Hello and welcome. If you're watching ND TV, I'm VA Lead story. Well, the T MC versus Central Agency showed our intensifying in the run up to the polls. Well, the NI, a team which was attacked in West Bengal, has now has a complaint against it which has been registered by West Bengal police. This also has led and triggered a political slug fest between the T MC and the D JP. The T MC says the Central agency is acting at the behest of the B JP. The prime Minister in West Bengal meanwhile says the T MC wants a licence to terrorise agencies. Here's a report regarding this issue There is a strong allegation on behalf of trom Congress that this entire episode is constructed by NI a both NI A and BP. This is a result of a conspiracy done by made by Maruo Janata Party. And in a we want to mention a name that is Mr DR Singh sp N. I AD Ram Singh. Madam Muta of Energy has already told that some BJP leader went to that person that SP and handed over the names of Congress, the Congress alleging the NI a was acting on the behest of the BJP and picking up TR Congress, both leaders, after a BJP leader visited an NI a officer at his home even after the model code of conduct came into force. The tram Congress's National General Secretary Abhishek Banaji said it was an alliance between the NI A and the BJP that was orchestrating conspiracies against TR leaders amid the moral code of conduct. The tram is demanding an investigation into the role of the officer and is asking for his removal from Bengal immediately as he is involved in political games with the BJP. However, the BJP leader, the TR Congress mentioned, has denied the charges and threatened legal action against Kal Kosh, the Hamas J. The development came on a day when the BPA Nagar police registered a case under Section 154 of the Indian penal code against NI a officers on charges of assault of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty, the NI A on Sunday categorically denied any mall intention in its proper action. The central agency, in a pre added that its team came under an unprovoked violent attack and that it made the arrests following all legal procedures. A Congress delegation comprising of State Minister Chandra Bhat also visited the families of those arrested to ensure its ground level workers don't leave the field ahead of elections. And the prime minister and the Chief minister also faced off on the issue in a mo mo God my me Mati shop shop Zato PM T you get to LA I don't go in the to go a licence is T MC or T? MC Kanon or SAMANCO Party has a Sunday kime kahu ya the jai ba You put it this in AD eye H la Hey, the The Congress and the BJP have often faced off over the functioning of central agencies in the state of West Bengal. But the Bath Nagar incident has once again brought the sharp divisions on to the forefront, dragging the premier anti terror investigation agency into the political rhetoric ahead of elections. DNI is likely to challenge a case filed against its officers before a court, but it surely would have liked to avoid being dragged into the political debate over its functioning in the middle of elections in the state. In Kolkata, Saab, Gupta and the TV. It's that big showdown in West Bengal, which is an important catchment area for the B JP. But moving now to other news. Our special hot seat series and the constituency and focus is the Chennai central constituency. It is AD MK bastion, but what are the fault lines of the political realities here? My colleague Vera Rag reports Chennai's central Luksa constituency is as strong AD MK bastion as it gets even in the sea saw Dravidian battle between the a. ID, MK and DMK. This seat has been AD MK stronghold since the 19 seventies and a powerful modern family stronghold since 1996. Incumbent member of parliament Diane Marin's father, the late Mua Soli Maran, held it from 1996 and Diani took over in 2004 only once in 2014 did Maren lose the seat to the A. I AD NK. That's the only time the a ID MK has ever won. Chennai Central one. The election while the traditional rival on the ground is the a ID MK. Still, the DMK campaign for the 2024 looks about polls across the Mead and in Chennai Central is on a firm anti BJP, an anti Narendra Modi plank. They are so happy that the prime minister, Narendra Modi, is coming to Chennai. He is coming to Tam more often because the more he comes to visit Chennai or Ta Ta, margins increases because people just hate it. The drama, colour and noise of a Dravidian election campaign is in full blast to galvanise largely a socially and economically weaker section of the electorate. And in the midst, there are even Hindi announcements in this area, which is home to Chennai's marwari population. Even Panipuri gains currency over the idli. Taking on the DMK in the Dravidian Heartland isn't just about taking on one party. It's about taking on an alliance which has stood the test of time several small parties with small vote shares, which all conglomerate together under the DMK umbrella. That's the real challenge. Breaking that arithmetic. Apart from dealing with the DMK S chemistry, there are two forces challenging that DMK arithmetic and chemistry. One is the A I AD MK led alliance and the other, the BJP's alliance, will a three way fight weaken the anti DMK? Arithmetic is a question these elections will answer, but unfettered by their historically insignificant vote shares in this seat, B JP candidate Lino P Selvan is putting up a brave front against the DMK. Temperature is soaring in Chennai Central as this campaign winds its way through dinar. Can the BJP march into watchman traditional Dravidian territory without a traditional ally? That's perhaps the big question in these elections as the drumbeats and the noise and the fever check my the other one other. Does the BJP have traction in a city or a constituency like Chennai Central, which is seen as a, you know, a bastion of the DMK Maran family? As we all know, the only constant which we can ever find in this world is change. And the change is coming to this part of the world. Central Chennai. This election is going to unanimously vote in favour of Narendra Modi of the BJP. Because basically this particular constituency, though, is the