Arun Jaitely is going through a stroke of good luck nowadays. His speech in the Rajya Sabha became the talk of the media, and it looks like an old desire of his might just be met with. Jaitely has always believed that to appoint judges, India should have a National Judicial Commission. This work is currently done by Collegiums of Judges. Now the government looks ready to have a Judicial Commission.

Known accused Sanjeev Saxena for the cash for vote scam has also put some serious accusations on Shyam Jaju, who is close to BJP president and is also the party’s national secretary. In his oath letter, Saxena has stated that whatever money he got was given to him by Shyam Jaju at the BJP headquarters. After that he was taken to another prominent BJP leader’s residence. When he reached Ashok Argal’s house, all top leaders of the BJP were present there, where the sting was talked about.

So, recently when the BJP’s firebrand politician Uma Bharti went to Advani’s residence with her grievance, in a way Advani looked very helpless in front of her. Bharti dared to open up about Rajnath Singh’s alleged Thakurvad in front of Advani, and told him that since Rajnath has been given the duty of taking extra care of Uttar Pradesh, Thakurvad is reigning rampant in the party since then. The trio of Rajnath Singh and his disciples Narendra Tomar and Saudan Singh have taken over the state party unit completely. To Uma’s disturbance, all Advani could mouth was, “All right, I will talk to Gadkari ji about this.”

Advani is hurt, hurt at the treatment meted out to him for his loyalty to the party. Those who consider the Sangh agenda their prime priority, are trying with all their might to make Advani redundant in the party. Advani has read the writing on the wall and knows that the Sangh is of the view that Advani shouldn’t contest the Lok Sabha elections due in 2014. Advani is preparing himself to get ready for the same, and most of his time is spend in reading and writing. He is very active in the blog space and al his blog compilations are now going to be brought out as a book by Rupa and Company as “As I see it”. What all does this veteran leader need to see more?

The BJP is in shock and awe with Yeddyurappa’s revolutionary mood. He has threatened that he will form a regional party, and says he is the one responsible for the party’s win in Karnataka – he has increased the number of Assembly members from two to 122. Where BJP had a miniscule 0.4 per cent vote share in the state, he has brought it up to 35 per cent. He says that if the party insults him, the Lingayats in the state will take it as their own insult. That’s because in north Karnataka alone, there are 25-30 per cent voters are Lingayats. There are nearly 20 per cent Lingayats in the state, while 14.5 per cent are Vokalingas. Yeddy’s camp is considering the 78 Assembly members of the BJP as their own, because they have won only because of Yeddyurappa. He claims that he can manage another 22 Assembly members since in their areas, there are as many as 15,000-20,000 Lingayat voters. There are 22 such Assembly members from Bengaluru and coastal Karnataka who have won on their own, and who are under the influence of the Sangh and Anant Kumar.

The party has given the responsibility of coming out of the Telengana trouble to their old problem-solver Ghulam Nabi Azad. Azad is also the prabhari for Andhra Pradesh. He is currently suffering from back bone disk problem (thank God he has a back bone), and can’t sit in a chair for a long time. So when a Rayalseema delegation came to meet him recently, it also had two doctors – Dr Geeta Reddy and Dr M Jagannatham. The meeting had just started when Azad cried out in pain. Both doctors instantly asked for some medicines and sprays, and the Telengana matter was lost in Azad’s pain. The doctors’ prescription worked and Azad found relief from pain but the Telengana trouble continues to hurt.

The moot question is why the heat of CBI interrogations is felt only by the Opposition leaders. Why doesn’t the same go to the Congress leaders? For instance, for the Hawala, it was Advani, Khurana, Yashwant Sinha, Sharad Yadav and so on, while disproportionate assets cases involved Mayavati, Mulayam, Lalu, Prakash Singh Badal, Chautala, Jayalalithaa and CPM’s Pinnarai. Until the time Jagmohan Reddy was in the Congress, he got away with anything, but the moment he left the Congress and formed his own party, he came under the CBI suspicion.

The moment Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai’s ISI relations came to light in the US, the ruckus about the same kicked off in India. The trustworthiness of the three-member panel, which is headed by a former editor of a newspaper, who is also considered to be close to the prime minister, is being questioned. It is worth mentioning that it is this panel that has been constantly advising the prime minister that the situation before 1953 should be brought back in Jammu and Kashmir. This thing has also come out in the open that the members of this panel have gone to the US several times at Fai’s expense. So now all that they have been saying is being looking into by our investigation agencies. What is the reality of these unnamed faces? How do they sell themselves so easily? And the US anyways knew about Fai for some time now, and the reason the issue has been brought to light now is also obvious.

While on one hand there is something cooking between Mulayam Singh and the Congress, and Rahul baba himself is taking the soft approach towards Mulayam, some Congress ministers are sponsoring those against Mulayam. Lawyer Vishwanath Chaturvedi, who filed a PIL against Mulayam regarding disproportionate assets, and currently lives in Rajendra Nagar in Delhi has had his kids admitted to the Army School. The guardian of the children in Delhi is Kapil Sibal, who is already taking care of double responsibilities at the Centre.

Gadkari got three different surveys done by agencies regarding UP. Rajnath Singh was number one in terms of popularity, then came Varun Gnadhi, followed by Uma Bharti. Then pressure was put on Rajnath that he should be made to contest the next elections as the prospective chief minister, but Rajnath wasn’t ready for the same. He is still focusing on the 2014 elections. He wasn’t even ready to become the UP head (his disciple Narendra Singh Tomar already holds that post). Rajnath’s reasoning was that after becoming the party president, becoming a prabhari doesn’t hold any meaning, and even Kushabhau Thakeray and Jena Krishnamurthy didn’t hold the post once they had become party presidents (Venkaiah Naidu being the only exception here). So the centre has asked him to stress on UP and Uttarakhand, and maybe that is why Kalraj Mishra is telling everyone with aplomb that Rajnath is not the state prabhari.