Mirch Masala

First India Sunday Special

BY TRIDIB RAMAN

The author is a journalist and political commentator and views expressed are his personal

IS SHARAD PAWAR PLAYING DOUBLE GAME YET AGAIN?

Sharad Pawar is an expert player of politics, but if ever he starts scoring goals in his own post, then understand that he has changed his allegiance. His eagerness to change faces has been clearly visible from his politics till now. So, when he has a closed-door meeting with Gautam Adani for about two hours, he assumes the posture of rejecting the JPC’s demand on the Adani episode. If sources are to be believed, he has had long conversations with the BJP top brass too. There are murmurs in the political circles that Pawar has a secret agreement with the BJP that Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule can become a minister at the center and his Nephew Ajit Pawar may be the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra in place of Shinde. But Ajit Pawar

CBI CAMP IN PATNA

8 hostels and 1 residential school to be opened in Raj

Students of tribal to receive benefits after these creations

Naresh Sharma started appearing in a different color. He removed the symbol of NCP from his Twitter handle and speculations started that now the time has come for him to bloom.

In fact, 16 MLAs of Eknath Shinde faction are still facing the threat of disqualification. This case is still pending in the court, so if these 16 MLAs of Shinde faction are disqualified by the court, then the Shinde government will come in minority, so BJP has placed a bet on Ajit Pawar under its backup plan. But it is famous about Sharad Pawar that he has expertise in playing two and a half moves on political chess. So he has tied his strings with the Congress as well. He wanted to come to Delhi and meet Rahul at 10 Janpath but Rahul asked him, “Why not have this meeting at Kharge’s residence.”

T he coming days may be difficult for Nitish Kumar who is working tirelessly day and night in the initiative of opposition unity. Ever since he broke the alliance with BJP and formed government with Lalu’s party, the Center is constantly eyeing Nitish. ED and CBI are continuously questioning RJD President and State Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav and the sword of arrest is also hanging on them. So, CBI is continuously increasing its resources for the complete siege of Nitish and Tejashwi. If reliable sources are to be believed, in recent days, CBI has taken more than 100 houses on lease in Patna, that means more and more CBI people are in Patna, and this aspect is also like an alarm bell for Nitish!

RAJNATH WILL NOT LEAVE LUCKNOW

R ecently, Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met Prime Minister Modi and shared his mind. Earlier, there were indications that Rajnath would not contest the 2024 elections as he would be 73 by next year, but it is said that Rajnath has expressed his wish to the PM that ‘he wants to contest the Lok Sabha election of 2024 from Lucknow seat only, i.e. the same seat and this will be his last election. In fact, Rajnath’s younger son Neeraj Singh, who oversees the entire work of the Lucknow parliamentary constituency, is keen to enter active politics. Neeraj is associated with BJP since 2000. Rajnath’s elder son Pankaj Singh, who is BJP’s MLA from Noida as well as the party’s state vice-president, has actually set his sights on the Lucknow parliamentary seat. So the biggest challenge before Rajnath is how he can manage both his son and provide a a new sky to their political ambitions.

MP GOVT RECOMMENDS CBI INQUIRY

I n what couldbe termed as a major development in the Sanjivani Credit Society episode, the Madhya Pradesh government has recommended a CBI inquiry into the matter. There are some victims from MP who had lodged an FIR against the society, whereas in Rajasthan, union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat was also seeking the same and filed a petition in Jodhpur High Court regarding the same. Now the road has become easier with the decision of Madhya Pradesh government and sooner or later the investigation will go out of the hands of Rajasthan SOG and go to CBI, and this could have far-reaching political consequences.

...AND FINALLY

T he alliance between the Congress and the Left parties got a new face in the Tripura elections, gas the results of the alliance were also encouraging. So, the same pattern was repeated in Manipur also. Now intense brainstorming is going on in the Congress as to why not in the 2024 general elections, following the same pattern i.e. by forging an alliance with the Left parties, the Congress should together present a challenge to Mamata and the BJP in West Bengal.

Om Birla on Kota tour, meets public on first day

Jaipur: Students of tribal area will get the facility of residential school and hostel nearby. The state government is going to start 8 hostels and 1 residential school under Tribal Regional Development Department. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved the proposal for creation of posts to open and operate them from the current session itself. With this approval, a new residential school will be opened at Jalore district headquarters. For this, 6 posts of second class teacher, 5 posts of lecturer, Principal, Physical Teacher, Warden/Superintendent Grade-II, and a total of 15 temporary posts including one post of junior

UP CM YOGI ON SEVENTH HEAVEN

The popularity of Yogi Adityanath , who took the initiative to end the mafi a rule from Uttar Pradesh, is on the seventh heaven these days, especially since the dreaded criminal of the state Atiq Ahmed has been eliminated.

If sources are to be believed, in recent days, Yogi has received an important message from the BJP top leadership that ‘he is going to play an important role in the 2024 general elections.’ He will also have a big responsibility to bear the expenses of the party.

