During the hearing of a public interest litigation in the high court, Uttarakhand’s advocated informed the court that the government has cancelled all power projects that had been approved with immediate effect. New guidelines are now being drawn for the same. Sources say that Nishank has in a way given up before the president. New guidelines would mean that whoever wants to have a new power project in the state should first seek blessings from the party president and get adequate guidelines from him. The party president is indeed great, giving lights to so many with his power.

Supporting Gadkari in this entire endeavor were Mukesh Ambani, Essar, Tata and Lakshmi Mittal. That is because work by these industrialists is stalled in the state for some reason or the other. BJP leader Nishakant Dubey from Goda, and ex-Director of Essar in the east had a prominent role to play in the same. As it is, Munda and Essar go a long way. Whenever Munda visit Delhi, he stays at the Essar guest house.

Attempts are on again in Jharkhand to form a government with the coalition of BJP and Janshakti Mukti Morcha. Among the middlemen are those people who have some of the other connection with one of the other big business houses of India.

While on one hand the National Advisory Council formed under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi is awash in red, that is has a lot of people who side with Maoist sentiments, the PMO is replete with America-supporting lobby.

As the days to Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal’s retirement approach, the search to find his successor is becoming more frenzied. But the two names that are cropping up a lot are that of Neeraj Kumar and B K Gupta. But Neeraj Kumar’s opponents are busy publicizing how 10, Janpath is unhappy with him because he was also involved in the Bofors investigations and has close ties with some BJP leaders such as Shatrughn Sinha.

Margaret Alva is not happy with her present governor’s position in Uttarakhand and may be sent to Jharkhand. Since the state is to see elections soon and is under President’s rule currently, the role of the governor might be a crucial one. And Jharkhand is also a state where there is no dearth of Christian missionaries but recently there have been some loud noises against them. In such circumstances, sending Alva to the state might be looked upon as a symbolic step by the Central government headed by the Congress. Obviously, Alva’s role right now would be to curb “Anti Christian” people and please the Christian Catholic Church.

Nitish’s old friend Rajiv Ranjan aka Lallan Singh has made up his mind to join the Congress. To test the Congress waters, he has even thrown Jamshed Ashraf as a stone in the far end of the pool. Ashraf was a minister in Nitish Kuma’s government and is close to Lallan as well. The Congress is treating him alright. He was supposed to have taken part in the Congress rally with Sonia Gandhi in Patna on 24, but that was cancelled. But Lallan’s mind is made up. He is in constant touch with Ahmed Patel and has been seen visiting Rajiv Shukla’s residence at times. Congress on the other hand wants to see how big a division can Lallan create in JD (U). That will decide his political stature in the party.

India will soon get two new vigilance commissioners. R Srikumar from the 1973 batch of Karnataka cadre may be the first one to be appointed. He has been with the CBI for 10 years, where he headed the “Fraud Detection Wing”. It is worth mentioning that he was also the IO for the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. The second name is of Jagmohan Garg, CMD, Corporation Bank. He is believed to be close to Pranab Mukherjee and his name has been floated by Pranab himself. These two appointments have indicated to the fact that the new CVC chief will be from batches senior than 1973.

There are possibilities Justice Dinakaran may be buried of the charges. The Rajya Sabha had formed a three-member probe committee against him. The committee has one Supreme Court and one high court judge with Nariman being the third. The committee hasn’t got any substantial proof against him; the parliamentarians who had written letters against him are also changing their stand now and have confesses that they don’t have any solid witnesses against him. When the judge had been transferred to the Sikkim High Court recently, there were talks that this dalit Christian judge will be buried of the charges.

Kalmadi is getting ready to retort. Kalmadi’s close aides say that this entire movement agenda against him is being fanned by a newspaper group that wanting the Commonwealth’s branding rights. Kalmadi had asked for a big amount for the same and it hadn’t agreed with the group.