How the strategy to switch Congress legislators to BJP was interwoven? Sources say that it is Akhilesh Das, the well-wisher of BJP who dug the roots of the strategy. The BJP’s font was handled by Lucknow’s Mayor and BJP’s President Amit Shah’s close aid Dinesh Sharma. From Delhi he got the support of Bhupendra Yadav and Shiv Prakash. Sunil Bansal was kept out of the loop. It is said that the news was leaked from Bansal that Shiv Prakash is coming from Delhi as he had to meet few people in Piccadilly hotel and he will return to Delhi the same day. But his plan is not mentioned in Party’s programme. He is on a secret mission. The news spread in the jiffy; soon media flocked outside Piccadilly hotel. The main door was almost covered by the plethora of cameras. When the legislator of Congress willing to join BJP got to know about the media he stepped back. After a lot of request one, Congress Legislator was made to enter inside the hotel from a back door and was made to meet leaders who came from Delhi. The Congress leader Pramod Tiwari got to know about this and he tried to inform Rahul but somehow could not do so. Then he gave all the information to Priyanka Gandhi. It is said that infuriated Sunil Bansal called Krishnagopal and expressed his pain that if all the tickets will be distributed to outsiders then what will be left for the loyal party workers.

Rahul Gandhi after his Bahraich rally met all his legislators in Lucknow for dinner and shared their concern. It is said that Rahul in this meeting assured his legislators that he is in touch with Akhilesh and soon the chapter of Congress- SP coalition will be closed. Rahul apprised them that he had a telephonic conversation with Akhilesh and he is quite excited for the coalition with Congress but an only hitch is a number of seats “he is ready to leave 55 seats but we want 70 seats.” According to sources, SP is now ready to leave 62 seats for Congress. The hitch is about 4-5 seats only. This includes seats of Malihan and Amethi. SP does not want to leave these seats for Congress. But the big leaders of Congress are willing to contest election from here.

After all the question is why Rahul Gandhi is in a huff for the coalition with SP? In the Assembly election of 2012, 27 legislators of Congress were elected. Nine among them left the party. According to sources among the remaining 18 legislators, 9 legislators were allured by BJP and they were quite close to few leaders of BJP. The grand plan of BJP was to include those nine legislators of Congress in BJP that too in the presence of Modi in Lucknow. The idea was to deepen the saffron roots and topple down the courage of Congress. Anyhow the Congress leader got a clue of this plan. He immediately informed Priyanka Gandhi in Delhi about it. She further apprised Rahul over the phone without any delay. According to sources after Priyanka’s phone call Rahul immediately talked to Akhilesh and said that he agrees with what Akhilesh said in HT summit in Delhi and want it to happen as early as possible. It is said that Akhilesh also agreed to him and began working on distribution of seats.

Why did Najeeb Jung leave the tug of war with AAP? Sources say that since last two months Jung met BJP president Amit Shah and once with Prime Minister. As per the sources, he was asked to do something against Kejriwal and he was not convinced to do it. Moreover, he was also apprehensive that his name was often aligned to RSS and BJP and Muslim society were not able to get over it. It is said that in his meeting with PM, Jung talked about his resignation however PM asked Jung to ponder over his decisions. Indeed, he did not move from his decision. This is why he was shown the way out. In the race of Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi, Ajay Raj Sharma, Anil Baijal, K.J Alfonso are in the list. Among them, Alfonso is Prime Minister’s choice.

The chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis’ talented wife Amruta Fadnavis’ music video is viral. Attired in short red dress complemented with high heeled shoes, she is doing a jig with Amitabh Bachchan in a video titled ‘Phir Se’. It has been shot in a famous studio of South Mumbai’s refurbished Royal Opera House. Amruta was seen dancing on the steps of choreographer Ahmad Khan. This video has been produced by Bhushan Kumar of T -series.
Amruta has also sung for the movie Jai Gangajal and her debut was a Marathi movie “Sangharsh Yatra” a biopic made on late Gopinath Munde’s life. Amruta is employed at a prominent post in Axis bank

