Mulayam’s snoop bomb A DANGEROUS REVELATION THE MYSTERIOUS FILE SWEET REVENGE
SNOOPING IS in the air, it seems. After corporate espionage and snooping on Rahul Gandhi, it is Mulayam Singh Yadav who has dropped another snoop bomb.
At a recent party function, the Samajwadi patriarch claimed that his own party leaders were spying on him.
“I have full information that some of my own people are spying on me. They keep a record of who is meeting me and what we are talking about. They think that I am not aware of it but they are wrong,” he said, leaving almost the entire party stunned. Though there has been complete silence on the issue after Mr Yadav’s statement, the corridors of power are buzzing with speculations.
Various names of possible “snoopers” are doing the rounds and close aides of Mr Yadav insist that the veteran leader never speaks without a reason.
Partymen are now waiting with bated breath to see when and where the axe falls. Till then, the rumour mill is working overtime. FORMER BIHAR chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is nursing a broken heart after his failed attempt to seize power in Bihar. While he is bound to give vituperative speeches against his arch-rival, Nitish Kumar, he is often seen talking about a “mysterious file”. Mr Manjhi alleges that Mr Kumar uses a “file”, which contains some of the wrongdoings of Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary. And Mr Kumar dangles this file to force the Speaker to get illegal orders passed. During the 1989 campaign, V.P. Singh used to pull a chit from his pocket claiming it had Swiss bank account numbers of senior leaders. However, he never revealed its contents. Likewise, Mr Manjhi did not say anything further about this so-called mysterious file, but his allegation has led to restlessness in the JD(U). And the silence of Mr Choudhary and Mr Kumar on this allegation is increasing the uneasiness. SEETHING IN anger for his non-induction in the state council of ministers, veteran BJD leader Suryanarayan Patro was waiting for an opportune moment to embarrass the Naveen Patnaik government. And the moment came on March 26, when he joined hands with the Opposition Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party and censured the power tariff hike which he said would hit hard the common people as well as farmers.
“The farm sector should have been spared and instead burden could have been transferred to industries. During demand discussions in the Assembly two days ago, the state energy minister (Pranab Prakash Das) did not talk about the hike. Either he was kept in the dark or he deliberately concealed it,” said Mr Patro, giving the Opposition a shot in the arm. The Opposition stalled the Assembly consecutively for three days over the issue.
Left in the lurch, the BJD immediately jumped into the face-saving mode.
Although the party spokesperson Amar Prasad Satpathy said Mr Patro’s comment was his own and had nothing to do with the party line, he nevertheless added that the government was making its mind to consider the demand for rollback of power tariff hike.
When the scribes drew the attention of Mr Patro to his party spokesperson’s reaction, the crafty politician who was minister for over 13 years, just grinned with a posture that suggested he had won a strategic battle and taken sweet revenge of his humiliation.