BJP PROJECTING VARUN?
So was there a message of sorts in Indore as the sidewalks were covered with large posters, banners and hoardings of almost every BJP leader in the country. Varun Gandhi face was prominent as while Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K.Advani, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitely appeared together or separately at each street corner. Shivraj Singh Chouhan was there too. But the one leader missing from this galaxy of stars is Narendra Modi. Were various faces there deliberate? There are some people in the RSS who want to anoint Varun Gandhi as the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh President. The objections are from a couple of senior leaders from the BJP. They have an issue with Varun’s attitude. Rahul’s hardwork in Uttar Pradesh has put the party’s political think-tank in a spot of bother.
Some say that projecting Varun would consolidate Rahul Gandhi’s position for sure. For his part, Varun apparently has already started his “campaign” by badmouthing from Sharad Pawar to Mayawati to his own Gandhi clan. That’s fine for the BJP leaders as long as Varun does not target them. After all we are all familiar with Varun’s language and arrogance.
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STEPHENIANS IN TROUBLE
Shashi Tharoor is the third Stephenian after K.Natwar Singh and Mani Shankar Aiyar to get the boot from the Manmohan Singh government. Is it that the alumni of St. Stephen’s College do not gel with Team Manmohan for long? If that is the case, Tharoorgate is a warning sign for Virbhadra Singh, Salman Khurshid, Kapil Sibal, Jitin Prasad, RPN Singh, Sachin Pilot and Jyotiraditya Scindia all the Stephenians.
An SMS doing the rounds sums it up “Yeh tha Tharoor ka saroor, mit gaya uska guroor. Hona tha isteefa manzoor, magar yeh hai uske college ka kusoor.” (Tharoor was intoxicated by power. It has destroyed him. His resignation has to be accepted. His college is to be blamed.)
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LALU'S DILEMMA
The reality of his depleted numbers continues to creep up on RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav. This time the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections are giving him a headache. He can get only one candidate comfortably elected to the five seats falling vacant. Since the claimants are many, for a second seat, he has to depend on the Congress, which does not want to be seen hobnobbing with him ahead of the Assembly elections. His electoral partner LJP Chief Ram Vilas Paswan, with just 12 members in the assembly, is even worse off. Now the grapevine has it that Lalu is toying with the idea of urging Paswan to get the Congress to back him so that he can oblige a Muslim candidate as his party’s first choice. The danger, however, is that if Paswan is able to pull this off with the Congress, he may think he doesn’t need Lalu at all.
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