Sonia stops relying on outsiders ?

The Congress President Ms. Sonia Gandhi, it seems, has of late stopped relying on anyone from outside her own family. Much said and heard about some caucus around her too seems to have evaporated in the thin air. And the only bare fact which remains a reality is that if she has any advisors, they are no other than her own children - Rahul and Priyanka. These days , only these two have say in the decisions taken by her, it is said.

IAS reshuffle in Delhi Government

P K Tripathi will be new Principal Secretary Finance.Rakesh Mohan has been appointed CEO of the Delhi Jal Board.K S Mehra has been made Principal Secretary PWD.R K Shrivastava will be Secretary Public Grievances Commission.Jitendra Prasad has been made Director Social Welfare.Gyanendra Srivastava has been moved to Tihar Jail as Additional DG.

Dheeraj Mathur goes on study leave

Dheeraj Mathur Secretary Energy in Madhya Pradesh Government has proceeded on five years study leave to the US.He is 1983 batch IAS officer.

Lal and Gupta promoted to DG Rank

Two 1969 batch IPS officers Purshottam Lal and R K Gupta have been promoted to the rank of DG in Punjab.Lal will be DG Lokpal while Gupta has been made DG Home Guards.

IAS and IPS reshuffle in Orissa

A major IAS and IPS reshuffle is expected to take place in Orissa in a couple of weeks.

Samant to be promoted

D C Samant is being promoted to the rank of ACS. He is 1972 batch IAS officer posted in Rajasthan.

IPS turned Minister in a dilemma !

Good news for the retired IPS Rustam Singh now Minister in Madhya Pradesh is that he is going to be awarded with President's medal on the coming Independence Day but at the same time he is learnt to be in a dilemma over whether to receive the same in uniform or without it.

Will Jharkhand Chief Secretary go?

Grapevine has it that Jharkhand Chief Secretary, Ms Laxmi Singh, is being changed. Only the Chief Minister and the Chief Secretary know the reason.

Director level vacancies in Food Processing

Two Director level vacancies are taking place in the Department of Food Processing in Government of India.

Suspension to continue

The suspension of at least three IAS officers of Bihar, as expected, is not being revoked. At a review meeting held recently, it has been decided that there is no point in revoking the suspension of the officers in question. The officers in question are Anil Kumar Mahajan, Laxmikant and SN Dubey.

Das is Chairman of ASEB

S C Das has taken over as Chairman of the Assam State Electricity Board. He is 1981 batch IAS officer.

Is Rajasthan CM that inaccessible ?

Is Rajsthan Chief Minister Ms Vasundhara Raje Scindia inaccessible? Even the people of the rank of Principal secretaries, believe it or not, are finding it hard to seek an appointment with her.

Singh and Kumar gets additional charge

DG ITBP K J Singh and DG SSB Himanshu Kumar have been given additional charge of the BPR&D and Civil Defence respectively.

IAS changes in Haryana

Shyamal Mishra has been appointed Administrator of Haryana Urban Development Authority,Panchkula.Amit Kumar Agrawal will be Assistant Commissioner Gudgaon.Ajit Balaji Joshi has been made Assistant Commissioner Panipat.

IPS changes in Punjab

Two 1977 batch IPS officers J P Virdi and Jyoti Trehan have been promoted to the rank of ADG.Virdi will now be ADG Jails.Trehan has been moved to the EOW as ADG.Shashikant will now be ADG Security.P M Das has been appointed IG Ferozpur Zone.

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Sonia has okayed Congress's pact with NCP for the upcoming Maharashtra elections…….NCP will have to 'lump it' in this pact!!!! NCP…. Now Congress's Pet!!!!

In Bihar Paswan and Laloo are trying their best to have their individual names on the relief being given to the flood affected!!! At least in this one upmanship the relief is reaching the affected…..had these floods come when there was no impending election, the affected would have not even got a whiff of the relief ……Biharis would have then been moaning…Humme toh loot liya Laloo aur oos ke saalo ne!!!!

Amrinder has now revived the HPCL Bathinda Refinery Project ………when NDA was in power Amrinder was dead against this Project…but now with a Congress Government in the centre Amrinder has changed his stance…malai daa maamla hai (a case of Malai)…all of a sudden the projected figures have started looking pro Punjab and Mani Shanker Aiyer could not agree more!!! The Project was and is good and with Pakistan mulling buying Diesel from India this Project becomes even more viable.

Get ready for strikes…….Commie Trade Unions are now planning to go on strike one by one. They sure would do us a favour if they did it collectively…..one day and get over with the sham!!!!

Commies are also changing with times……now the Commie Headquarter is air conditioned……air fresheners are also being used to remove the musty smell that is a by-product of Communism!!! Maybe very soon Coke and Pepsi dispensing machines may also be introduced…….Hardcore Communists will be singing in front of Stalin's and Lenin's photograph…..Dekho aap ki communism ki haalat kya ho gayi Sahibaan, comfort (dil maange more) ke chakar mein Communism ho gayi kurbaan… Lal Salaam!!!!

Chidambram is preparing his case for FDI. With Commies and NDA on one wavelength on this issue he is trying to break the unison. He was first planning to speak to Arun Shourie but after Arun Shourie's articles in the Indian Express literally termed his Budget as 'khokla' , he has decided not to do so….now for PC he is Shooo..rie!!!! Confucious says , 'Journalist turned poltician turned Journalist and Politician turned Journalist turned Poltician …….their roads will cross time and again'.

Room allotments in the Congress Headquarter are causing celebrations and heart burn!!!!! Digvijay Singh leads the celebrators and Salmaan Kurshid the moaners!!!! Salmaan Kurshid and Jairam Ramesh ran the Congress electoral campaign from Ramesh's house……..both seem to be sidelined…. they ran a low key campaign and have been given low key responsibilities…every action has an equal and opposite reaction!!!! Also because High Command has reralized that it was not the Sonia factor or Congress's revival that won the election…the win was because of the self goal scored by NDA!!!!

Janardhan Dwivedi's rise is also causing heartburn…take his name in front of Fotedar and Fotedar practically starts foaming in the mouth. Manmohan Singh and now Dwivedi have been handpicked by Sonia….some time back both of them had been handpicked by Narsimha Rao, when he was PM…..does this mean that very soon the nattily dressed M.S. Bitta would be also making a comeback????? However Rao continues to be on 10 Janpath's black list!!!

Hulka Fulka…..Milkha Singh is angry again!!! This is a seasonal affair with him……for a man who did nothing for Indian sport, except promote himself he sure talks a lot……the hallmark of a Sportsman is a protégé or protégés …… passes on the torch…in Milkha Singh's case he has used Fevicol on his hand that holds his torch!!!!

Some say Tendulkar is our Superman…..but , when you realize the number of times Rahul Dravid has saved India then Dravid becomes Superman….he says his krypton is our adulation…..and he has an unending supply of it!!!

Amar Singh is very fond of Hindi songs…his favourite nowadays is…..Gardhish mein ho taare na ghabrana pyaare, sabar kar le pyaare wapas aayenge sunhere din tumhaare.

B Kumar

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Mukherjee is new Director HRD AI

S Mukherjee has been appointed new Director HRD in the Air India in place of Jitendra Bhargava.

Reliance to face competition

Reliance is all set to face a stiff competition from Bharati Enterprises in Bihar in the days to come. Reason; Bharati's Air Tel is also going to enter the telecom services in the state.

Post of MD GIC to go

The post of Managing Direcor of General Insurance Corporation will not be filled. P B Ramanujam MD of the GIC retired only last month.