The shadow of uncertainty is hovering over the Raipur session of Congress. Earlier this 85th session of Congress was called in Raipur for three days i.e. from 24 to 26 February. Now it is believed that instead of 24, the session will start on 25 and end on 26. Everyone’s eyes were fixed on this conference because after 26 years the elections of the Congress Working Committee were to be held. But now it is believed that this CWC election will be postponed and party president Mallikarjun Kharge will be authorized to elect a representative for the working committee by show of hands, which he will decide after returning to Delhi. Of the 23 members of the Congress Working Committee, 12 were to be elected by the AICC delegates, and 11 were to be nominated by the President. But it seems that there will be no election now, because there are indications of irregularities in the AICC list as well. Differences have been found in the list of about 1300 AICC representatives from 29 states and union territories and the list provided by the PCC, raising questions about the role of Madhusudan Mistry and VP Singh of the election committee, who have included the names of their favorite people in the list. More or less similar errors were also seen in the list of delegates during the election of the party President as well.

BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi may have lost his Rajya Sabha membership, may have lost his ministerial post, but his spirits continue to soar. When there is an uproar over Ramcharit Manas across the country, especially in states like UP-Bihar, Naqvi has decided to organize a grand staging of ‘Jai Shri Ram Ramayana’ in Muslim-dominated areas, especially in Rampur’s Rathonda Kisan Mela. On the occasion of Mahashivaratri, on March 3, this grand three-hour performance based on Ramcharit Manas will take place. Many famous faces from Ramanand Sagar’s famous TV serial will be a part of this staging, which include actors like Puneet Issar and Bindu Dara Singh. In this Ramayana staging, modern technology and various contexts of Shri Ramcharit Manas are being powerfully threaded into one thread. It should be noted that in the same fair last year, Naqvi had staged the Mahabharata as well. The historic Shiva temple is also situated here where lakhs of people gather for Jalabhishek on the occasion of Mahashivaratri. In fact, Naqvi also performed Jalabhishek by going to the Shiva temple during the inauguration of this fair on Thursday.

With the success of the ‘UP Investor Summit’, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has received a new message from Delhi asking him to ‘ensure the dates of civic elections in the state as soon as possible.’ It has been said that ‘his long-pending cabinet reshuffle may remain stuck until the civic elections in the state are over.’ In fact, Yogi has been engaged in a major reshuffle exercise in his cabinet for some time now, where many of his old ministers have to leave and many new faces have to get a place in the cabinet. In fact, the UP local body elections are stuck in a dilemma that the reservation formula has not been finalized yet. This reservation formula is to be decided for mayors of 17 municipal corporations, presidents of 200 municipal corporations and chairman of 546 city panchayats. It should be noted that the deadline for municipal elections has ended on January 5 itself. At present, Yogi has sent a tip to Delhi that ‘election procedures are being finalised’. It seems Yogi is also waiting for the right time for himself.

Ever since the country’s new President Draupadi Murmu stepped into the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the atmosphere there has changed. For the officers and staff of Rashtrapati Bhavan, it is like a cool breeze, as unlike her predecessors, President Murmu has broken many declared myths as soon as he came. The staff of Rashtrapati Bhavan does not remember, if ever any President has sent Diwali sweets for them and their children at his or her own expense. Sources reveal that ‘the President’s expenditure on sweet boxes and gifts alone was about two to two and a half lakhs, which she himself bore.’ The staff of Rashtrapati Bhavan have become convinced of her simplicity, decency and ease of living. She also wakes up at three in the morning, then does an hour-long yoga and meditation routine, then leaves for her morning walk at four, which lasts about a quarter of an hour. Now only vegetarian food is cooked in the kitchen of Rashtrapati Bhavan without onion and garlic. The practice of non-vegetarian food has stopped. The kitchen of Rashtrapati Bhavan has also been asked to be closed by 10 pm. Earlier, the employees who went home after finishing duty late at night did not even get any traveling allowance, now they have started getting it. The President is well aware of the fact that the face of the new India is mostly formed by meeting the youth of the country, so in order to connect with the youth and understand their expectations properly, she is also using the social media platform ‘Facebook’ a lot. She takes time, makes short notes for her speeches, which are included in her main speech. If the top changes, surely its fragrance will be felt across the country.

After the completion of the first phase of Bharat Jodo Yatra, Priyanka Gandhi had outlined 24 women-centric programs under the ‘Hath Se Hath Jodo Campaign’. The campaign focused on issues related to half of the population i.e., women. But Rahul Gandhi’s office wanted that ‘Rahul should be invited to programs where a crowd of more than ten thousand can gather, otherwise Priyanka can continue with her programme.’ There is still confusion regarding this.

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The three-day Pratinidhi Sabha of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is being held at Samalkha in Sonipat district of Haryana from March 12 to 14, in which about 2 thousand important representatives associated with all the affiliated organizations of the Sangh will participate. This meeting is also considered important from the point of view that ‘Assembly elections are being held in three states of the North-East right now. After this, assembly elections are to be held in six other states and the general election of 2024 is also just knocking at the door. Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has been giving statements on many important issues for the past several times, moving away from the accepted and traditional ideology of the Sangh. In this regard, his address to the office bearers of the union on March 14 is also considered very important.

There are discussions everywhere about a female MP, who has a high influence in the political corridors of Delhi, who has given leave to all the leaders of Delhi BJP and has hoisted the flag of her supremacy in NDMC. The NDMC had allowed four restaurants to run on its land opposite Bhikaji Cama Place in New Delhi for several years on a very nominal lease guarantee. The demand of some time and some luck of these restaurant owners paid off that these days the craze among the youth of these restaurants has increased and every evening a huge crowd of youth started gathering here. It goes without saying that this made the restaurant owner’s pockets ‘full of silver’. This MP says that ‘these restaurant owners were making huge profits, but were paying a very meager amount to NDMC in the name of lease guarantee, while the opposing camp says that ‘the MP hastily got these the licenses of the four restaurants canceled just because the MP had to oblige some restaurateurs of their choice.’ The matter has gained so much momentum that now the BJP top has to intervene in it.

A flamboyant scion of the Gandhi family, Varun, a poet by nature and scholar by hobby, was finalizing the presentation of his ambitious book ‘The Indian Metropolis’ on urbanisation, as Gandhi’s elder brother Rahul walked 3,600 km to ‘unite India’. The 824-page mammoth book hit the market as soon as it arrived and went on to become a ‘best seller’ with much fanfare like its predecessors. Rupa Publications, which published this book for Rs 1,500, claims that ‘this book broke all sales records as soon as it came in the market’. The book has sold more than seven thousand copies in the first two days itself.’ The publisher claims that ‘their first print run is of one lakh copies.’ The publisher also says that ‘they plan to achieve this target of sales achieve it easily as this book has created a huge ‘hype’ as soon as it came out.’ Varun has discussed in great detail the various forms of urbanization and their challenges in this ambitious book. In this research book contained in eight chapters, important issues like water and sanitation, crime in the city, health system, urban transport, urban unemployment, accessible housing for all have been deeply investigated.

This will probably be the last reshuffle of the Modi cabinet. Sources reveal that the BJP high command has finalized the list of ‘which ministers are to be dropped and which new faces are to join the Union Cabinet.’ It is believed that in the cabinet meeting convened on February 22 many new faces can be seen. All the ministers have been informed about why the cabinet meeting on 22nd is so important and they have been asked to remain in Delhi on 22nd. Now Narendra Modi and Amit Shah will decide whether the reshuffle will be like the Gujarat model or some other formula will be adopted.