KEEPING TABS ON THE POLITICAL GRAPEVINE

With the talk of organisational reshuffle in the Congress gaining momentum, many leaders have started making a beeline to party vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s trusted aide K Raju to push for their case. Many young leaders, including AICC secretaries, are aspiring to become general secretaries. There is also a buzz that many senior leaders will be sent to states to lend a helping hand to the party functionaries there. For his part, Raju has been taking the feedback of the young office-bearers from leaders and workers in states under their charge.

After getting a rebuke from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not being present in the two Houses of Parliament, BJP MPs have become quite alert. Last Friday, the parliamentarians were seen running towards the Lok Sabha when they saw the PM coming from the Rajya Sabha and walking towards the Lower House. The BJP MPs have a grouse against some ministers though. It was because of the absence of three ministers during the question hour in the Rajya Sabha that the PM had taken party parliamentarians to task.

Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had some uncomfortable moments when he landed at the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Parliament. No sooner did he enter that people jostled to take selfies with the chief minister. “This selfie-ria is a new disease in India,” Khattar quipped while posing for them.

About 40 MPs from the states of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh landed in New Delhi on Sunday evening on being told that prime minister Narendra Modi will meet them. Most of them had planned to reach on Monday but when it involved the Prime Minister, nobody took the risk. Upon arrival in Delhi, however, they were left disappointed as the meeting was re-scheduled. The next date given to them is March 29.