have allowed organ- Karan Brar, Karanpreet Singh and Kamalpreet Singh arrested in Canada | PTI ised crime from their soil. They have given political legitimacy to Khalistani elements and underground gangsters for vote bank politics.” “We have been telling them if you give political legitimacy to such elements it will be a problem for you and us. But Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is doing vote bank politics to save his government,” the minister said. Jaishankar said India has taken up issues on Khalistanis in Canada in great detail. The Canada government has a lot of knowledge about the Khalistanis living there but has chosen not to do anything. “Even our extradition requests are pending with them for a long time,” he said.
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