NEWSPAPERS’ SCAN
“Pak trying to fix Gujarat polls : Modi” is The Asian Age headline. PM accuses Congress of being in cahoots with Pakistan but Congress says PM relying on rumours, says the report.
The paper also reports of Rahul Gandhi formally taking over as Congress President on December 16th.”Modiji is fixated on himself : Rahul” headline The Pioneer quoting the Congress Vice President as saying no matter what he says about me, I won’t utter a single bad word about PM.
“Outrage in Hisar as 5 year old Dalit raped, brutalised with stick, killed” is a DNA headline, a chilling reminder of the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder in Delhi, 5 years ago. Haryana has recorded the highest rate of gangrapes for 3 years in a row, says the report.
Nitish Kumar, the Bihar CM, has pitched for a nation-wide ban on alcohol and has hit out at the Congress and left parties for not supporting the ban, reports The Tribune.
“Veejika Dera” – well that’s no ordinary dera, but a group of self-motivated volunteers at Delhi’s gurudwara Sis Ganj and 6 other places in Delhi. They take care of medical needs of the homeless with a team of 300 volunteers, that’s a front page story in The Tribune.