The BJP, Samajwadi Party, RJD and the BSP have joined hands and are now planning separate agitations against the price rise. While the Congress appears to be trying to put Pawar in the dock, the astute NCP leader has reached out to the SP and the RJD to insulate him against a Congress attack. While Mayawati has demanded the removal of Pawar. Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu are busy blaming the Centre. They all also have their own personal reasons too.
Lalu is miffed with Rahul Gandhi for dumping the Congress-RJD alliance in the state. He blames the faulty policies of the Congress, to the soaring prices. Mulayam Singh is indebted to Pawar for not admitting Amar Singh into the NCP. But even then Pawar’s woes are unlikely to end soon. Price rise is one of the main issues to be discussed at the Congress Working Committee meet scheduled for the first week of February. Some Congress fellows are lobbying to shift Pawar from the agriculture portfolio. Apart from agriculture and food, Pawar controls civil supplies, consumer affairs and public distribution.
Some want his portfolios to go the NDA way. Under the BJP-led NDA, food and consumer affairs formed separate ministries. Congress insiders, however, felt it would be difficult for the Prime Minister to clip Pawar’s portfolio as he is a key coalition partner. Any such move could spell trouble for the Congress-NCP Government in Maharashtra. The Congress is in a Catch 22 situation. It cannot touch Pawar and the aam admi are questioning the credentials of Manmohan Singh Government.
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Amar Singh celebrated his birthday along with his brothers Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Ambani. Not on a large scale though this year. No show of power, money or Bollywood. Maturity seems to be Amar’s formula now. No press too. But Amar’s birthday was not without controversy and Amar Singh of course loves controversies. Mulayam Singh has finally made up his mind about Amar Singh ouster from his party. Amar has challenged to fight from the Badaun parliamentary seat which is a sure win he thinks. The new spokesperson has asked Amar to resign from his Rajya Sabha seat. This suggestion obviously came into being in consultation with Mulayam Singh and family. All the other posts that Amar Singh had resigned of the Samajwadi party, Mohan Singh has stepped into them. May be Mohan Singh wants the Rajya Sabha too?
Amar Singh’s left the Samajwadi party claiming that his weak health does not go well with politics. They say there is much more to it than that meets the eye. Amar Singh is now working towards the mobilizing of Thakurs. With Sanjay Dutt also out now from Samajwadi party one is left wondering what will happen to the two Jaya’s in the Samajwadi party now. They were a part of the Amar Singh’s brigade and inseparable from Amar. Will they follow their leader and resign or in the coming days will Amar and Mulayam make up once again? Amar Singh does not have a choice of joining any other political party as nobody has opened their doors for him. Unfortunately as always other parties in U.P are trying to gain maximum from this in-house fight of the Samajwadi. Also now keeping in mind that there is now no one with witty sarcastic one liners that Amar was famous for to save his former boss Mulayam.
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Most political leaders talk less and work more. In the Congress it is better to be tight lipped and the new lot of politicians also believe in this formula. Any wrong word uttered out of your mouth could cost you your chair. But Shashi Tharoor is of course a class apart. He has made a name for himself by tweeting two much. Good or bad publicity is a must for a politician. Many serious Congress men like P.Chidambaram are not impressed by Tharoor and his tweeting habits. When Tharoor recently came into news after allegedly criticizing Jawaharlal Nehru’s foreign policy, someone asked
P. Chidambaram, “Do you tweet, sir?” Pat came the reply: “No, I bleat.” P. Chidambaram is of course a non - nonsense man. It is amazing that Shashi Tharoor has got into trouble time and again over his twittering but he never learns. Even after he was ticked off by the Congress President and the Prime Minister, he carries on unashamedly twittering away and putting himself and his party in the most embarrassing situations. He is either over confident of his position or doesn’t care about his senior’s advice. He has to learn some political acumen if he wants to survive for long and he better learn fast as his colleague’s patience is waring away. And the spokesmen of the party are fed up of covering up for him I am sure. They have many more serious issues to concentrate on.
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