Exasperated with Law Minister Ashwani Kumar’s style of working and stubborn nature, Uday Lalit has also refused to become the additional solicitor general and told the law minister, “Sir, we won’t get along.” What happened to the solicitor General Rohinton Nariman and later Haren Rawal is for anyone to see. Nariman had a showdown with Ashwani Kumar regarding the Jagan Mohan Reddy matter. Ashwani wanted to send Nariman to Hyderabad with an order saying, “You know I am your appointing authority.” Angry with Ashwani pulling rank like that, Nariman wrote down his resignation on a plain piece of paper and said, “Now you are not my appointing authority.” So now Ashwani Kumar is on the lookout for an additional solicitor general.

Bursting the bubble of unfettered ambitions of Delhi’s state party chief Vijay Goyal, BJP President Rajnath Singh has made it clear that it is not necessary that only the state party chief is the candidate for the chief minister’s post. Rajnath has made it clear to Goyal that he should not imagine that he will be the BJP’s candidate for chief minister from Delhi. There are several names in the fray. For instance, Harshvardhan, Smriti Irani and so on.

A few days ago, the BJO was holding a meeting at the Parliament Annexe and was being attended by Bhikhubhai Dalsania, who is Gujarat’s BJP secretary and is also considered to be close to Modi. During the tea-break, Dalsania was making a point to BJP’s newly-appointed National Secretary Amit Shah rather loudly. President of BJP in West Bengal Rahul Sinha stopped near them for a moment and praised Dalsania saying Modi was making headlines everywhere. In relation to the same, Dalsania gave an important tip to Rahul Sinha, “You can become famous too, provided you make the right connections with the industrialists in Kolkata and get their money pumped into media.” For a second, Sinha didn’t know how to react.

A prominent member at the IB has a big role to play in the phone tapping case of Opposition leaders and its allies. His father is the governor of a north-eastern state, and the official is considered to be close to 10, Janpath, and among those few who are close to Sonia and Priyanka Gandhi. It is being said that it was on his orders that phones of Jaitley and his son Rohan, his two drivers, Nitin Gadkari, his personal secretary Vaibhav Dangey, Sitaram Yechury, Vijay Goyal and 15 others were tapped. Now no matter if the government says that it had no knowledge of it, does it really hold water?

Rajnath Singh may announce his new team in the next three-four days. Sources reveal that a crucial meeting about the new team is to take place on March 3 and 4, between Ramlal, Gadkari and Rajnath. It is believed that the names will be finalised by March 4, and then the list will be shown as mark of tradition and courtesy to Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Narendra Modi, Murli Manohar Joshi, Venkaiah Naidu and Anant Kumar. After getting their consent on the new teams, Rajanth Singh will make the formal announcement about the new team in the next couple of days.

The Congress and the NCP are not particularly pleased with the closeness that has developed between the BJP and Raj Thackeray. A few days ago, during Gautam Adani’s son’s wedding in Goa, Raj Thackeray was seen deep in conversation with Nitin Gadkari and Narendra Modi. They were getting along pretty thick. And because Maharashtra Assembly elections are round the corner, Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray are deep into organising rallies in the state. A few days ago, Uddav’s rallies were held in Jalna, and Raj’s rallies were held in Solapur, Kolhapur and Konkan. A large number of youth was seen in Raj’s gatherings, and instead of north Indians, he has started to directly target the NCP and its ministers. Raj’s media management also comes as a surprise to the state’s ruling parties. That is why neither the Congress nor the NCP want Raj and BJP’s closeness to increase at any cost.

As Lok Sabha elections draw closer, the DMK is gearing up to cash in on the sympathy factor in Tamil Nadu. Ever since the news of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers getting capital punishment has gained ground, the opposition voices of the DMK have also increased their volume. And this is when India itself had given all strategic and intelligence knowledge to Sri Lanka when the LTTE was razed to the ground. It is worth mentioning that the DMK was in power in Tamil Nadu when that had happened. It is also worth mentioning that before the operation was carried out, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had gone to meet Nalini in prison and had clearly put the question before her, “Why did you do it and on whose bidding?” Nalini had then shared the entire details with her. And during the conversation, LTTE’s role in Rajiv Gandhi’s death came out clearly, and only then did India gave the green signal to bring down LTTE.

While the Congress-led UPA government’s flights of fancy were cut short due to the Hyderabad bomb blasts, and the big mouthed home minister’s words brought back pain for the nation, the blood of innocents only screamed aloud saying, “Shinde sahib, terror has no colour, not saffron or green. The motive of terror is only one – that to terrorise.” Working under the keen vigilance of the home minister, where were the eyes of investigative agencies when the wires of CCTV cameras at the blast site were cut four days before the blast and the agencies had no idea about it? Which means the Indian Mujahideen was working while our agencies were sleeping. There was not even a need to find out why the wires to the CCTV cameras had been cut.
It is common knowledge that bombs made by the IM contain ammonium nitrate and use timers, and the terrorist group targets the blast at about 6-7 pm in the evening. Also, the group targets those cities and places that it has recced in advance, which means there is more chance of the blast recurring in places where the blast has taken place before, too. It becomes imperative to ask the question why the agencies didn’t take these threats and information more seriously. Just four days below the blast the wires to the CCTV cameras is cut and no one knows about it. This indicates clearly that there was no one monitoring the cameras. So when there is no one keeping an eye on the security of the general public, the common man’s life is only in God’s hands.

A case has been registered in the Women’s Commission against Akhilesh’s UP government’s rural industry minister Rajaram Pandey. And for the fact that he went out of his way to praise the womanly grace and beauty of DM K Dhanalakshmi. Mr minister, who is from the Sultanpur constituency, started one of his speeches praising the district magistrate’s voice, beauty and her figure. The minister also didn’t forget to mention that the DM before her, Kamini Ratan Chauhan, was a stunning beauty as well. This matter is not just about UP. Even in Bihar, one of the IAS officers of the 2008 batch is popular for her beauty and fearless nature. So much so that she is referred to as Lady Singham in Bihar. The state’s vice-chief minister Sushil Modi is the first one to come to her defence and keep meeting her on the pretext of helping her solve cases. “Madam is new on the job and doesn’t know too much yet,” he says. But the public knows everything.

The coming Budget session is going to be dedicated to women’s empowerment. While there will be serious discussions on women’s safety in the session, there will also be added stress on making more strict laws for the same.