FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLII No. 150 | INDORE | THURSDAY | NOVEMBER 6, 2025 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports NEW DAWN OR LAST DUSK? P.12 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE MONEY UJJAIN PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK Cinema Delhi Crime returns P.14 IT’S A STEAL | Congress leader claims in the 2024 Haryana Assembly polls, 25 lakh votes were wrongfully added, 3.5 lakh were deleted to benefit BJP Rahul drops H bomb Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday made another powerpoint presentation to claim vote theft in the Haryana Assembly election in 2024 in which he said nearly 25 lakh votes were added fraudulently while over 3.5 lakh, primarily of his party’s supporters, were deleted wrongly to keep it from forming a government in the state. Alleging large-scale voter fraud in elections across India – be it in the Lok Sabha polls, Karnataka, Maharashtra or the Bihar polls – he said: “It’s my duty as a patriotic Indian and as the Leader of Opposition to let you know the real world that you're living in. You have to understand that there was no election in Haryana -- it was a lie. We are informing the people that the PM and the Home Minister are not legitimately in government.” He made an appeal to the youth to act, saying, “India's Gen Z and the youth have the power to restore democracy with “satya” (truth) and ahimsa (non-violence) -- by fighting for ‘Sinister attempt’ fp 22 aliases for Brazilian model Rahul Gandhi raised questions around how 22 votes prepared in the name of a Brazilian model were cast at 10 booths. Gandhi raised the issue by showing the model’s photo and asking the journalists present if they could identify the state she belonged to. “Who is this lady? What is her name? Where does she come from? But she votes 22 times in Haryana, at 10 different booths, and has multiple names: Seema, Sweety, Saraswati, Rashmi, Vilma... “ No appeals filed against poll rolls: EC The EC has denied the allegation levelled by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi regarding alleged voter theft during the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections saying no appeals were filed against the electoral rolls and only 22 election petitions are currently pending in the Punjab and Haryana HC in connection with the polls. a democratic India and by resisting this wholesale theft and murder of the Constitution and democracy.” Gandhi claimed that as most exit polls had predicted a Con- gress win in Haryana polls and since the direction of postal ballots did not match the rest of the voting his party investigated the issue and found that “the Haryana election voter list E-paper Edit Rich vs Poor: The gap widens P.6 MANY SENSITIVE, SERIOUS ISSUES! NEW DELHI MUMBAI Political ground shifting to Democrats as Zohran Mamdani scripts history to be NY’s first Indian-origin Muslim mayor Highlights The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday termed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s claims on largescale voter fraud during the 2024 Haryana assembly elections a “sinister attempt to erode public faith in our democratic institutions.” Addressing a press conference, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju questioned the timing of Gandhi’s attack, coming as it does on the eve of voting in the Bihar Assembly elections on Wednesday, and termed his claims of mass vote theft in Haryana as “false and baseless”. Rijiju said Gandhi’s press conference was a diversionary tactic to “hide his failures”. MAMDANI LEADS BLUE STREAK ACROSS US 25 lakh votes in 5 4Continued on | P8 was filled with duplicate voters” who numbered nearly 25 lakh or one-eighth of the 2 crore electorate.” Terming the expose on Haryana polls “H Files”, the Con- Winners categories. Duplicate voters 5,21,000. Invalid addresses 93,000. Bulk voters 19 lakhs. CCTV records destroyed. 3.5 lakh cut from voter list. Ghazala Hashmi Virginia’s Lt Governor 223 votes were found in one booth with the same photo a new name every time 501 voters were found registered in a single house -- a house that exists only on paper Thousands of people were found whose votes are registered in both Haryana and Uttar Pradesh – these included many BJP leaders and workers gress leader said before the polls his party had realised that 'Operation Government Theft' was underway. 4Continued on | P8 Agencies NEW YORK Zohran Mamdani, the 34year-old Indian-origin democratic socialist, scripted history by winning the fiercely contested New York City mayoral polls, becoming the first South Asian, Muslim and youngest in a century to helm the world’s financial capital. His victory marked by emotional tributes, political defiance, and even a Bollywood twist - has been hailed as a turning point for progressive politics in America. Mamdani, son of Indian filmmaker Mira Nair and Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani, defeated former New York Governor Andrew RAIPUR 3 Maoists dead in gunfight 3.75 cr voters to decide fate of 1,314 candidates Dheeraj Kumar PATNA In a fresh flare-up of antiMaoist operations, security forces in Chhattisgarh have reportedly killed three Maoist insurgents during an ongoing