Lok Sabha elections in the third week of April !

If Election Commission sources are to be believed Lok Sabha polls will be held in the third week of April.

BJP to get less than 180 seats !

In the ensuing Lok Sabha polls the Bhartiya Janata Party will get between 150 and 170 seats.

Congress to get less than 100 seats

There are indications that under the present scenerio the Congress party will not get more than 100 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.

Congress to get 130 seats in case ---?

Congress party will get about 130 seats in case Priyanka Gandhi Vadera jumps into the election fray.

Naidu and Mulayam to support NDA !

One should not be surprised if Mulayam Singh Yadav like Chandra Babu Naidu supports the NDA.

Rebirth of Narasimha Rao ?

There is going to be rebirth of former Prime Minister P V Narsimha Rao in the Congress Party.Leaders like Sharad Pawar, V C Shukla, J B Patnaik, S B Chavan, Jafar Sheriff,Bhajan Lal, K Karunakaran,N K P Salve, Vasant Sathe, M S Bitta,Jagdish Tytler,P Chidambaram and some loyalists of Sonia Gandhi are reported to have started rallying round the former Prime Minister.

Old Guards to get importance in Congress

Old guards like Arjun Singh,Man Mohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, K Karunakaran,Natwar Singh and a few otheres are likely to get importance in the party organization.

Will Gehlot and Digvijay Singh contest Lok Sabha polls ?

Congress High Command may ask Ashok Gehlot and Digvijay Singh to contest Lok Sabha elections.

Varun Gandhi and BJP

The BJP leaders are in touch with Varun Gandhi.They want to project Varun as the real heir to the Nehru-Gandhi family.They would discredit Priyanka Gandhi as half Indian.

Will Advaniji be Prime Minister ?

In case the BJP gets over 200 seats Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani is going to be the Prime Minister.Chandra Babu Naidu has no objection this time .

George to be the key player

Defence Minister George Fernandese is going to be the key player in the elections. He is said to be in a position to provide funds to the candidates.

IAS changes in Madhya Pradesh

Shashi Jain will be Chairperson of the Board of Secondary Education. Mrs Anita Das has been appointed Resident Commissioner Madhya Pradesh in Delhi.Rakesh Bansal has been made MD Tourism Development Corporation. Dr A N Asthana will now be Principal Secretary Water Resources. PS GAD Ranjana Chaudhry has been shifted to Medical Education Department.O P Rawat has been made Excise Commissioner.Lovleen Kackkar has been made Secretary Social Welfare,Aruna Sharma will now be Secretary GAD.Iqbal Singh Bains has been appointed MD OilFed.Other changes are as under :-Mssrs S S Uppal Secretary Human Rights Commission, V G Dharmadhikari Registrar Cooperative Societies,A N Tiwari Secretary Panchayat and RD, Pravir Krishna Director Academy of Administration, Bhupal Singh Additional Secretary Bhopal Gas Relief,R R Gangarekar Additional Secretary Home,Sandip Saxena Collector Damoh,Pankaj Rag MD Civil Supplies Corporation,V S Niranjan Additional Secretary Forests,S K Ved Secretary PSC Indore, S C Mishra Deputy Secretary Raj Bhawan,Pradip Khare Additional Commissioner Excise,Raghubir Shrivastava Deputy Secretary Mining,Aniruddha Mukherjee Deputy Secretary Dairy Development,Dipti Gaur Mukherjee Director Savings , Manish Rastogi Director Public Grievances,Dipali Rastogi Deputy Secretary PWD, D D Agrawal Collector Betul,Manish Singh Collector Anooppur,R K Singh Collector Shehdol,Shobhit Jain SDO Jaora and Ramesh Thete Dy Secretary Mantralaya.

IPS changes in Madhya Pradesh

C V Muni raju will be DIG SAF Jabalpur.B B Sharma Pawan Shrivastava and Manish Shankar Sharma will be new SPs of Rajgarh,Shehdol and Khandwa respectively.G P Uike and G Akheto Sema have been shifted to the PHQ. S k Sharma will be SP Satna.K P Khare has been made SP Sagar.R D Mahore has been appointed SP Umaria.L L Ahi rwar has been moved to the PHQ.Mayank Jain will now be SP Sidhi. J P Ahirwar has been made SP Anooppur. J S Sanswal has been appointed SP Raisen.Umesh Joga will be SP Jhabua.

IAS reshuffle in UP

Aradhana Shukla will be new DM of Lucknow.Anil Kumar has been made Additional RC Delhi,Sunanda Prasad has been appointed MD Finance Corporation Kanpur.Hari Om Lavania will be MD of public Enterprises .

IPS changes in UP

B B Bakshi will be SP Railways Jhansi.Jaqi Ahmad has been posted as SP Banda. G K Goswami has been made SSP Muradabad.

1988 batch IAS gets super time scale in UP

eleven 1988 batch IAS officers have been given super-time scale in Uttar Pradesh. They are Mssrs Dr Rajneesh Dubey,Navneet Kumar Sehgal,Jyotika Patankar,Arvind Kumar,Deepak Krishna Verma,Hariom Kumar Lavania,Shri Ram Yadav,Ms S Radha Chauhan,B D Singh,Rajan Shukla and Anil Sant .

WHISPERS ---- CORPORATE WORLD :--

Business Houses are worried

Top business houses are in a dilemma this time.Their first priority is of course the BJP.

Top executives to join Bharti

Deepak Mehrotra has joined Bharti as CEO of Karnataka Circle. Vijay Sampath is the new Corporate Director Bharti.Vivek Bali has joined Airtel as Senior Vice President.Sunil Tandan has also joined Airtel as Senior Vice President.

Raha wins award

CMD of ONGC Subir Raha has won the prestigious SCOPE award for excellence for the year 2002-03.