Roomsharing for babus

The upcoming three-day “Chintan Shivir”, organised by the BJP government in Haryana, has thrown a peculiar situation for the officials. The “shivir”, which is being held at upscale Timber Trail Resort near Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh, will see IAS

officers sharing rooms for two nights. The sharing has been planned keeping in view the high tariffs and availability of rooms at the resort. While many are not comfortable with the room sharing idea, there is nothing much they can do. lakh jolted the state government in Haryana last week. Though action was taken against the hospital, the state unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was not satisfied. It expressed surprise why hospital licence was not cancelled. The party leaders have threatened to gherao health minister Anil Vij’s residence if the government does not cancel the licence in a week’s time. best with journalists during his recent rally in Rohtak, which was attended by Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar and Congress Legislature Party leader Kiran Choudhry. When a journalist started taking photo of empty chairs at the rally, a miffed Batra shouted at him from the dais: “You didn’t click the photo when people were sitting here. Now that they have got up to have food, you have taken out your camera”. Another journalist who was laughing at this incident became Batra’s next target. “I will check your write-up and ensure no mention is made of empty chairs,” the Congress leader shouted, leaving a thousand-strong crowd in splits.