encounter in the dense forests of Bijapur district. The clash erupted on Wednesday in the Tarlaguda region, near the border of Telangana, where joint teams of police and paramilitary forces are conducting combing operations, police sources said. Amid tight security arrangements, over 3.75 crore voters are set to exercise their franchise in the first phase of the Bihar assembly elections on Thursday to decide the fate of 1,314 candidates, including 1,192 men and 122 women. A total of 121 assembly constituencies will go to the polls in this phase, of which 102 are general seats and 19 are reserved for the Scheduled Castes. These constituencies are spread across Tourist dragged away by crocs at Six killed in train accident Chambal Safari MIRZAPUR At least six pilgrims were killed after being run over by a train at Chunar railway station in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday morning, officials said. According to officials, the victims had just alighted from a train and were attempting to cross the railway tracks when a speeding train arriving on the adjacent track hit them. 18 districts: Madhepura, Saharsa, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj, Siwan, Saran, Vaishali, Samastipur, Begusarai, Khagaria, Munger, Lakhisarai, Sheikhpura, Nalanda, Patna, Bhojpur, and Buxar. A mock poll will be conducted at 5 am on Thursday in the presence of booth-level agents, with voting beginning at 7 am. The polling will continue till 6 pm, except at a few sensitive booths where it will end at 5 pm. 4Continued on | P8 PTI FP News Service MORENA Panic swept Rajghat Bridge area of Chambal River after a tourist, Roop Singh Gurjar (40) from Karauli, Rajasthan, was tragically attacked and dragged into the water by three crocodiles simultaneously. Gurjar was reportedly standing with his son and brother-in-law on the riverbank when the attack occurred. Despite the frantic screams of his family, the crocodiles pulled him under water. Visitors note a complete lack of security guards or warning signs in the popular tourist area, which draws large numbers of domestic and foreign visitors daily for boating and sightseeing. Police and administrative officials have arrived on the scene and an SDRF team is currently engaged in an intensive search operation of Chambal River to locate the victim. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said India and the US are holding continuous discussions for the proposed bilateral trade agreement. "Talks are going well...and are continuously going on. ..kaee samvedanasheel mudde hai, kaee gambheer mudde hai, toh svaabhaavik hai ki Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL torchbearers of new era Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets the champions of the Women’s World Cup in New Delhi, Wednesday IANS/PMO thoda samay lagega (There are many sensitive issues, many serious issues, so it is natural that it will take some time)," he told reporters here. He was replying to a question about the progress on India-US negotiations on the pact. Goyal is here on a four-day official visit. He is leading a business delegation. Five rounds of talks have been completed so far for the first phase of the bilateral trade agreement between the US and India. A team of Indian officials, headed by Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal, was in Washington last month to hold trade talks with their US counterparts. The three-day talks ended on October 17. In February this year, National AI governance guidelines unveiled Agencies NEW DELHI In a landmark move towards shaping India's artificial intelligence future, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Wednesday unveiled the India AI Governance Guidelines under the IndiaAI Mission, laying the foundation for a safe, inclusive, and responsible AI ecosystem across sectors. The guidelines aim to balance innovation and accountability, ensuring that AI serves as a catalyst for inclusive growth and public trust. They are structured around seven guiding principles, Trust, People First, Innovation over Restraint, Fairness & Equity, Accountability, Understandable by De- sign, and Safety, Resilience & Sustainability, forming what the government calls the "Seven Sutras" of India's AI governance philosophy. Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay Kumar Sood highlighted the core ethos of the framework, stating that the guiding principle of India's AI approach is "Do No Harm". offgrid ‘India, China greenhouse gas culprits’ Agencies NEW DELHI UN reports say India and China recorded the highest absolute increases of greenhouse gases, while the European Union was the only major economy to see a decline. Global temperatures are now predicted to rise between 2.3 and 2.5 degrees Celsius this century, even if countries fully implement their national climate pledges, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2025. The projection marks a slight improvement from last year’s estimate of 2.6 to 2.8 degrees Celsius, but remains far above the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit set under the 2015 Paris Agreement. The report said current policies put the world on track for 2.8 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100, down slightly from last