WEDNESDAY 09 OCTOBER 2024 www.thestatesman.com X.com/thestatesmanltd. Fb/thestatesman1875 INDIA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER SINCE 1818 Pages 12 |` 5.00|LC KOLKATA | NEW DELHI | SILIGURI | BHUBANESWAR ‘THERE IS NO QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP CHANGE IN KARNATAKA’ RBI SHIFT THE REFORMER AS A HEALER P4 SENSEX 81,634.81p584.81 ` vs $ 83.96 P7 GOLD 77,930.00 P12 BRENT CRUDE (IN $) 79.53q1.40 SILVER 96,000 BJP hat-trick in Haryana, NC-Cong comeback in J&K WEATHER Thunderstorms. Storms could contain frequent lightning. Maximum and minimum temperatures likely to be around 33°C and 26°C respectively. RAINFALL: NIL RELATIVE HUMIDITY Max. 88% Min. 74% Max: 33.4˚C SUN RISES 05:30 hrs MOON RISES 11:06 hrs Min: 26.8˚C SUN SETS 17:16 hrs MOON SETS 21:43 hrs TEMPERATURE NIFTY 25,013.15p217.40 P6 INDIA AIM FOR BIG WIN AGAINST SRI LANKA New Moon on 17 October THUMBNAILS The mountaineering team of INS Satavahana holding the National Flag pose for a picture on summiting Mt.Yunam (20,500 ft) commemorating the Submarine Training Base's golden jubilee, on Tuesday.n ANI Pioneers in AI win Physics Nobel: Two pioneers of artificial intelligence – John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity, one of the winners said. Hinton, who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton. (Details on Page 9) The BJP retained power in Haryana for a third consecutive term, and its arch-opponent Cong was set to enjoy power in J&K with NC DEEPAK RAZDAN NEW DELHI, 8 OCTOBER D efying all exit polls, the BJP on Tuesday registered a hat-trick victory in the Haryana Assembly election, inflicting a big jolt to the Congress, which had overestimated its performance and prematurely thought it was time to celebrate. The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly poll results, on the other hand, unveiled a comfortable win for the National Conference-Congress alliance, which kept the BJP under check and decimated the People's Democratic Party (PDP) which ran the government in the previous Assembly. The BJP won 48 seats in Haryana, while the Congress was restricted to 37, with the INLD winning two and Independents three in the 90-member House. The election proved lucky for Chief Minister Nayab Saini who had replaced Mr Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister since 2014, only six months ago. In Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference (NC) won 42 seats, its electoral partner Congress secured six, while the BJP won 29 seats. The PDP was reduced to just three seats, and the CPI (M) and the AAP won one seat each in the 90-member Assembly. NC leader Omar Abdullah was all set to take over as Chief Minister of the Union Territory. He won from both Ganderbal and Budgam seats. The BJP retained power in Haryana for a third consecutive term, and its archopponent Congress was set to enjoy power in Jammu and Kashmir with its bigger partner National Conference. The results overall showed the magic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programmes and policies and his campaign, acknowledged by voters in both States. The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is all set to witness BJP’s impressive membership, while Haryana has gone all the way to affirm where its heart lay. In the great upset of the day, the Congress has been rejected by Haryana voters for a third consecutive time. Early trends did not show this. At 8.45 am, the counting of votes showed the Congress 'winning' the poll. The picture was just the opposite in just one hour. The BJP was leading in more seats and the trend continued till the BJP trounced its arch-rival in the state convincingly in a steady counting of votes. The Congress till the last did not believe it could lose the election. Former Congress Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda won his Garhi Sampla-Kiloi seat by a comfortable margin of 71,000 votes. Contesting on Congress ticket, wrestler Vinesh Phogat was initially trailing in Julana after leading but was finally declared winner by over 6,000 votes. The Congress attributed its victories to its support for farmers. As Congress charged that the Election Commission website was slow in updating data on the results, it was getting clear the BJP was reducing the antiincumbency factor due to 10 years of its rule irrelevant in the state. The Haryana elections beat all exit polls which had predicted a clear win for the Congress. The Congress started distribution of 'laddoos' early in the day, but the celebrations had to be paused and abruptly halted as a different picture started emerging. It was quite a jolt for the Congress and hopes of the party ending its 'drought' in the key northern state were dashed. The BJP showed it can be at its deadly best when under pressure and is being taken for granted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini as the BJP went on to script history in the state. PM Modi congratulated Mr Saini for the party’s victory and for his stellar performance in the Ladwa constituency. (More reports on Pg 6) I salute the people for clear majority: PM National Conference-Cong alliance seals the deal in J&K SP SHARMA NEW DELHI, 8 OCTOBER NEW DELHI, 8 OCTOBER Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday termed the BJP's third successive win in Haryana Assembly elections as " the victory of politics of development and good governance" and complimented National Conference (NC) for their commendable performance in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls. In a post on X, Modi said, "Heartfelt gratitude to Haryana! I salute the people of Haryana for giving a clear majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party once again. This is the victory of politics of development and good governance. I assure the people here that we will leave no stone unturned to fulfill their aspirations." SNS Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah aggressively targeting the National Conference (NC) and Congress for being "pro-Pakistan", the alliance gained a comfortable majority as the assembly results came on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir. The NC President Dr Farooq Abdullah announced that his son Omar Abdullah, who won both Ganderbal and Budgam seats, will be the next chief minister. This will mark the return of Omar Abdullah as chief minister after a gap of ten years. He was CM from 5 January 2009 to 8 January 2015. These elections to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly were held after a gap of a decade and the first after the abrogation of Article 370 and downgrading of the state to a union territory. Out of the total 90 seats, NC has won 42, BJP bagged 29, Congress got 6, PDP 3, Peoples Conference 1, CPI(M) 1, AAP 1 and independents 7. The Lt. Governor will later nominate 5 members to the assembly. In a related development, the BJP has reportedly dispatched its two senior leaders, Devinder Rana and Tarun Chugh to Srinagar. Their mission to the valley is not yet known but Rana was a right-hand man of Omar Abdullah before he quit the NC and joined BJP. The PDP also suffered a shock with the defeat of Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti in a triangular contest in her family’s Bijbehara seat. However, the party managed to win three seats in the valley, Kupwara, Tral and Pulwama.