FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. XLI No. 357 | INDORE | WEDNESDAY | JUNE 4, 2025 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 www.freepressjournal.in Nation Prime Minister Modi calls CMs of flood-hit NE states, assures all help P.8 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE WORLD CONG NEEDS CHARGERS, NOT LAME HORSES: RAGA Our Staff Reporter ‘PM Narendra turned surrender Modi, when Trump called’ iting an example, Rahul said the BJP and the RSS came under pressure very easily. Citing the example, he said, “When pressure came from the US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned Surrender Modi.” He claimed that the then PM Indira Gandhi was also threatened by the USA president. She was told that the USA would send its 7th Fleet, but Indira Gandhi was not scared and did what was the best for the nation. C BHOPAL Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has said the Congress needs chargers, not the lame horses. Rahul made the statement at a meeting with party leaders at Ravindra Bhawan in Bhopal on Tuesday. He also launched the party’s Sangam Srujan Abhiyan (Organisation’s Rejuvenation Campaign) to bolster the party at the grassroots ahead of the 2028 assembly election. Sixty-one AICC observers, together with the 183 PCC observers, have asked to select the DCC presidents. Congress MP from Rae Bareli told the JUSTICE VARMA Impeachment next session PTI NEW DELHI The govt will bring an impeachment motion against Justice Yashwant Varma in Parliament's next session and will seek to build an all-party consensus for action against the Allahabad High Court judge embroiled in a case of suspected corruption. Government sources said on Tuesday that Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju will be speaking to leaders of different parties to get them on board for the impeachment motion against the judge following his indictment by a three-member committee constituted by the then CJI Sanjiv Khanna. A fire incident at Varma's residence in the national capital in March this year when he was a judge at the Delhi High Court had led to the discovery of sacks of cash in the outhouse. Though the judge claimed innocence, the Supreme Court-appointed committee indicted him. Justice Varma, who was transferred to the Allahabad High Court during the controversy, was nudged to resign but has refused, prompting Khanna to write to the President and the Prime Minister to take measures for his removal. Lesson for PAC members Government won’t conduct caste census ashing out at the Centre, Rahul Gandhi said the centre had agreed to conduct the caste census, but they would not do it. They took a decision on women’s reservation, but they never carried it out, so they would just delay it, Rahul said. He asked the party leaders to conduct the caste census on the lines of Telangana because it covers all aspects of the welfare of the society. L ahul told the members of the political affairs committee to bring the party to power. They have to work together for the wellbeing of the party, sinking personal differences to defeat the BJP.” R party leaders to select at least six names and send them to the AICC before June 30. “I do not need one or two leaders from Madhya Pradesh. I need 52 leaders. The district Congress committee presidents will be account- able and responsible for the party,” he said. PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Edit A deluge of systemic flaws P.6 27 killed in Gaza aid site firing, 3rd incident in 3 days RAGA IN BHOPAL | He launched party’s Sangam Srujan Abhiyan to bolster the party at the grassroots DCC presidents will get more teeth and talk to LoP directly UJJAIN Cinema Salman’s priceless advice for Neil P.12 Ladakh gets job, language reservations FP News Service NEW DELHI The Centre on Tuesday announced sweeping domicile, job reservation, and language policies for Ladakh, aimed at addressing longstanding demands for constitutional safeguards. Eighty-five percent of government jobs in the Union Territory will now be reserved for locals. A third of all seats in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (LAHDCs) — Leh and Kargil — will be reserved for women, with the allocation rotating across constituencies. To qualify as a domicile of Ladakh, a person must have resided in the UT for 15 years, or studied for seven years and passed Class 10 or 12 from an institution in Ladakh. Children of central government officials and others who have served in Ladakh for 10 years will also qualify. 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 Agri innovation hub with MPSEDC as co-partner gets Cabinet nod Offices of Principal Revenue Commissioner, Commissioner, Land Records, to be restructured Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL In a significant decision, the Cabinet on Tuesday approved the restructuring of the offices of the Principal Revenue Commissioner and the Commissioner, Land Record Offices. The unified office will be that of the Commissioner, Land Resource Management. The office will have a headquarters and an auxiliary headquarters. At the meeting held at the Raj Bhawan in Pachmarhi in honour of Raja Bhabhoot Singh, the Cabinet also approved the establishment and operation of an agriculture hub or an innovation hub for agriculture. The Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation (MPSEDC) would be a copartner in the project. 