Third eye: Open Mann Ki Baat against Bhagwant Mann

Helping Neighbour
Apart from training personnel and sharing knowhow on holding elections, India has recently supplied vehicles to the Election Commission of Nepal. It would come in handy in hilly terrain and far flung areas. Nepal is preparing to conduct local polls that would empower Madhesis.

Overenthusiastic ‘Selfie Morcha’
Amit Shah seems to have started a novel fan club — the ‘Selfie Morcha Jingbang’. The members of the club were so obsessed with selfies with the BJP president that they blocked him from addressing a meeting when he was in Kolkata recently. Finally, Shah had to intervene. Calling them ‘Selfie Morcha’, he requested them to be seated for the speech.

Vying for Special Status
With the Centre taking its ambitious plan to set up world-class institutes to the Cabinet soon, institutes have already started lining up to bag the status. Vedanta University chairman BK Patnaik, former Odisha chief secretary, was recently in HRD ministry to discuss the intricacies involved in the process to win the special status.

Open Mann Ki Baat Against Bhagwant
What were rumblings before the Punjab assembly elections have now translated into an open protest against comedianturned-politician Bhagwant Mann. AAP supporters from Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the US have written to Kejriwal opposing Mann’s likely appointment as party’s Punjab convener. The authors of the joint letter, who claim to have made huge donations to the party, have claimed that if Mann is made convener, it will be a ‘regressive’ move and the decision will have ‘irrevocable’ consequences.