heart of the city has been stagnant. It's been stagnated. The lives of the people have been stagnated over the last 3040 years. For the last 25 years, Mr Dan Iman and his father have been empty of this constituency But the poverty has not been alienated. The people have not been uplifted. Society is not performing late. Actor Vijay Khan's D MD K is contesting central Chennai as part of the A ID MK Alliance and its candidate Bath Sarathi is a former ML a while. The A I AD MK sees this election as one to reiterate its grassroot grips as one of the two principal pillars of Tamil art politics. For the D MD K, it's a battle for survival and relevance. Post the demise of its founder, actor Vijayan. Performance of Parthasarathy in Chennai Central would be a key indicator of whether the alliance is working at the grassroots and whether the traditional two leaves vote is being hi or in many ways the board chairs. And not just who wins or loses in seats like Chennai Central would indicate the future script in Dravidian politics in Chennai with Sam Daniel and for ND TV and from Tamil Nadu moving now to the Hindi Heartland state, the prime minister launched uh the BJ P's campaign in Madhya Pradesh with the Jabalpur Roadshow. This is his first rally after the model code of conduct kicked in in interesting optics this time. It was not Shivraj Singh Johan, of course, but the newly elected chief minister Mohan Yadav, accompanying the prime minister. This is an important tribal area, Uh, a tribal belt. In fact, the Mahak area, which has been the BJP's focus since the assembly elections. In other news now the police in Bella have seized five crore, 60 Lac Worth cash, three kilogrammes of gold, 100 and three kilogrammes of jewellery and 21 pieces of silver. A total value of seven crores, ₹6 lakh worth of gold and silver has also been seized. This operation was carried out by the police in Bela's Bruce Town, primarily involving money laundering. The money was found at the residence of Naresh, the owner of Hema Jews in the Kami bazaar area, and Naresh. The accused has been taken into custody and now a news that concerns all of us. Vista, one of India's only full service airlines, has decided to cut back 10% in its services. This after the pilot crisis, the ongoing pilot crisis for Vista. In fact, Vista has said that domestic networks will be, uh, uh you know, disrupted more or less and all those will be accommodated by the airline. My colleague Vishnu sh has more details. The decision of the management of Vista to scale back their operations by 25 to 30 flights every day. In other words, 10% of the capacity that they were operating comes at a time when pilots of the airline went had serious concerns about the rostering in the airline, which had resulted them to a point where even flight safety may have been jeopardised because they were exhausted. Pilots felt that the airline was expanding at a pace at which there was no buffer, which was actually available, and therefore it resulted in a crisis in the rostering of the airline as a result of which there were upwards of 50 flights cancelled on two days last week. Now that situation has been regularised somewhat. But as part of the decisions the airline is taking to make the airline easier upon, the pilots now decided to scale back their operations by up to 30 flights a day, or 10% of the capacity they were operating. This takes them back to the same level of flight operations as at the end of February 2024 and the airline says this will provide much needed resilience and buffer in the pilot rosters. Most of these are going to be affecting their domestic network of airline and much ahead of time to minimise inconvenience to customers. Also, those passengers who are affected are being put on to other flights as well as applicable is what the airline actually says at this stage. So these are what the management of the airline are looking at. The idea is to stabilise the number of flights that they are operating, so word of caution there for all with passengers. With that, we'll take a short break now, news continues on the other side. Welcome back. It's going to be a hot summer ahead. And Bengaluru is already feeling the heat. Uh, the city is facing, uh, temperatures that are the highest in April in the last eight years, a clear impact of climate change. My colleague Praha Rahman has this report. After railing under a severe water crisis, Bengaluru is under the grip of an unprecedented heat wave. With record breaking temperatures during the day and warmer than usual nights, the Met department has pointed to climate change, attributing them to deficient rainfall and drought, Only threatening to make the situation worse received a deficient. So this is, uh, one reason and second, then after that, also, the rain. There was no rain, uh, in, uh, Bangalore city that is in the winter winter season. Also, this is mainly due to the climate change, and another reason is iino conditions still is going up because there is no rain means the plantation will not be there. The city is is mostly and, uh, and due to that, the local locally there. Bangalore recorded 37.6 °C on April 6th. It is the third highest in the last 15 years. It is the highest in the last eight years. Ben has already recorded one of its hottest and driest days in the month of March and April, despite being the IT hub. With the city's lakes drying up, the city needs to invest much more in sustainable water management solutions. The state government has already issued warnings to its citizens to stay indoors and keep themselves hydrated past few years. Like when I was born till now, this is the hottest season ever, hottest year, which is bad. So can't we feel like Why do we come out for college in the sun? The only hope is there will be some respite in the form of summer showers expected around April 14th. Summers were always known to be a season that was famous for a sure short way of looking hot. But this time around people have been complaining of the record breaking temperatures and are waiting to get away from the scorching sun with camera Person Go Prati Rahman and Ben for ND TV. That's all the time that we have on the show from all of us here. Goodbye.
