Bhavan hunting

With the government resuming governors’ appointments, chronic Congress aspirants have turned edgy. Fellow Maharashtrian D Y Patil making it to Tripura has not fully dashed Shivraj Patil’s lingering hopes of 10 Janpath de-freezing him after ‘co-victims’ of Mumbai terror attack, Vilasrao Deshmukh and R R Patel, made their comeback.

The Patil camp thinks Madhya Pradesh or West Bengal Raj Bhavan would be ideal for him. Assam leader Santosh Mohan Deb, in no man’s land after his Lok Sabha poll defeat, is actively lobbying for a ticket to the Punjab Raj Bhavan.

As the Left waits to see off Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the governor they asked for before they got to know him up close and personal, Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal Congress want a Muslim leader to head for poll-bound Kolkata.

Mohsina Kidwai has some more time to complete her Rajya Sabha term. Yet, left leaders can’t stop monitoring her movements these days.