4Continued on | P8 Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL The state government is again going to take a loan. It plans to borrow Rs 4,500 crore from the market. The loan will be worth Rs 2,000 and 2,500 crore. After Astronaut Shukla's space flight postponed to June 10 PTI NEW DELHI Axiom Space's mission to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others, has been postponed to June 10 at 5:52 pm IST, onboard SpaceX's Falcon9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The announcement was made during a virtual press conference with the Axiom-4 mission crew members, who are currently in quarantine before their travel to the ISS. 4Continued on | P8 this, the government will be under a debt of Rs 4,31,240 crore. The debt of the state government is more than its yearly budget. Before this, a sum of Rs 5,000 crore was taken. A sum of Rs 2,000 crore is taken for 16 years. The government has to pay interest on the loan till 2041. A sum of Rs 2,500 crore is taken for 18 years. The opposition is criticising the government for taking loans. But the government says it has borrowed money for development works. NOT A ‘KAMA(A)L’ APOLOGY FP Online T he Karnataka High Court came down heavily on Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan on Tuesday for his recent "Kannada is born out of Tamil" statement. Asking him to apologise to the Kannadigas, the HC said that the actor had the right to speech, but not the right to hurt sentiments. As Haasan moved the HC on Monday to secure a release for his upcoming film, Thug Life, in Karnataka amid boycott threats, the court said that it will not "permit anyone to take Pachmarhi Sanctuary to be renamed after Raja Bhabhut Singh hief Minister Mohan Yadav, while addressing ministers before the Cabinet meeting, said that the Pachmarhi Sanctuary will be known as Raja Bhabhut Singh Pachmarhi Sanctuary. The life struggle and valour of Raja Bhabhut Singh will be displayed in the sanctuary. There is a deep impact of Raja Bhabhut Singh on the tribals. C 4Continued on | P8 IANS 3-DAY RITUALS he Ram Darbar Prana Pratishtha ceremony will span three days and conclude on June 5, coinciding with Ganga Dussehra, a highly auspicious occasion in the Hindu calendar. T Ram Darbar, the royal form of Lord Ram, at the upper part of Lord Ram Lalla’s birthplace is a very auspicious and joyous assessment of damage: CDS Agencies PUNE Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan said that the armed forces would evaluate the data concerning the strikes' results based on technical parameters and come out with a rough assessment shortly of the damage inflicted on Pakistan "Since there's always this inquisitivity as to the result of strikes, which was visible more in the psychological do- public sentiments for a ride". "Why can't you apologise? Withdraw that statement... that is all. Crores can be earned from Karnataka... but if you don't need the people (of Kannada) then leave the revenue," the court said. main, to all of us and everyone globally. We will take out this particular data based on technical parameters and share it with you. We will tell you how many aircraft we destroyed and how many radars we destroyed. We'll make a rough assessment and come out with that shortly," CDS Chauhan said while delivering a special lecture on 'Future Wars and Warfare' at Savitribai Phule University. CDS Chauhan recalled Op- event.” Mahamandaleshwar Vishnu Das Ji Maharaj, who participated in the rituals, said, “From today, the Prana Pratishtha ceremony of Ram Darbar will begin, which will continue for three days. I visited the Ram Temple at 5 a.m. this morning. Lord Ram's idol was anointed with water from the Saryu River, and the worship is currently ongoing.” Foreign Embassy staffer puts up Netanyahu’s ‘wanted’ poster in Delhi 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 PTI 2.0 file a petition for divorce. Once an application under Section 14 (1) of the Act, 1955 is filed before the court, certainly the court has to see whether there is exceptional hardship to the petitioner or exceptional depravity on the part of the respondent.” Parties got married on 05.08.2024 and marriage was registered on 12.08.2024. Parties again solemnized their marriage according to Hindu rites and customs on 03.09.2024. Thereafter, due to hostilities, husband raised a complaint on IGRS portal claiming threat of false FIR by the wife. In retaliation, the wife lodged an FIR under Sections 115(2), 352 and 351(3) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. Subsequently, the wife lodged another FIR under Sections 376 and 506 IPC and Section 3⁄4 POCSO Act. 4Continued on | P8 In a bid to boost transparency and speed in the electoral process, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has introduced a tech-driven system to provide near real-time updates on voter turnout trends. This new mechanism is designed to replace the older, manual reporting process, which often resulted in delays of four to five hours. Under the new system, presiding officers (PROs) at each polling station will enter approximate voter turnout figures every two hours directly into the ECINET app. Eighteen