year’s 3.1degree projection. It noted that last year, global green- 4Continued on | P8 Farmers will get non-stop 10-hr electricity: CM India, US trade talks are going well: Goyal AUCKLAND Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. The Queens state assemblyman secured over 50% of the votes, emerging victorious in a race that drew global attention. Aftab Pureval Cincinnati mayor Mikie Sherrill New Jersey governor Gavin Newsom California governor Disputed circular over Krishi feeder withdrawn, CE shifted BIHAR POLLS PHASE 1 TODAY Briefs Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru -- a moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Tonight, we have stepped out from the old into the new. house gas emissions reached a record 57.7 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, a 2.3 per cent rise from the previous year. Deforestation and land-use changes accounted for more than half of this increase, while fossil fuel emissions continued to grow. The report warned that the world is still “off target” to meet global climate goals, noting that the global multidecadal temperature average is expected to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius within the next decade, at least temporarily. 4Continued on | P8 leaders of India and the US directed officials to negotiate a proposed Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA). They have fixed a deadline to conclude the first tranche of the pact by the fall of 2025. These deliberations are important, as relations between the two countries have been under severe strain since the US President Donald Trump 4Continued on | P8 Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company withdrew the disputed circular over Krishi feeder after receiving directives from Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Wednesday. The chief engineer AK Jain, who issued the circular, was shifted from the Operation and Maintenance Section of the power company and shifted to the non-conventional section. Yadav said the farmers would get a ten-hour non-stop Many employees lost salary due to old circular The circular that led to the removal of the chief engineer was five years old. According to sources, additional power is supplied to the farmers in the Gwalior-Chambal region because of collusion of the power users and officials. This was the reason that the circular was issued. As a result, the salary of many employees was cut. Now that the government has cancelled the circular, the employees will not lose their salary. Pakistan turns back Hindu pilgrims en route to Nankana Sahib FP Online NEW DELHI Pakistani authorities at the Wagah border barred a group of Hindus, who had crossed into Pakistan alongside a larger Sikh delegation, from proceeding further, despite having completed all formalities to travel to Nankana Sahib for Guru Nanak Dev's birth anniversary. Indian officials condemned the act, describing it as discriminatory and unprecedented, and suggested it may have been intended to create divisions. Many Hindu devotees returned dejected, raising concerns about future pilgrimages, including those to Kartarpur Sahib. The Hindus, including families from Delhi and Lucknow, “walked back humiliated” after Pakistani officials announced that only those power supply and that the government was committed to protecting their interests. The official concerned was also removed, Yadav said. The power company reissued an old circular that if the electricity was supplied to the farmers for more than ten hours, the officers doing so would lose a day’s salary. The circular also mentioned the designations of the officials who would lose their salary for supplying power for more than ten hours. The order spawned resentment among the officials of the power company. With the withdrawal of the current circular, the previous one issued on August 31, 2020, also stands withdrawn. A 'jatha' of nearly 1,900 Sikh pilgrims crossed over to Pak through Attari-Wagah border for 'Parkash Purb' of Guru Nanak listed as Sikhs would be allowed to board the bus bound for the sacred site in Nankana Sahib. "Pakistani officials told us you are Hindu, you cannot go with a Sikh jatha," said Amar Chand, who was sent back along with six of his family members after they crossed over to the neighbouring nation to participate in the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev. A 'jatha' (a group) of nearly 1,900 Sikh pilgrims crossed over to Pakistan through the 4Continued on | P8 Maharashtra first link of Starlink MUMBAI: Maharashtra has become the first state in India to sign a Letter of Intent (LoI) with US-based Starlink Satellite Communications, marking a major step in bringing advanced satellite-based internet services to the state. The agreement was signed on Wednesday in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Information Technology Minister Ashish Shelar. After the recent opening of Tesla’s first outlet in Mumbai, this collaboration is being seen as another major achievement for both the state government and the Elon Musk-owned companies. Under this partnership, Starlink’s satellite internet services will be deployed across government institutions, rural communities, and critical public infrastructure in Maharashtra.