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 ■ ■ HYDERABAD SUNDAY MAY 05, 2024 `9.00 PAGES 26 LATE CITY EDITION Air india cuts cabin baggage allowance for domestic flights Revanna in SIT custody @ Bengaluru 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 Janata Dal (S) MLA HD Revanna (left) in SIT custody in Bengaluru on Saturday | PTI 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 follow- U.P. DIARIES THE CITY THAT IS NO LONGER ALLAHABAD PRAYAGRAJ: The city that has been renamed Prayagraj lives in nostalgia and denial. Denial about its lost significance on the political map of Uttar Pradesh and, by that stretch, of India. As if it’s going through a slow unravelling — a crisis of identity A century ago, it was . a melting pot of nationalistic ferment, the nursery of future prime ministers. Indeed, the first social-political-cultural hub of modern UP. The slide from that was long but irreversible. But it’s evident in the changed crowd at the coffee house, in the inarticulate anger of the youth. The nature of discourse too reflects g re y, c o n t e m p o r a r y realities. Witness that mutation in the political vocabulary, from overarching tropes to a more castebased analysis of elections, even as metaphor. Not sur prising that someone in this city — reduced to basics amidst brash, hyper moder n shopping arcades — explains complexities whose claim to fame is its association with the SANTWANA Nehru-Gandhi family. BHATTACHARYA Their old homes, Swaraj Bhawan and Anand BhaEDITOR wan, are now given over to a trust. That legacy thus: “Narendra Modi has no political pull left, may be from an OBC though. “They’ve no concommunity, but comes nect with Allahabad or across as a savar na, its people any more. whereas Mamata, a Ban- Even when Rahul or Prierjee Brahmin, does her yanka Gandhi come politics like a subal- here, they drive straight tern.” This is by way of to Anand Bhawan and explaining why Modi simply disappear,” says has appeal in a constitu- M P Dubey, former proency that has 4.5 lakh fessor of Political Scisavarna voters — maence, Allahabad jority Brahmin at University . that. A contrasting That’s why the anecdote is recontest between counted about Lal two dynasts for Bahadur Shastri the Allahabad and how he used SECOND OF A seat — Neeraj to reach out to Tripathi (BJP), FOUR-PART SERIES people and even son of late Kesopponents at hari Nath Tripathi, streetcorners. for mer Gover nor of The Nehru family’s West Bengal, and Ujjwal connect with the city Raman Singh (Con- broke with Indira Gangress), son of Kunwar dhi’s passing. Their poReoti Raman Singh — litical hold was over could well be settled by when Rajiv Gandhi’s the Modi factor. apolitical friend famousNo irony there. No one ly entered and exited raises the issue of dy- politics through this city . CONTINUED ON P9 nastic politics in a city MERCURY RISING 46.80C 44.50C in Jagtial & Karimnagar districts on Saturday Women protect themselves from scorching heat with umbrellas in Hyderabad as a new season’s high was recorded again on Saturday | VINAY MADAPU is max temp in Hyderabad Red alert was in place in 26 districts in TG where the temperatures remained above 450C IMD predicts light to moderate rains or thundershowers at isolated places in the state for next 6 days till May 10 ing a kidnap complaint lodged on May 2 by another victim’s 20-year-old son in Mysuru district. Revanna has been arrested in the Mysuru case. Reva n n a ’s c o n f i d a n t Satish Babanna is already under custody. SIT officers were trailing Revanna for four days. They had kept a hawk’s eye on him to ensure he did not escape considering that his son and party MP Prajwal scooted to Germany using a diplomatic passport. Officials had to wait for 45 minutes outside Deva Gowda’s residence before arresting Revanna as the doors were shut. Finally, Revanna emerged from the house and was taken into custody . Waiting for Canada info on arrests: Jaishankar BIJOY PRADHAN @ 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 twoday visit to state, Jaishankar said the three arr e s t e d p e r s o n s we r e 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,” he said and added 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 their soil. They have given political legitimacy to Khalistani elements for vote bank politics.” TRUTH BE RETOLD WITH THIS ISSUE PLUS 12 PAGES 2 BRS MLAs in rare 3-cornered contest in TG SW ET H AV I M A L A M @ Hyderabad IN the narrow lanes and bylanes of Secunderabad, there are striking blackand-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 the Secunderabad parliamentary constituency, the former is the incumbent BRS MLA from the Assembly segment bearing the same name. In the Lok Sabha elections, these two leaders, along with BRS MLA Danam Nagender, are battling it out for the Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat. Nagender, who won on a BRS ticket from Khairatabad Assembly segment in the December 2023 Assembly polls, has jumped ship — but not yet resigned as a legislator — and is now contesting on a Congress ticket. All the three MP candidates have years of political experience and have held several important positions. BJP’s Kishan Reddy is the state party president and also Union minister for Culture, Tourism and Development of Northeastern Region; BRS’s Padma Rao is a four-time MLA, former minister in the state Cabinet and ex-deputy speaker of Telangana Le gislative Assembly; Congress candidate Nagender is a six-time MLA, former minister and former president of Greater Hyderabad Cong ress Committee (GHCC). With three senior leaders battling for the seat, this is one among a handful of three-cornered contests in the state with the BRS too in ILLUSTRATION: the race — MANDAR PARDIKAR thanks to a strong candidate in Padma Rao. Sources said internal surveys of parties currently place Kishan slightly ahead of Nagender, with the BRS candidate a close third. While Secunderabad was earlier a Congress stronghold, the BJP has won in five out of eight LS polls from 1991. In the 2023 Assembly polls, the BRS secured six of the seven segments constituting the LS seat (Jubilee Hills, Secunderabad, Amberpet, Musheerabad, Khairatabad and Sanathnagar), except for Nampally, where the AIMIM won. In Secunderabad, where Padma Rao has been elected as MLA for three consecutive terms from 2014, and neighbouring Musheerabad, there is support for the BRS with some even calling it a fight between the BJP and the pink party . CONTINUED ON P6 Published by: Bharatiya Janata Party, 6A, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, New Delhi P RAV E E N KU M A R
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