Since Parasmal Lodha, the Kolkatta businessman- realtor is nabbed by Enforcement Directorate (ED) and other investigation agencies, the audacious political rulers are turning meek. Sources reflect that there is an influx of revelations. After the historic announcement of demonetization on 8 November Lodha travelled almost more than six times in same chartered plane that is meant for Chief Minister, that too with (same) famous industrialist. This was transpired by the roster of this plane. It is said that the diary that has been seized from Lodha has names of several famous personalities. From the son of a leader of ruling party to several others flabbergasting details, this, however, proves that Lodha was all set to turn his black money into white. The digital diary of the who’s who of the political world consist name of former Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
Obtrusively, one of the prominent industrialist’s name from the field of communication and oil is also mentioned in the diary. His name also appeared in 2G scam. Sources say that this diary has a name of Vijay Singh Dogra who was associated with Sahara Chief. Dogra was also caught in London Chelsea ATM with the big amount. Since then he is on the wanted list. The Dogra’s diary has been used by Rahul and Kejriwal to flak the Prime Minister. The Kolkata businessman was arrested in connection with the recovery of plenty of new currency notes from a Delhi Law firm belonging to advocate Rohit Tandon and Chennai businessman Shekhar Reddy. It has been said that Lodha has much such shocking information that can bring political turmoil. But it doesn’t seem that government will take this too far to dig up the dirt as it might spoil their own hands.

The saffron leaders who like to celebrate their New Year in foreign destination got a message from PMO that all the Ministers of Union Government will celebrate New Year with simplicity. It is said that the PM’s order made several leaders to cancel their tickets. The leader like Nitin Gadkari also changed their mood and plan. Gadkari will celebrate his new year in Nagpur, in the same wake, Attorney General Mukul Rohtagi will celebrate this new year in Goa. According to sources, he has organised a new year celebration party on 30- 31 December in North Goa’s Panjim’s Grand Hyatt Hotel. Many high profile guests are going to attend the grand celebration. Ironically, the Hotel belongs to Shahid Balwa alleged for Coalgate and 2G scam. Indeed everyone knows that he has been presenting the case in court.

Some earlier decisions of the Modi government might take a new shape. It is said that Modi had assured the ultra-active Subramanian Swamy a post I his cabinet. But time went by and there was no sign of that. It is now being said that during a crucial meeting with the PM, the reckless Swamy was given a key assignment. He is to remove the stress that has developed between the Modi sarkar and the top judiciary. It is already well known that the PM is peeved with the incumbent Attorney General. And the name of a prospective new AG, supposed to a key Amit Shah man, has been more or less finalised. It is a matter of time before the old one is shown the door and Shah’s man ushered in. Swamy has now been tasked with opening up a conversation with the top judges. The tenure of the present chief justice of the apex court, Justice TS Thakur, ends on January 3, and Justice Kehar is slated to take over from him. Sources say that the new czar is close to former law minister Hansraj Bharadwaj, who in turn is famously friendly with Swamy. So the latter can trust Bhardwaj to create a win the confidence of Justice Kehar. As it stands, due to this tiff between the judiciary and the executive, all seven appointments of judges in the top body remains stalled. The numbers of high court vacancies are 50. If Swamy is able to break this impasse, one can hope to see him as the next law minister.

After the successful kidney transplantation, the ailing Sushma Swaraj seems poised for a major role to play in politics, possibly a Constitutional post. Modi wants this. And scuttlebutt is that two key RSS players, Bhaiyaji Joshi and Dattatreya Hosbole are strongly pitching in to anoint as the next President of the country. Being who they are, it is natural that the RSS top brass is silently siding with them. But there are hiccups. Some sections are pushing current Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for the slot. On the other hand, southern RSS biggies feel that this around someone from the south should be given the top job. Two names are being touted, but for chief justices. The first is KG Balakrishnan, and the other is Kerala governor P Sadashivam. The Vice President will be any one of these, after the President’s name is finalised. Insiders say that the Sangh feels that in terms of health or tactic and her unique ability to communicate, Swaraj should be the right choice.

The corridors of power are agog with the informed rumours of a major reshuffle in the Modi government’s upper echelons immediately after the coming Uttar Pradesh state polls early next year. The ruse for the changes will be ‘bad performance. And if the desires of the RSS of anointing the now ailing Sushma Swaraj as the next President of India is consented to by Modi, then it is possible that Arun Jaitley may be made the next foreign minister. Two names are flying about for the finance minister’s post: the powerful RSS heartthrob Nitin Gadkari, currently surface transport minister, and rail minister Suresh Prabhu. However, there is a buzz also that a successful technocrat may be given the responsibility of finance. The name of Piyush Goel was also doing the rounds, but so far there is no sign of RSS’ green signal for him.