Bric a Brac : Journos rush in…

CHHATTISGARH is a gold mine state of India. Name an industrial house and they are present in the state. So, the changed political scenario saw industrialists rushing to meet Rahul Gandhi. Bhupesh Baghel, five times MLA, aced the CM race over his competitor TS Singhdeo. Sources informed that a few journalists emerged as Baghel’s rescuer.

 

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By the way : Big brother is watching

WHEN Narendra Modi took over as the Prime Minister, bureaucrats were overjoyed. There was a visible loss in the popularity of the elected public representatives. In fact, department secretaries of different ministries started superseding the ministers and directly submitted their report to the PMO.

 

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By the way : IAS vs IPS in UP

confrontation has risen between IAS and IPS officers on the commissionerate system in UP Police. Following Governor Ram Naik’s strong pitch for a police commissioner in the state, supported by DGP OP Singh with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the UP IAS Association has decided to put up its points against the state government on this issue.

 

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Bric a Brac : A circus of sorts

HATEVER credibility Congress President Rahul Gandhi is building, his party leaders are demolishing the next day. Congress leaders are forgetting that one wrong word can change the whole narrative in the election year. Mani Shanker Aiyer questioned in a seminar, “Raja Dashrath was a big king, his palace had 10,000 rooms.

 

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By the way : Change of fortunes

WHEN Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh and Jyotiraditya Scindia were watching the Assembly poll results on television at the PCC office in Bhopal with baited breath–with each seat being fought bitterly till late into the night on December 11–just about two kilometres away, a senior IAS officer was fervently praying at his home in Char Imli for a Congress victory.

 

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By the way : Slip between the cup and the lip

ASHWANI Lohani, the former Chairman of the Railway Board, had a successful tenure, that ending on December 31. According to sources, he was on the verge of getting an extension, but luck played truant. Lohani, stickler for rules and protector of human resources of Railways, kept his minister Piyush Goyal on tenterhooks. He used to keep quiet in meetings whenever the minister used to summon the officials. As a result, big-ticket projects are waiting for the approval of the Railway Board.

 

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