Is Delhi indeed within grasping distance for Vijay Goyal? If sources are to be believed, Goyal has gradually got prominent party leaders on his side. In the changed political scenario, BJP President Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Ramlal are now up in Goyal’s support. On the other hand, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitely who are opposing Goyal, haven’t changed their mind.

The Congress is going to come out with a big plan regarding reservation for Jats. The UPA government at the Centre, led by the Congress, has made all preparations for reservations to the Jat community. If this strategy by the Congress works out, it is sure to get some political rewards in Rajasthan, Western UP and Haryana.

Amar Singh is returning to his form, slowly but surely. A few days ago, he revealed on a news channel how the Mercedes car that SP politician Naresh Agarwal travels around in is Subroto Roy’s car. Singh said that if the car Agarwal brings to the Parliament often has been transferred in his name, it is all right, otherwise it is illegal to have an SP’s sticker on someone else’s car. Naresh Agarwal’s words against Sebi recently are being connected with the recent Sahara fiasco.

The Congress high command is worried when it comes to Chattisgarh, where the Congress may give a stiff fight to the BJP in the oncoming elections. But the Congress high command has found out that the BJP chief minister in the state is funding several unhappy Congress leaders. These Congress leaders may sour the deal for the Congress in the next elections. Sources reveal that one of the unhappy Congress politicians is getting nothing less than Rs 35 lakh a month as financial help.

It is being said about a certain former chief minister from the BJP that she is sure to return to power in the elections this time. The government at the Centre is trying hard to look at her past record for aberrations. Sources reveal that three teams by the ED have been sent to London, Singapore and Vancouver for investigations. Investigative agencies claim that this woman politician at the time when she was the chief minister, formed benami trusts and has amassed large wealth in London, Singapore and Vancouver. The Congress-led government may discloser the entire matter just before the Assembly elections in the state.

Following the example of Rahul Gandhi, several other Congress politicians are now trying to polish their image. Sources reveal that several Congress ministers such as P Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal and Manish Tiwari are taking the help of different PR companies for the same. And after a dressing down from Rahul, the Congress ministers have also piped down a little and are thinking over their words before attacking the Opposition directly.

As a rule, Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah takes a flight to Delhi every Friday from Srinagar. Not even the sweltering heat in the capital can dissuade him. The state’s poor public gets no chance to meet the chief minister. Whatever the chief minister wants to say to its public, he tweets about it. No one knows about Omar’s programmes in Delhi – except that he is seen with a woman news anchor time and again.

Opposition parties, especially the Panther Party in Jammu and Kashmir, has been demanding Omar Abdullah to give an entire explanation of the expenditure made from the funds the Centre gives to the state and the special packages it is entitled to. That is because the Opposition parties suspect of a major scam there. But look at the coincidence: a fire starts in the Srinagar Secretariat all of a sudden and what gets burnt? All those files about the central aid – now that the evidence is gone, there will no way anyone can see what happens to all the money the state government gets from the assistance capital from the Centre.

The IB continues to remains upset with the CBI. The grievances have to do with the way it conducts its business, the political pressures it comes under and its working style, and the way one of its partner investigative agencies and how its top officers were interrogated. So now the IB is ready with a fitting reply. Dossiers have allegedly been made by the IB on several top executives at the CBI; these officials are those who are, in some way or the other, involved in corruption. Solid proof is being collected against these CBI officials. So strong, in fact, that they will not get a second chance to escape even through legal jargon.

This is possible the first time in the history of the country that a prominent officer of the IB is being interrogated about his work strategy and style, his spy network, how he identifies and tracks spies, how much money there is in secret fund and so on. If sources are to be believed, the entire information is being made to look like an affidavit, which may later be a part of legal proceedings. Can an investigative agency in any country face such a state of affairs?