Do you remember Sant Singh Chatwal, the one dear to Hillary and Bill Clinton? Nowadays, he is trying to get into the good books of Team Modi. This non-resident Indian businessman met with Ram Madhav, who gives final shape to Modi’s foreign trips and ensures they are a success, and shared a wireframe idea of hosting a dinner for wealthy Indians living in the US, in Modi’s honour. It is believed that after getting the go-ahead from Team Modi, Chatwal started to collect $1,000 per person for the dinner. Chatwal’s agenda was clear: give $1,000, dine with Modi. People started to give money to take part in it, but when Team Modi got a whiff of the fact that money is being made in the name of dinner with Modi, the charity dinner by Chatwal was scrapped.

BJP President Amit Shah is a tad upset with some media houses nowadays. The reason: these media groups are fanning the fire of anti-Modi news. He is also extremely concerned about these media houses leaking the news about his meeting with party secretaries. He spoke strictly to each secretary about this, and asked them to furnish details about which journalist each of them met. If they didn’t, he would go through each of their call details.

It is no longer a secret that our able prime minister believes in the policy of rewards and punishment. His attitude towards the media has changed as well. The media people were surprised at his body language and attitude during the US trip. Sources say that a tez channel of the country is going to be rewarded for its tirade against Kejriwal. If everything goes according to plan, Modi might do a special one-hour discussion with the channel on October 2.

The Public Policy Polling recently conducted two public opinion surveys. One of them is about Modi’s popularity in the country and the second is about Bihar’s Assembly elections. While the results of Modi’s popularity survey have been made public, those about Bihar Assembly election results have been have been put on the backburner. It is heard that the BJP itself is mulling over purchasing the survey data, so that notes can be compared properly during the elections.

A new Smita Thackeray is said to be visible on Maharashtra’s political horizon. It’s the state’s young chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ wife Amrita, who is staging one live vocal show after another in and around Mumbai, and who is often seen pictured next to film stars and industrialists. Some chosen industrial houses are constantly organizing programmes for her. It is said India’s top industrialist Mukesh Ambani is a big fan of her singing as well. Ambani himself has organized several singing soirees for her. When the strength of musical notes meets political clout, things are sure to take a different turn.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is said to be peeved with two of his ministers. One of them is Eknath Khadse and the other is from Shiv Sena ‘s quota. But considering they are veteran politicians, the chief minister is forced to keep quiet. The chief minister’s office just can’t get its point across when it comes to the health ministry. It is being said that both ministers are doing what they want to, even though they don’t get the go-ahead from the chief minister; neither are they concerned about policies that have been announced by the government.

The finance ministry is concerned about the financial health of the country. Top officers of the ministry are in deep thought and consultation on why all economic scenarios are appearing bleak, be it the stock market, gold, or real estate. The rupee is constantly dropping against the dollar. The countries that had assured of big investments have been a no-show so far, even Japan. Indian industry is facing similar blues. The surprising thing is that whatever money has come into India has come from Mauritius and Singapore. It is worth mentioning that this money route is the same one followed by hawala and other ways.

People like Akhilesh Das and Raja Bhaia are knocking on Rajnath Singh’s door and are said to keen on joining the BJP. At the same time, Thakur sahib has still not decided whether he should talk to Amit Shah about the two or not.

This is a conversation that took place between two prominent women ministers of the Modi government after a regular Cabinet meeting. One minister to the other: “You have gained weight nowadays. My daughter says you look older than me in years, while the reality is you are several years younger than me.” The second woman minister laughed aloud and said, “My guruji from Ujjain has said that if I stopped worrying about myself and materialistic things, I will become powerful in politics. Not just this, my guruji has even said that the more I gain weight, my political clout will increase proportionately.” The first minister said with some shock, “One can see that. Have your guruji from Ujjain meet me, too.”

A few days ago, four maulanas from the Sunni Muslim community went to meet Asaduddin Owaisi in Hyderabad, the city from where Owaisi is the MP. These Muslim religious leaders expressed their worry that Owaisi was knowingly or unknowingly helping the BJP in the Bihar elections. To this, Owaisi replied, “No, it’s not like that. Our party also had our candidates in Maharashtra and the state today has two MLAs from our party. We want to get a foothold in Bihar, too.” To this, the Sunni maulanas told Owaisi that if that was the case, he should have candidates in the election for two or four seats, but in constituencies where their win was a strong possibility. If he launched his candidates in 30-32 seats, the community would get a message that he was playing politics on the BJP’s money. At this, Owaisi swore that a single rupee from the BJP was forbidden for him, because he was fighting for Muslims and their rights. So now despite wanting to, Owaisi will not be able to help the BJP as much.