RAVEEN THUKRAL: CM’S GATEKEEPER FOR MEDIA

A former journalist who enjoyed close proximity to Amarinder in his earlier stint as the CM and later Punjab Congress chief while working in different publications, Raveen knows the art of keeping the “right company” and the right timing. He joined the chief minister’s poll campaign, four months before last year’s elections, and still landed the plum job. He now shadows the CM in all official and political events. His presence in meetings ruffles many feathers, in the party, the government and the bureaucracy, including Suresh Kumar. He decides who in the media has access to the CM and who needs to be ‘blocked’, something he loves to flaunt.