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Bachchans only care for their interests

By Nora Chopra

From being a Congress MP to socialist ambassador of Samajwadi Party, Amitabh Bachchan is now brand Ambassador of the Narendra Modi‘s Gujarat. His son is brand ambassador of Madhya Pradesh, again a BJP ruled state. The BJP has carried his photograph in its vision document. His wife Jaya Bachchan is likely to be renominated to Rajya Sabha by Mulayam Singh Yadav. Mulayam Singh has given her the word. In return she would campaign for the SP in UP.

Ajay Maken scared of Arun Jaitley

The Union sports minister Ajay Makan is a worried man these days. And guess who is he scared of? Makan is extremely scared of the possibility of Arun Jaitley contesting from his New Delhi parliamentary seat which elected him MP in 2009. Makan has been heard asking journalists to find out from where Jaitley would contest. If Jaitley was to contest from his New Delhi seat then he would start looking for a new seat.

BJP depending on BSP for Uttarkhand

Mayawati is confident that no party can form the government in Uttarakhand without the BSP support. She has fielded 70 candidates in all seventy seats out of which she has fielded 38 in the plains and 32 in the hills. 15 candidates are Muslims. Most of her candidates are Congress rebels Her supporters claim that her rally in the Lithi Press grounds which has a capacity of about 40000 was jam packed, while at Sonia ‘s rally ,the gathering was not even half . But the BJP leadership is claiming that even if it fails to get a majority, it will form the government in the hill state. It is banking on the BSP candidates with whom the BJP has already struck a deal. According to BJP sources, the party is in touch with the BSP candidates whose elections they claim to have funded. Once they win they will cross over to the BJP to help them form the government

Hectic race is on for Bihar PCC chief

The Bihar Pradesh Congress is set for a change of leadership Rahul Gandhi is expected to focus his attention after UP polls on Bihar in the party’s bid to capture power in 2014 .The Congress has already sounded a hunt for Mehboob Ali Kaiser‘s successor. Hectic lobbying is on. Kaiser is under fire for making newcomers the PCC delegates. Among those in the race are the former PCC chiefs Anil Sharma, Shakeel Ahmad Shakeeluzaman Ansari and Ashok Ram. After experimenting all kinds of castes, the party is likely to fall back upon its old trusted card of a young upper caste face. But the party is assessing the ramification of replacing a Muslim with other castes that can further push the Muslims back to Nitish or Laloo. Among the Muslim contenders, Shakeel Ahmad is not willing to go back to Patna, Shakeeluzaman Ansari is well ensconced in his OBC Commission with MOS rank, Ashok Ram lost his own election. The party is once again thinking of sending Anil Sharma. He is being backed by Vincent George

Ram Mandir is still hot issue with BJP

Ram Mandir may not be their issue but the Hindutva agenda will continue to dominate the BJP’s poll campaign. To counter the Congress on its Muslim OBC quota ,the BJP has decided to organise Ambedkar maha artis all over UP and Uttarakhand to highlight how the Congress has violated the Constitution showing dishonour to Ambedkar, the maker of Indian constitution. The BJP vision document has promised to ban cow slaughter in UP and establish welfare and development commission for the bovine family in Uttarakhand and UP. They plan to link the cow with the rural village psyche. The vision document has promised to put cattle rearing, water forest and land in the school curriculum of rural areas. The thinking in the party is the cow can be a unifying factor in the Hindu voting segments cutting across the caste factor. Uma Bharati’s launch in UP may be seen as Lodh OBC projection but the fact is that she is identified with the Ram temple movement that was launched to counter the impact of the Mandal recommendations.

NCPSL body is full of Sibal’s men

Kapil Sibal, the HRD minister is under attack for reducing the National Council for the Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL) into a political club. NCPSL was established by the then HRD minister Madhav Rao Scindia to promote the Sindhi literature, art culture and language in 1994 but it has become captive of political hegemony right from its inception. Though he came from the RSS background but its first Vice chairman was Murli Dhar Jaitley a literary figure appointed by the Congress minister. But all VCs appointed thereafter were all political puppets of the regime in power and the HRD minister in the seat. K R Malkani succeeded Jaitley in M M Joshi regime. His successor Jamatlal Wadhwani was the President of an RSS organization Bharatiya Sidhu Sabha. Suresh Keswani who became its President during the Congress regime was a Congress MP. Arjun Singh appointed a lawyer Ram Panjwani and the latest President Ramesh Varleyani, a Motilal Vora acolyte and general secretary of the Congress in Chhattisgarh.

Kulkarni back to BJP as Gadkari’s adviser

After doing all kinds of experiments with politics, Sudheendra Kulkarni is back to where he belongs. Kulkarni is the BJP President Nitin Gadkari’s new adviser. After he returned from his cash for votes adventure in jail, he has once again been accommodated in the BJP. He joined in the last leg of L K Advani’s anti graft yatra and later Gadkari took him on as his adviser to assist his political and ideological adviser Vinay Sahasrbuddhe. Kulkarni has been given a room in 11 Ashok Road. BJP Headquarters. Kulkarni who prepared Advani‘s vision document of 2009 has also helped Gadkari in his vision document on UP. The document has been given final touches by Kulkarni. But what is surprising is the fact that Kulkarni is equally close to UPA ally the West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. He was taken in by her on expert committee on Railways when she was the railway minister. After she became CM the committee ceased to exist because the chairman of the committee Amit Mitra became a Minister in Bengal. But Kulkarni continues to advise Banerjee. He was one of her fund raisers not only during the West Bengal assembly polls but right from the her post Congress NDA days Kulkarni is the BJP link with Mamata. (IPA)

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