MANGALURU SUNDAY MAY 05, 2024 `12.00 PAGES 26 CITY EDITION AIR INDIA CUTS CABIN BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE FOR DOMESTIC FLIGHTS For the lowest economy fare ticket, only 15 kg of free baggage will be allowed henceforth by the airline, down from the earlier 20 kg upper limit NO CHANGE FOR BUSINESS CLASS FLIERS The airline offers three price slabs in the economy class — Comfort, Comfort Plus and Flex. For Comfort and Comfort Plus, the free baggage allowance has been cut to 15 kg from 20 kg and 25 kg. But Flex passengers can have 25 kg baggage. Business class fliers can continue to carry 25-35 kg baggage depending on the route. New baggage rules kicked in on Thursday May 16th FLEX FARE COMES WITH A LOT OF BENEFITS ■ Last year, the company introduced a menu-based pricing model. The price difference between Comfort Plus and Flex fares would typically be around `1,000 in a domestic sector like Delhi-Mumbai, the airline said ■ Explaining the new rules, the spokesperson said the Flex fares would provide 10 kg extra baggage, zero fees for cancellation and more loyalty points AIR INDIA TO RESUME FLIGHTS BETWEEN DELHI-TEL AVIV WITH FIVE WEEKLY FLIGHTS 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 No bail, Revanna in SIT custody U.P. DIARIES THE CITY THAT IS NO LONGER ALLAHABAD He was picked up from his father and former PM Deve Gowda’s house in Bengaluru ru after his anticipatory bail was rejected by the People’s RepreTHE Special Investigation sentative Court. Team (SIT) on Saturday evening Minutes after the bail applicaarrested Holenarasipur MLA tion was rejected, a team of SIT HD Revanna in the kidnap case officials headed by SP CA Simon registered against him at KR went to Deve Gowda’s house. Nagar police station in Mysuru The SIT was trailing Revandistrict by the son of one of the na after he left Holenarasipura victims of the alleged four days ago saying sexual abuse involvthat he would not run ing the MLA and his away, but fight the son and Hassan MP case legally . I will not interfere in Prajwal Revanna. The SIT ke pt a the arrest of MLA Two FIRs were reghawk’s eye on him to istered against Revan- Revanna in the kidnap ensure he did not escase, as action has to na. The first on a be taken against the cape. The officials complaint of sexual were waiting for the accused as per law harassment filed by court’s order. After Siddaramaiah, one of the victims in the court denied him Chief Minister Holenarasipur town anticipatory bail, police station in Hasthe SIT officers, who san district on April 28. The were there, immediately insecond based on a kidnap for med their colleagues — complaint filed by another who were already positioned victim’s 20-year-old son on near Deve Gowda’s house — May 2 in KR Nagar police sta- to move ahead and arrest tion, for which Revanna was Revanna. The SIT had credible arrested. information that Revanna was Revanna was picked up by the in his father’s house. A team of SIT from his father and former five SIT officials, in two vehicles, PM HD Deve Gowda’s house at rushed to Deve Gowda’s house. CONTINUED ON:P4 Padmanabhanagar in BengaluP R A V E E N K U M A R @ Bengaluru has appeal in a constituency that has 4.5 lakh savarna voters — majority Brahmin SANTWANA BHATTACHARYA at that. That’s why the contest beEDITOR tween two dynasts for the Allahabad seat — Neeraj Tripathi (BJP), son of late PRAYAGRAJ: The city that Keshari Nath Tripathi, has been renamed Prayagraj former Governor of West lives in nostalgia and denial. Bengal, and Ujjwal Raman Denial about its lost signifi- Singh (Congress), son of cance on the political map of Kunwar Reoti Raman Singh Uttar Pradesh and, by that — could well be settled by stretch, of India. As if it’s go- the Modi factor. ing through a slow unravelNo irony there. No one ling — a crisis of identity A raises the issue of dynastic . century ago, it was a melting politics in a city whose claim pot of nationalistic ferment, to fame is its association the nursery of future prime with the Nehru-Gandhi famministers. Indeed, the first ily Their old homes, Swaraj . social-political-cultural Bhawan and Anand Bhahub of modern UP The . wan, are now given slide from that was over to a trust. That long but irreversible. legacy has no politiBut it’s evident in cal pull left, though. the changed crowd “They’ve no connect at the coffee house, with Allahabad or its in the inarticulate people any more. SECOND OF A anger of the youth. FOUR-PART SERIES Even when Rahul or The nature of disPriyanka Gandhi course too reflects grey con- come here, they drive , temporary realities. straight to Anand Bhawan Witness that mutation in and simply disappear,” says the political vocabulary, M P Dubey former professor , from overarching tropes to of Political Science, Allaa more caste-based analysis habad University . of elections, even as metaA contrasting anecdote is phor. Not surprising that recounted about Lal Bahadur someone in this city — re- Shastri and how he used to duced to basics amidst reach out to people and even brash, hypermodern shop- opponents at streetcorners. ping arcades — explains The Nehru family’s concomplexities thus: “Naren- nect with the city broke with dra Modi may be from an Indira Gandhi’s passing. OBC community, but comes Their political hold was over across as a savarna, where- when Rajiv Gandhi’s apolitias Mamata, a Banerjee cal friend famously entered Brahmin, does her politics and exited politics through like a subaltern.” This is by this city . CONTINUED ON: P9 way of explaining why Modi FAF-TASTIC RCB skipper Faf du Plessis drives on way to his 23-ball 64 in the IPL match against Gujarat Titans in Bengaluru on Saturday. RCB struggled to go past a meagre target of 148, losing six wickets and winning by 4 wickets | VINOD KUMAR T SIT approaches CBI for blue corner notice Bengaluru: The SIT, which is probing the alleged