Dinesh Trivedi has been named the “outstanding” minister in the Parliament. There was a time when Trivedi was much loved in the Congress, but seeing his revolutionary stance, the Congress has distanced itself from him. The room for which Trivedi let his worse side show is actually a room on the ground floor, which had been given to the then Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee only because it has an attached bathroom and being a woman, the room suited Banerjee the most. Later, the Congress gave that room to Ambica Soni on the same premise. And this made the man in Dinesh Trivedi bristle with anger.

Until when will you prevent the inevitable? The CAG report on the Commonwealth loot has become a thorn in Shila Dixit’s side and this time it doesn’t look like she’ll get away with it. The wait is on only for Sonia Gandhi coming back to India. Her operation in a hospital in the US has been successful and she is recuperating. But the party has given signals to Shila that she should be ready to pack her bags and go. Party whispers also reveal that the moment she will be free from the CM’s post, she will be made to work on the UP elections, where Assembly elections are due next year. After this, she might be given a governor’s post somewhere. Shila’s son Sandeep Sixit may also be made a state minister in the Manmohan government.

The experience was never-wracking for a female journalist of a TV news channel. This most powerful minister from the Manmohan Singh government had given a great interview to a competition channel. So this lady was also under the pressure from her boss to get an interview from the minister. After a week of trying, the minister called the journalist home. A young assistant there led her to the minister’s study. This middle-aged politician instantly commented, “If you were to share a bed with me, then at night I would be grinding my teeth.” The journalist was shocked and ran back and wrote about the entire incident in her blog without naming the minister. What do you call this behaviour from a minister who belongs to a party led by a woman? It is worth mentioning that this wayward minister has earlier too conned several journalists, and sources reveal that he isn’t the only minister in the Cabinet like this and that the casting couch has become prevalent among the politicians. “Shayad tum nahi jantey ki dhakney ki fer mein/ kai kai baar udhadte rahe ho tum/ kai kai baar dikhi hai tumhari maili badbudaar ganji/ jisey jhak jhak saaf kameez se dhaktey firtey ho tum/ gehrati chuppi ke andhere mein sulag rahi hai bheetar jo aakrosh ki aag/ uski roshni mein padh rahi hoon/ Tumhare khilaf akele larne ke khatron ke khel (From a poem by Nirmala Putul).

Munni got a bad name in the Nepali Parliament, too. The Nepali Congress Parliamentarian, Minendra Rijal, who is also a former cultural minister, and has a soft corner for Hindi movie songs. So the moment the Parliament started its work on Thursday, Rijal faced the prime minister Jhala Nath Khanal with “Munni badnaam hui…” on his lips and asked for his resignation. While Rijal called the prime minister Munni, he likened former Maoist chief Pushp Kamal Dahal as the darling. It is worth mentioning that Khanal got the post of the prime minister only because of the support of the Maoists and now they are pressuring the prime minister to make 24 of its people ministers. But the Nepali Congress doesn’t want a reshuffle and thus the Parliament work is stalled for the past one month.