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Bharara Sacking‘Was probing Trumpcabinet member’ P 12

Pujara Leads FightbackHits 130* as India score360/6, trail by 91 runs P 17

Fiery BMW CrashRacing champion Ashwin, wife die P 7

Thirteen workers con-victed of murder dur-

ing the labour unrest at Ma-ruti’s Manesar plant in 2012were sentenced to life im-prisonment on Saturday. Ofthe 18 others convicted ofrioting, four were jailed forfive years. The remaining 14were given three-year jailterms and released as theyhad already spent that timein prison. P 7

Maruti unrest:13 get life term

The two clerics of Delhi’sHazrat Nizamuddin

Aulia Dargah, who wentmissing in Pakistan on Ma-rch 14, were found in Karac-hi, local media reported. P 7

Missing clericsfound in Karachi

Games board students play Mnemonics or memory aids that include a liberal dose of weird acronyms and Bollywood songs help kids ace exams P14

Beyond borders In an interview, Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid says he is optimistic that the border control obsession is a temporary phase P16

India in a bottle From the smell of chai to wet earth, perfumers are reinventing desi scents P14

Lucknow/New Delhi: PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andBJP chief Amit Shah chose saf-fron hardliner Yogi Aditya-nath to be the chief minister ofUP in a defiant assertion of the-ir Hindutva nationalist creden-tials midway through the termof the NDA regime.

The controversial five-termMP from Gorakhpur is knownfor his hardline and polarizingrhetoric and belongs to the ex-treme right, or the “fringe”that many warned Modi about

and wanted to be shunned. Bypicking him to govern India’slargest state, Modi and Shahhave sent across a clear messa-ge that they will be bound byneither the norms of “politicsas usual” nor the requirementsof political correctness.

Coming after the “surgicalstrikes” and demonetisation,the appointment of Yogi, anunabashed leader of the Ram Janmabhoomi move-ment, can be termed the third“disruptive move” of the saf-fron regime, and is part of thepopulist nationalism BJP se-ems to be crafting around thetheme of Hindutva.

BJP picks Hindutva hardlinerYogi Adityanath as CM of UP

MAHANT TO MUKHYAMANTRIWHY ADITYANATH➤ Hindu consolidation ahead of 2019 polls around populist nationalism. He is a powerful advocate of Hindutva and a fiery orator

➤ Defiance of conventional politics and critics of Hindutva, reflects ‘disruptive’style of surgical strikes and demonetisation decisions

➤ Reputation for simplicity, tough image could help signal intent to tackle law and order

➤ Though a forward Thakur,his saffron image gives him a following across castes

THE RISKS➤ Dilution of development claims by BJP brass during campaign

➤ His ‘dabang’ image is a polarising signal to Muslims

➤ Untested as an administrator

June 5, 1972 | Born Ajay Singh Bisht in Garhwal, is a maths graduate from Garhwal University

1994 | Takes deeksha as disciple of Gorakhnath Math’s Mahant Avaidyanath

1998 | Wins Gorakhpur LS seat for 1st time at 26. Has won seat 5 times on the trot

2002 | Launches HinduYuva Vahini, a socio-cultural nationalistic outfit

2007 | Ties with BJP strained over candidate selection. RSS intervenes. Goes to jail for first time for flouting prohibitionary order to lead procession for a Hindu riot victim

2014 | Becomes mahant of Gorakhnath Math

YOGISPEAK | Sept 2014There have been 450 riots cases in west UP... because the

population of a particular community is rising... Where there are 20%-35% of them, riots take place and where they are over 35%, there is no place for non-Muslims

Yogi, after being named CM

Gorakhpur: The chief mini-ster-designate of Uttar Pra-desh was born in the hills toRajput parents.

According to the recordsof Gorakhnath Math, whichhe now heads, Yogi Aditya-nath was born Ajay SinghBisht on June 5, 1972.

Little is known of his pre-Yogi days, except that he got aBSc degree in maths and re-nounced his family at the ageof 21 to become a disciple ofMahant Avaidyanath, then

the head priest of Gorakh-nath Math.

In the years that followed,Adityanath trained as a sany-asi, protecting cows, learningabout Hinduism and maste-ring Hindu texts, and emer-ging, in less than five yearssince he was co-opted, as hisGuru’s most beloved disciple.As the successor of Guru Go-rakhnath temple, he also tookcharge of running the scho-ols and colleges under Maha-rana Pratap Siksha Parishadand the management of GuruGorakhnath Hospital.