In fact, in the ‘Global Investor Summit’ organized by Yogi in Lucknow recently, an investment of Rs 32.92 lakh crore has been promised and a record number of 18,643 MoUs were signed. Earlier, in the ‘Global Investor Summit’, Gujarat used to be at the number one position. When Narendra Modi was the CM of Gujarat, there was an investment of about 15 lakh crore rupees, which was a record. Now Yogi has planned to set up a new industrial city on the lines of Noida at Shandila near Hardoi, which is only two and a half hours away from Lucknow airport.

WHERE IS GUDDU MUSLIM?

I n the famous Umesh Pal murder case, in a CCTV footage, notorious Atiq’s follower Guddu Muslim is seen throwing a bomb. While most of the accused have been killed by the UP STF, but the whereabouts of Guddu Muslim are still not known. But there is also a myth associated with Guddu that ‘whoever he is with, gets killed’. It is said that he has an old habit that he either kills the said person himself or gets him killed by being an informer. When he was with Satyendra Singh Langad, he got him killed him with the help of Santosh Singh. Then Santosh Singh was killed by Bahubali Dhananjay Singh on Guddu’s information. It is said that then this person started making bombs for Mukhtar Ansari, but when Mukhtar went to jail, he joined Atiq Ahmed. Sources also claim that UP Police and STF killed Atiq’s son Asad and his accomplice Ghulam in an encounter in Jhansi on the basis of information received from Guddu Muslim. Atiq’s brother Ashraf wanted to tell the media persons before his death - ‘Main baat hai ki Guddu Muslim...’, however, he was killed before he could finish his sentence. It is being said about Guddu Muslim, who has a prize of 5 lakhs, that these days he has become the biggest informer of UP STF.

Additional posts for teachers will also be created with the schools.

PROVISION OF `67 CRORE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMICALLY WEAKER SECTIONS clerk will be created. New girls hostels at Kasbathana, Deori, Bhanwargarh and Shahbad in Baran district, boys hostel at Talaiya (Bichiwada) in Dungarpur and girls hostel at Gadamoriya, boys hostel at Pratapgarh district headquarters and new girls hostel at Kurabad in Udaipur will be started. One post of Superintendent Grade-II will be created in each hostel.

F or welfare of Economically weaker sections, a total financial provision of Rs 67.92 crore has been made in various schemes run under the Economic Weaker Sections Development Fund for the year 2023-24. CM Ashok Gehlot has approved its proposal. In this, provision of Rs 5.50 crore in EWS Post Matric Scholarship Scheme, Rs 40.17 crore in construction and operation of EWS College Level Girls Hostels, and Rs 9 crore in EWS CM Anuprati Coaching Scheme. Rs 10 crore has been sanctioned for EWS Girl Child Scooty Distribution Scheme, Rs 1.74 crore for EWS Girl Child Cycle Distribution Scheme and Rs 16 lakh for EWS CM Shiksha Alankar Yojana.

Apart from this, the services of Class IV employees, cooks, watchmen and sweepers will be outsourced on job basis. It is noteworthy that in the budget year 2023-24, CM Gehlot had announced regarding the creation of necessary posts and arrangement of necessary resources for these hostels and residential schools.

Om Birla installing Bird Water Feeder in Kota on Saturday.

First India Bureau

Kota: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla held a public hearing at his Lok Sabha Camp in Shakti Nagar on Saturday. Om Birla, who is on a fiveday visit to his Lok Sabha constituency, took part in a series of programmes on the first day. He planted a sapling on the occasion of Earth Day. Later, he visited Kaithun and Chechat area and attended the mass marriage ceremony of Mali Samaj and Veer Gurjar Samaj.

The speaker also gave the blessing to the newlyweds and said that the parents who got their sons and daughters married in the mass ceremony deserve gratitude.

First India Bureau Jaipur: The internal survey conducted by Congress has got the party high command on an alert mode.

Sources have revealed that according to the survey, tickets of MLAs can be cut in large numbers.

It is being murmured in the relevant political circles of the grand-old prty that Congress can cut tickets of more than 90 MLAs as there is immense anti-incumbency atmosphere in all these constituencies. In fact, State in- charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has reportedly bluntly told these MLAs in one to one dialogue that 'According to the survey your condition is bad, you will not be able to win'. However, it is also being said that Congress party is strong in rest of the seats.

Nirmal Tiwari & Bharat Dixit Jaipur: Tiger conservation is necessary in the coming times, only then we will live. No matter which govts came in Rajasthan, they gave their own efforts in it, Vaibhav Gehlot said during the “Baghotsav” organised at the Hotel Clarks Amer on Saturday.

Tourism Minister Vishvendra Singh, Cabinet Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, RCA President Vaibhav Gehlot, Advisor to Chief Minister Rajkumar Sharma, Mayor of Jaipur Municipal Corporation Heritage Munesh Gurjar, HOFF DN Pandey, Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO and Editor-inChief, Bharat24-Vision of New India and First India, and CMD, First India News, and many officers of forest Depart- ment were present in the program. Dr Chandra said that in today’s time the officials of the Forest Department and Tourism Department are doing a great work. “First India and Bharat24 remain connected with the