'Orphaned' Chavan

Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan, the saying goes, and no one is discovering this better than Maharashtra's former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, who led the Congress in the recent Assembly elections. Many blame the party's humiliating showing in the elections on a scathing interview Chavan gave to The Telegraph newspaper of Kolkata on the culpability of many of his partymen and alliance politicians in a housing society scandal that saw him parachuted into the chief minister's post from the Centre. Now, the clamour for his head from senior leaders and party rank and file alike is growing by the day raising questions about when, not if, the party high command will take action. The buzz now is that some moves are expected after Diwali.