GK of Kerala’s Minister
Kerala’s Sports Minister and CPI(M) Central Committee Member EP Jayarajan became butt of social media jokes, when he described the iconic boxer Muhammed Ali on a TV channel as the pride of Keralite who had won so many Gold Medals for the State. The TV anchor tried to do the damage control by cutting down the live talk, but Jayarajan has faced barrage of ridicule on social media. Now CPI(M) leaders have to do some explaining as to how the Central Committee took such a person with no general knowledge as its Member.
Goel’s antics
BJP MP Vijay Goel’s at it again. Known for putting up eye-catching banners at his residence, Goyal has got the following one this time: “Mamata ke ghar jamavada- Sir, Main banoonga PM!” The banners shows a jamboree of leaders — including Akhilesh Yadav, lalu Prasad Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Farooq Abdullah, Arvind Kejriwal present at Mamata’s swearing-in function, but all hoping for their own coronation in 2019.
Fodder & farmers
The annual Press conference of Union Agriculture Ministry to mark two years of NDA Government was less on content and more on rhetoric. To all specific questions on farmers suicide, price rise, crop failure, the agriculture Minister offered copybook l answers. But when one journalist put a question about poor farmers forced to eat grass rotis in Bundelkhand due to agrarian crisis, the Minister counted the Government schemes which had no connection to the question. In the process, the Minister added the name of Fodder Development Scheme, without realising that the question was about farmers eating grass, and the scheme he mentioned was for animals!
Justice to Words
As Justice Dipak Misra inches close to his elevation as Chief Justice of India, there is a marked change in the language of his judgments. In the recent judgments delivered by the judge, the language he uses is simple and apt to describe the logic behind his decision. Grapevine has it that the judge decided on some course correction after his landmark judgment upholding the criminal provision of defamation in May this year. The judge had come under criticism from experts and legal writers who found the vocabulary beyond comprehension.
Gangajal by courier
The recent Government decision to deliver Gangajal at the doorsteps of common man by post, has kicked up a storm. Considering Ganga as the `mother’, several seers have objected to the commercialization of Gangajal asking the Government to withdraw its decision.
Irani’s achievements
A volley of questions awaited HRD Minister Smriti Irani during a Press conference to highlight the achievement of the Modi Government on completion of two years in office. When some journalists persisted with questions as what “new” things she did during the period to improve the education system, an infuriated Irani chided them,
asking what did they know about the education system of the country. She also slammed the media for “unfortunate misleading headlines” the way they are frequently done.