By Nora Chopra
SHIVPAL YADAV GROOMING SON ADITYA TO CHALLENGE AKHILESH
As Shivpal Yadav has pitchforked his son Aditya to challenge his nephew Akhilesh Yadav., acrimony between the Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his chief minister son Akhilesh has risen to such heights that they have stopped talking to each other. Akhilesh supporters however blame his step mother Sadhna Gupta. She is alleged to be behind all that is happening in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family. The acrimony between the father and son has reached such a height that they are not even talking to each other. Unhappy and jealous over the discrimination of her son Prateek and his wife Aparna, Sadhna is alleged to be the cause behind the differences between Shivpal and Akhilesh resulting in the isolation of Akhilesh. Mulayam is said to have become a puppet in her hands and is dancing to her tune. After all it is his old age marriage said a senior party member who is supporting Akhilesh. She has put all her powers behind Shivpal against Akhilesh who she wants to see to be removed from the chief minister’s post and replaced by her son or daughter in law. Aware of Akhilesh’s popularity and scared of the possibility that such a move in haste can boomerang, she is now backing Shivpal and his son Aditya. Both Sadhna and Shivpal have pitchforked Aditya as a challenger to Akhilesh. These days, Aditya has started looking after the work of his father. It is he who first met people and then only Shivpal meets them. Shivpal is grooming him for the future.
K C TYAGI’S SON AMARISH GAVE ADVICE FOR DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGN
Socialist leader K C Tyagi, known for his anti America antecedents, was shocked to hear from his psephologist son Amarish Tyagi that he had gone to US to help Trump in his campaign. Amarish was invited by Alexander Nix, the CEO of the company Cambridge Analytica that is looking after the campaign of the Republican Party in US Presidential elections ., He was however put up in in Texas that houses their war room and is the headquarters of Donald Trump./. Amarish was invited to work there with the West Asians as also Non Resident Indians settled in US. The Indians in US are the third largest community in America only after the Chinese and the Philipinos. The NRIs constitute about 3.18 % of the US population as per the census of 2010. As per the report submitted to Matt Oczkowski, the head of the war room in Texas by Amarish, the Indans find themselves closer to Trump because of his anti Pakistan stance but his migration policy has worried the Indians. Amarish however told his father KC Tyagi not to be too shockd as his trip to US was only professional and had nothing to do with his ideology. And that his ideology remains the same as before.
ASHOK BHATI, THE NEW DALIT ICON AT NATIONAL LEVEL
Ashok Bharti is the new star n the dalit horizon. This is giving jitters to all the dalit leaders in the country including Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of Baba Saheb Ambedkar. Prakash Rao Ambedkar, the grandson of Baba Saheb Dr B R Ambedkar has recently been in news for his hectic action that he has been doing in North India. Recently, he organised a joint rally with Sitaram Yechury and Sudhakar Reddy, both being the top leaders of CPI(M) and CPI respectively. However, Prakash Ambedkar failed to mobilised his party men to Parliament Street Sit-In as he promised to the left leaders. Mr Ambedkar complained to one of the senior bureaucrats in present dispensation that his party has been hijacked by Ashok Bharti in Delhi. Ashok Bharti, a renowned Dalit face in Delhi told the left leaders that Prakash Ambedkar directed him in Mumbai in August that he need not mobilise his people for this left supported program and accordingly he sent the same message across to the people, resulting scanty presence of members of RPI.
SHEILA DIKSHIT LOOKING FOR SAFE SEAT FOR ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
Sheila Dikshit, the chief ministerial candidate of the Congress for Uttar Pradesh is still reluctant to go back to UP. She has yet not identified a safe constituency from where she wants to fight the assembly election. . Among the constituencies that have been identified for her are Kanpur Noida, Allahabad, Sheher buxi ka talaav in Lucknow, and Varanasi Cantt. Jitin Prasad is said to have offered her the brahmin and muslim dominated Maholi in Sitapur. It is supposed to be the safest seat for her. But she is more interested in the Sahibabad assembly segment which is populated with the east UP people. But the fact is that she wants to be spared from contesting. She wants only to campaign but there is pressure from within the rank and file that if the leader does not fight, what will the cadres do. (IPA)