India’s Central Vigilance Committee President Pratyush Sinha is due to retire in November. CBI Director Ashvini Kumar is the one lobbying the most for the post. It is understood that his lobbying has a silent nod from Priyanka Gandhi herself. But the IAS lobby has come out in full force against Ashvini, all set to not lose the post from their hands.

IB’s former director Ajeet Doval is also under the scanner. There might be charges on him although it hasn’t been made sure why Doval was so active in the Hindu terrorism networking circles. It is believed that he is the one who wrote the Hindi book titled “Bomb kaise banayein?” A few top members of MI are also under suspicion. So is Prabha Thakur nothing but a victim of circumstances?

Congress President has made it clear to all parliamentarians and top party members that all political and parliament issues will be looked into by Pranab Da. So if any Congress leader approaches the prime minister with a problem by mistake, the prime minister politely tells him to go and meet Pranab Da instead. Why is to be made of it? Are the prime minister’s wings being gradually trimmed?

While it is true that there is a long line of people waiting to stand witness in the Amit Shah case, but among those who have shown an interest in becoming a state witness include a police man, two sub-inspectors and a DSP. Now there are discussions on who among these should be made a state witness. Anyone who becomes one will automatically be acquitted from the case. But the coming days could mean nothing but trouble for Amit Shah since there are already cases against him in several courts involving violence and giving threats.

It is common knowledge now that while Ishrat was definitely a fidayeen, she visited Lucknow with Pillai, aka Javed four times. Pillai’s mother Shamima is a Muslim and her father was from a Hindu family in Kerala. Despite what Headley famous revealed to the FBI about Ishrat, the Gujarat police has been unable in telling the investigative agencies why Ishrat was brought to Ahmedabad for interrogation four days earlier and why was she killed in an encounter at the same crossroads where Sohrabuddin fell in an encounter? Was it merely a coincidence?

Let it be a given that the kind of arrangement the BJP has made with its other opposing parties, the coming Monsoon Session starting July 26 will be full of outrageous pandemonium. The BJP is bent of leaving its in-house bickering aside and come out of it shell. Which means that in the coming Parliament session, the party’s behaviour and attitude will be extremely aggressive. While the BJP will play political games riding on the back of issues Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the increasing food inflation and the Karnataka issue, Congress may give it back by talking about Hindu terrorism and the role Sangh has to play in it as well as the mining nexus in Karnataka and the Reddy Brothers’ connection.

Gadkari is troubled by his loose tongue, decreasing power and the other part of the BJP. When July 5 was announced as Bharat bandh by the opposition parties, some members of the other camp of BJP told Gadkari that since he is the national head of a national party, it doesn’t become him to go out on the roads protesting price rise. So to be on the streets, shout slogs and get arrested was a responsibility taken by Sushma Swaraj from Bhopal, Arun Jaitley from Lucknow, and Ravi Shankar from Patna. Later when the Delhi head of BJP Virendra Gupta met Gadkari, he made him agree to be active in Delhi. Sharad Yadav, Rajnath Singh and Harsimrat Badal were also prepared for the job. Gupta ji went all out with his clout in Delhi so that Gadkari gets some political mileage from the whole thing. Needless to say that Vijendra Gupta seems to have achieved this for now.

Myanmar’s military junta counsel head arrives in India on July 24. His travel expenses are being born by the Indian government. We have some extremely confidential deals with Myanmar and the most important being that Myanmar will not give any sort of land on the Indo-Burma border for any Maoist or anti-India activity. In return, India helps Myanmar abundantly, so much so that the Myanmar Embassy’s expenses are also borne by the Indian government. India is also providing free IT training to Myanmar students. From a military strategy point of view, India’s priority is to make sure that the Chinese influence is negated in Myanmar. In return, Myanmar wants the Indian government and the media not to ask any questions about the house arrest and imprisonment of Aung San Su Kyi. And we are actually keeping quiet about it and have our eyes shut. But it’s time for Myanmar to open its eye lids.

The Congress has again put an increase in diesel prices on hold. If the public still doesn’t lose its attention from the Bhopal gas tragedy, they are soon in for a rude shock. The petroleum prices will again be set to rise with the public made to suffer. But let it suffer. Who cares about the damned people, anyways?

What with the ever-increasing food inflation, the opposition parties have had to come together to speak against it. The opposition parties have decided that on July 5, they will hold rallies against the inflation in their respective states. The Communist Party was always of the opinion that the problem should be addressed with nationwide agitation and now that the BJP has also woken up to the problem, it has joined hands. Seeing this, the JD(U) also came forward and Lalu-Mulayam followed. July 5 has been touted as a nationwide protest day against rising prices.