| Aditi Phadnis: Crown of thorns | 14-NOV-09 |
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| The class most sensitive to the political barometer — who’s up and who’s down in politics — is the bureaucracy. So it was with pity, and just a little bit of satisfaction too, that the Haryana bureaucracy watched as Chief Minister (CM) Bhupinder Singh Hooda did something he had never done before. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Sushma's swaraj | 31-OCT-09 |
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| The BJP is to have a new president by the end of the year. The RSS has already said that it proposes to take the BJP in hand by seconding more lieutenants to the organisation and by ensuring that the BJP has a president whose overall handlers are the RSS. Accordingly, any one of the three Marathi speakers in the BJP leadership could become the party’s next president — Maharshtra BJP President Nitin Gadkari, Goa leader Manohar Parrikar and BJP Vice-President Bal Apte. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Cash and carry CM | 17-OCT-09 |
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| Just before results began coming in for the six assembly elections in 2005, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) voiced an interesting thought. It was suggested that while the PM was concerned about the outcome of the Bihar, Haryana and other elections, his primary worry was over a state that seemed the least important at the time. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Nitish's clouded clout | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Former Revenue and Rural Development Secretary D Bandyopadhyay handed over his seminal work — a report on land reform in Bihar — to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in July. Accepting the copy, the chief minister said in colloquial Hindi: “Mr Bandyopadhyay, if you steal Rs 5,00,000, no one will say a word to you. But if you steal another man’s wife or his land, they will be ready to murder you”. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Don't fear, I'm here | 19-SEP-09 |
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Kalmadi’s convinced infrastructure for the Games will be ready in time
If you’re worried like millions of other Indians that India won’t be able to get the necessary infrastructure ready in time for the Commonwealth Games, that the high jump event might have to be held in the open on the sand by the banks of the Yamuna and that traffic jams (because the roads won’t be ready) will not permit the shooting teams to reach the shooting ranges in time, thus possibly even |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Son-rise in Andhra? | 05-SEP-09 |
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| It is now almost certain that Jaganmohan Reddy, the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s 30-something son who is currently representing Kadapa in the Lok Sabha will succeed his father as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. Caretaker Chief Minister and Finance Minister K Rosaiah has said he would not like to continue as CM and. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Fired and brimstone | 22-AUG-09 |
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| Ahead of cabinet reshuffles in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, a group of five used to take all the important decisions: Atal Behari Vajpayee (now virtually bedridden), George Fernandes (ditto), Pramod Mahajan (dead), Jaswant Singh (expelled) and L K Advani. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: The politics of caste | 08-AUG-09 |
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| A few journalists met Buta Singh, Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, about two years ago, when the issue of reservation of jobs in the private sector was at its peak — should the private sector be forced to reserve jobs for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and if a statutory arrangement including a constitutional amendment needs to be moved for this purpose. |
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