Maths grad who turned sanyasiArjumand Bano TNN

�‘Aimed at Hindu bloc’, P 9

The Department of Reve-nue Intelligence (DRI)carried out extensive

searches at container depotsin Chennai, Tughlakabad,Kanpur, Kolkata and Mum-bai following a tip-off aboutlarge consignments of fakeIndian currency notes beingbrought through ports.

Import cargo was frozenat three sea ports in TamilNadu and at Chennai air-port. Not a single import con-tainer left Kolkata port onSaturday because of the DRI-customs operation. It wasvirtually taken over by DRIand customs officials andport officials were not beingkept in the loop, sources said.

A senior customs officialin Chennai said they haveidentified a container atChennai port, which, accor-

ding to an intelligence input,may have Rs 400 crore in fakecurrency. “We will open it to-morrow,” said the official.Another official in Mumbaisaid some AK-47 rifles mighthave reached an inland con-tainer terminal in Tughlak-abad, Delhi. A DRI official re-fused to confirm any seizure.

“There was an intelligen-ce alert that fake currencywas being brought into thecountry through the contai-

ner route,” said an official inDelhi. Sources said the cargowould be released once thesearch is over.

Sources in Mumbai saidDRI and CBI swung into ac-tion following informationgathered by the national se-curity adviser’s office thatRs 150 crore in fake currencyhad been smuggled into thecountry. Information indica-ted that the fake currencyoriginated in Pakistan andmay have landed at Chennai,Mumbai or ICD Tughlaka-bad. An official said importsat these three locations havebeen stopped, which meansno container will leave theport without examination.This is bound to create chaosas currently only random in-spection of containers hap-pens at the ports.

Ports, containers searchedin 5 cities over FICN alert

➤ Searches conducted after inputs that fake currency had been smuggled into India

➤ Import cargo was frozen at three TN sea ports, airport

➤ Container identified at Chennai port may have FICN

➤ AK-47s likely at container terminal in Delhi’s Tughlakabad

NOTES SMUGGLED

�Other cities alerted, P 6

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Kolkata: There’s a buzz in the world of the visu-ally impaired. Seventy years after Independen-ce, the blind can sense what the countrylooks like, trace its mighty rivers andmountains and touch its megacities.

The National Atlas & ThematicMapping Organisation (Natmo), a cen-tral government undertaking underthe department of science & technolo-gy, has prepared an atlas of India inBraille that will allow the blind to ‘see’India’s physiography, river systems, so-ils, crop patterns, metro cities, road net-work and political map.

“There is a lot of excitement, in our organiza-tion and more so in blind schools, to see the ex-pression of students as they lay their hands on

the atlas and sense our country in its physicalform,” said Natmo director Tiasha Banerjee.

The Braille atlas finally coming to fruition isan emotional moment for Banerjee and her team

as the initiative had begun two decadesago. Natmo had first prepared a Brailleatlas on a sheet of metal but the experi-ment flopped as visually impaired child-ren called to experience it did not likethe feel. It then tried the atlas on a vinylboard. Once again, it was rejected by theblind. Finally, Natmo went back to thetried-and-trusted medium: paper. Whenagroup of boys from the National Insti-tute of Visually Handicapped, Dehra-

dun, experienced the maps last month, their fa-ces instantly lit up.

70 yrs after Independence,blind can finally ‘see’ India

Subhro.Niyogi@timesgroup.com

BRAILLE ATLAS

�Teachers’ training before launch, P 5

FULL COVERAGE: P 9 & 11

�Giant following, P 9

Party Seen To BeSeeking Majority

ConsolidationAhead Of LS Polls

Rajiv Srivastava & Akhilesh Singh TNN

ACBI team began the pre-liminary inquiry into

the Narada sting case on Sat-urday and took possession ofthe unedited Narada tapesfrom a city bank locker. P 5

CBI beginsNarada probe

Deputy chief ministers to UPCM-designate Yogi

Adityanath, Keshav Mauryaand Dinesh Sharma, saidsources, would represent acaste balance and bear someof the administrative load ofthe new government, givenAdityanath could need sometime to learn the ropes. P 9

2 Dy CMs to balancework, caste equation

After Surgical Strikes & Demonetisation, Another Radical Move