seasons in, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) are finally IPL champions. Their victory in their fourth final came at the expense of another trophy-less team that had put together a heartwarming IPL 2025 campaign; it wasn't to be for Punjab Kings (PBKS), but their time will surely come too. The margin of victory was narrow - six runs Sixteen parties of the INDIA bloc have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a special session of Parliament to discuss the recently concluded Operation Sindoor and India’s strategic response to Pakistan’s alleged terror links. The demand, initiated by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, was signed by senior leaders including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee, DMK’s T.R. Balu, and Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Aaditya Thackeray. Meeting at the Constitution Club, the opposition leaders put aside recent electoral rifts to rally around the issue. However, the Aam Aadmi Party, still smarting from post-poll disunity, abstained from the meeting and did not sign the letter. (see nation) FP News Service MUMBAI RCB ends 18-yr itch, lifts IPL trophy Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Big HC order on marriage dissolution or exceptional depravity on the part of the respondent. The bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice Brij Raj Singh held “The proviso to Section 14 (1) of the Act, 1955 is an exception to the necessity for expiration of a period of one year since the date of marriage to enable a party to 4Continued on | P8 NEW DELHI offgrid Section 14 of the Act mandates that no divorce petition can be presented before any court within 1 year of marriage. Proviso to Section 14(1) provides that such application can be entertained if the Court before which it is filed if there is exception hardship faced by the party presenting it eration Parakram launched against Pakistan in response to the 2001 Parliament attacks, which incurred huge expenses since the security personnel were deployed for about nine months. "From our side, we didn't want to get into a long-drawn conflict. We've seen our experience in Operation Parakram. We were there for almost nine months. It involves a lot of expenditure and disrupts everything. ECI quickens voter reporting INDORE’S RAJAT DELIVERS KOHLI’S DREAM MANN’S ‘ONE NATION, ONE HUSBAND’ REMARK ROW PTI NEW DELHI T T OP SINDOOR EFFECT ON PAKISTAN Oppn writes to PM, seeks Op Sindoor Parl session AYODHYA RAM TEMPLE PRANA PRATISHTHA The second phase of the consecration (Prana Pratishtha) ceremony at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya began on Tuesday. Deveshacharya Ji Maharaj of the Siddha Peeth Hanumangarhi expressed his joy over the event, stating, “It is a matter of great joy for all Sanatanis and devotees of Lord Ram. The establishment of he Allahabad High Court has held that if after filing of criminal case by one spouse against other, the parties have approached the court for divorce by the mutual consent, the same must be granted by invoking the proviso to Section 14 (1) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act provides for divorce by mutual consent. he Cabinet has also approved the transfer of Composite Logistic Hub Pawarkheda project, operated by M/S Kesar Multi Model Logistic Limited, to M/S D.P. World Multi ModelLogistic Production Limited. The Cabinet gave its nod to amend three labour lawsto simplify the process in labour laws and to lessen the burdenof implementation on small, medium institutions and Industries. Govt to take loan of `4.5k cr again Government to reveal rough NEW DELHI Online report COMPOSITE LOGISTIC HUB The Delhi Police has informed the home ministry about an embassy staffer of a Western European nation allegedly putting up "wanted" posters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Chanakyapuri area here, an official said on Tuesday. The incident came to light at around 7.30 am on May 29, when personnel from the Chanakyapuri Police Station noticed two such posters on electricity poles near the Carmel Convent School on Malcha Marg and the American Embassy School, he said. Chanakyapuri houses several embassies and international institutions, and is under heightened surveillance. "The beat staff alerted senior officers, and instructions were issued to remove the posters," a senior police officer said. Subsequently, police teams launched an investigation and scanned CCTV footage to ascertain the identity of the person responsible. "Upon reviewing the footage, a man in a blue shirt and black trousers was seen arriving on a bicycle at around 5.30 am. 4Continued on | P8 CHANDIGARH A political controversy erupted on Tuesday over Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's "one nation, one husband" remark, with the BJP accusing him of insulting the widows of those killed in the Pahalgam terror attack. Mann Tuesday took a dig at the BJP over Operation Sindoor, accusing it of seeking votes in the name of 'sindoor' (vermillion) and asked if it had started a "one nation, one husband" scheme. Calling Mann's remarks "disgraceful", Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu said the chief minister has "insulted" the widows of those killed in the Pahalgam attack. (SEE NATION)