Bihar Ex-IAS to be Governor?
A top retired bureaucrat of the Bihar cadre who was once a close confidante of the then Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and continues to enjoy the same generosity from the incumbent CM Samrat Chaudhary, albeit not part of the Bihar CM Office (CMO), has been tipped to get ready for a gubernatorial assignment. A couple of months ago, the officer, who had a stint at one of the major infrastructure departments followed by a well-known ministry at the Centre a few years ago, was tasked with an advisory role in the Bihar Government and may be appointed Governor of a non-BJP-ruled government. Grapevine has it that last week a former high-profile Union Minister, a top BJP leader from the state and the officer met and are believed to have discussed the probability of the latter being anointed as the Governor.
Reshuffle on Guru Nanak Jayanti!
Once again, with assembly elections due in a couple of months in crucial states including Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, the latest buzz in power corridors indicates that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to reshuffle or expand his Council of Ministers on November 24. Grapevine has it that the date of November 24, which is also Guru Nanak Jayanti, has been strategically chosen as BJP is now keen to make inroads in Punjab as well after making inroads on its own in West Bengal and Bihar. While Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri is certain to be retained in Modi's cabinet with his re-nomination as a Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh, which was done keeping away from the thumb rule of the ruling party not to nominate the retiring members from the upper house in recent times, sources say that at least two more members from Punjab could be luckier to be inducted in Modi’s new Council of Ministers.
Nightmare of top officials — Mahadev App raids
After CBI deported the two kingpins of Mahadev App fraud, nightmare is on many top officials about who all going to be interrogated. Currently, CBI probe was limited to political patrons of Mahadev App, which resulted in loot of more than Rs 6,000 crore public money. Grapevine has it that there were very senior Government officials who helped the scamsters to get the controversial App’s operations in India. Saturday, CBI has conducted raids across 33 areas in Delhi and Mumbai. It is well known that a powerful official who was in charge of media was removed from a top office for helping Mahadev App to boom in India and easy transfer of money through Banks.