rape and sexual harassment cases against Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, has approached the CBI to issue a blue corner notice against the MP. He is said to have gone to Germany on April 27 | P4 MLA HD Revanna being taken by SIT personnel from the residence of his father and former PM HD Deve Gowda in Bengaluru on Saturday | EXPRESS Woman rescued from farmhouse of MLA’s PA E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @Mysuru THE Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Saturday rescued the woman, who was allegedly kidnapped by senior JDS leader and Holenarsipur MLA HD Revanna’s aide on April 29 and held captive in a farmhouse at Kalenahalli village in Hunsur taluk. Based on the information given by Revanna’s relative India waiting for Canada info on arrests in Nijjar case: EAM B I J O Y P R A D H A N @ Bhubaneswar A day after Canada police claimed to have arrested three Indian nationals over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, External Affairs 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 organised crime from IN the narrow lanes and bylanes of Secunderabad, there are striking black-and-gold engravings that read: “Foundation stone laid by T Padma Rao Goud; Guest of Honour: G Kishan Reddy”. While the latter is the sitting BJP MP from Secunderabad, the former is a BRS MLA from the Assembly segment bearing the same name. In the Lok Sabha elections in Secunderabad, Goud, Reddy and BRS MLA Danam Nagender are locked in a tricornered contest. Nagender, who won on a BRS ticket from Khairatabad Assembly segment in the December 2023 Assembly polls, jumped ship — but hasn’t yet resigned as a legislator — and is now contesting on a Congress ticket. All the three candidates have years of political experience. Kishan Reddy is the state BJP president and a Union minister; Padma Rao is a four-time MLA and former state minister; and Nagender is a sixtime MLA. Internal surveys of the parties currently place Kishan slightly ahead of Nagender, with the BRS candidate a close third. In the Secunderabad and Musheerabad assembly segments, there is support for the BRS with some voters even calling it a fight between the BJP and the pink party . “Danam has been switching parties every now and then. He was in Congress, then TDP, then Cong ress again, then ILLUSTRATION: MANDAR PARDIKAR From left, T Padma Rao Goud, Danam Nagender and G Kishan Reddy tion to trace the woman after her son Raju filed a complaint at KR Nagar police station on May 2 against Revanna and his son Prajwal Revanna. In his complaint, Raju stated that his mother, who worked in Revanna’s house for six years, returned home three years ago. She is one of the victims of sexual abuse by Prajwal. Babu kidnapped his mother on April 29 on the advice of Revanna, Raju alleged. EXPRESS READ One IAF personnel killed in terror attack Jammu: An IAF personnel was killed and four others were injured in a terror attack in Jammu’s Poonch district on Saturday evening. Terrorists opened fire at two vehicles carrying IAF personnel near Shahsitar around 6pm. The area, where the attack took place, is between Surankote’s Sanai Top and Mendhar’s Gursai in the border district. The injured personnel were shifted to Udhampur for treatment on IAF choppers, where one of them succumbed. An IAF detachment is collocated with the 37 Rashtriya Rifles in the Mendhar region. TRUTH BE RETOLD WITH THIS ISSUE PLUS 12 PAGES From left: Karan Brar, Karanpreet Singh and Kamalpreet Singh arrested in Canada | PTI 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. Union min, 2 MLAs from same party in rare contest S W E T H A V I M A L A M @ Hyderabad Satish Babu, who is now in judicial custody, sleuths of SIT raided the farmhouse of MLA’s personal assistant Rajashekar in the village and rescued the woman. It is said that Rajashekar managed to escape from the farmhouse just before the team landed there. After the raid, the sleuths brought the woman to Bengaluru in the afternoon. The sleuths launched an opera- BRS, now back in Congress,” said Satyanarayana, a 70-year-old resident of Khairatabad. For his part, Nagender told this newspaper, “My career started in the Congress. People recognise my service and will give a befitting reply to the BJP Despite his party.” hopping, Nagender, appears to enjoy the support of the minorities. For instance, a Muslim voter in Nampally said his vote would go to Nagender. “I’ll vote either for patang (kite) or Congress. The constituency is home to over 20 lakh voters, 27.4% of whom are Muslims. Another voter, Rajesh (40), a juice vendor in Musheerabad, said, “There is anti-incumbency against the BJP and Danam might benefit from it.” Former captain of the Indian cricket team Mohammed Azharuddin, who has been campaigning along with Nagender, said that he was confident the Congress will wrest Secunderabad. Azhar, who was the party candidate from the Jubilee H i l l s A s s e m b l y segment in the 2023 elections, told this newspaper, “Kishan Reddy has not done anything. I don’t think he spent his MP funds properly .” Speaking to this newspaper during the Hyderabad Dialogues recently, Kishan said, “The Modi government has done a lot for the state. The Centre spent about `10 lakh crore in Telangana.” However, there are also voters who said Kishan is not accessible whereas the BRS candidate is a grassroots leader. “Padma Rao walks around our road, waves at me and asks how I’m doing; but we cannot expect that from Kishan Reddy,” a voter in Secunderabad said. At KBR National Park in Jubilee Hills, a brisk morning walker said, “In this part of the city we mostly , know Kishan Reddy and Danam’s work. In the other part, they would probably support Padma Rao. Whoever comes to power, just make sure you take care of the traffic, roads and other civic issues,” he sighed. 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