Through the third eye
As the campaign for the elevation of late YSR's son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy as CM became louder, the Congress central leadership played a trump card to buy the much-needed breathing space in Hyderabad.
By ET Bureau |
Sons-in-waiting
As the campaign for the elevation of late YSR's son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy as CM became louder, the Congress central leadership played a trump card to buy the much-needed breathing space in Hyderabad.
AICC managers were a worried lot when party in-charge of the state Veerappa Moily brought home the message that the Jagan camp was 'showing the numbers among the MLAs' to argue their case. A senior leader, finally, got into action by whispering into the son's ears that he should learn from Rahul Gandhi, who is willingly waiting even as partymen were lining up to take him to the PMO right from the word go.
The message had an immediate sobering effect on the ambitious young leader ��� who is seasoned enough to know that the future in the party lies in following the style of the future leader. So Rosaiah can take the CM's chair for now, if only to keep it warm.
Sharing the split
With the Congress beating around the Maharashtra bush, keeping the NCP guessing about its seat-sharing plans, the political plot has certainly thickened.
Unlike in the past, the Congress wants the NCP to agree in advance that the post of the CM as well as some key portfolios will be reserved for it along the lines of the UPA pact in Delhi.
The AICC doesn't want a repeat of 2004 which saw the NCP 'giving up' the chief ministership only after wresting some plum portfolios. With Raj Thackeray set to split the BJP-Shiv Sena votes again, and as rumblings continue within the Pawar camp, the Congress thinks it's time to return the compliment.
Assets of communism
The PB move, reported in a Malayalam daily, has already created some excitement in the faction-ridden Kerala party unit ��� as it comes in the thick of state party boss Pinarayi Vijayan moving the Supreme Court against the CBI charge-sheeting him in the multi-crore Lavalin scam.
Clouting it out
The BJP has seen another of its prominent state leaders being cut to size due to inner party wrangling. Once a high profile minister known to have direct access to then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lucknow's Lalji Tandon failed to get a party ticket for his son Gopal Tandon for the ensuing assembly by-elections.
Tandon with his clout within the party had hoped to help his son's political debut from the Lucknow-West assembly seat he has nurtured for decades. But the purge of Vajpayee-Advani followers in the BJP seems to have hit his plans.
Many aver that Rajnath Singh, just like cutting challengers down to size at the centre, is also ensuring that no leader in his home state gains too much clout. And thus, Tandon's plans came undone.
As the campaign for the elevation of late YSR's son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy as CM became louder, the Congress central leadership played a trump card to buy the much-needed breathing space in Hyderabad.
AICC managers were a worried lot when party in-charge of the state Veerappa Moily brought home the message that the Jagan camp was 'showing the numbers among the MLAs' to argue their case. A senior leader, finally, got into action by whispering into the son's ears that he should learn from Rahul Gandhi, who is willingly waiting even as partymen were lining up to take him to the PMO right from the word go.
The message had an immediate sobering effect on the ambitious young leader ��� who is seasoned enough to know that the future in the party lies in following the style of the future leader. So Rosaiah can take the CM's chair for now, if only to keep it warm.
Sharing the split
With the Congress beating around the Maharashtra bush, keeping the NCP guessing about its seat-sharing plans, the political plot has certainly thickened.
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While it is common sense that the Congress would cite the NCP's poor LS poll show to argue that Pawar's party should relinquish claim on some of the 121 seats it contested in 2004, the real AICC agenda is different. Unlike in the past, the Congress wants the NCP to agree in advance that the post of the CM as well as some key portfolios will be reserved for it along the lines of the UPA pact in Delhi.
The AICC doesn't want a repeat of 2004 which saw the NCP 'giving up' the chief ministership only after wresting some plum portfolios. With Raj Thackeray set to split the BJP-Shiv Sena votes again, and as rumblings continue within the Pawar camp, the Congress thinks it's time to return the compliment.
Assets of communism
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The reported decision of the CPI-M polit bureau (PB) to place a resolution at the next central committee meeting saying that all party leaders and office bearers should declare their personal assets is meant as a major step towards greater in-house probity. The PB move, reported in a Malayalam daily, has already created some excitement in the faction-ridden Kerala party unit ��� as it comes in the thick of state party boss Pinarayi Vijayan moving the Supreme Court against the CBI charge-sheeting him in the multi-crore Lavalin scam.
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While the Pinarayi camp says its leader will come out with "flying colours" in the asset test, many in the V S Achuthanandan camp feel the PB should also commission an independent agency to verify the accuracy of some 'strategically important declarations'. Incidentally, the warring factions agree on one critical issue: there is no need for the state party unit to declare its assets! Clouting it out
The BJP has seen another of its prominent state leaders being cut to size due to inner party wrangling. Once a high profile minister known to have direct access to then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lucknow's Lalji Tandon failed to get a party ticket for his son Gopal Tandon for the ensuing assembly by-elections.
Tandon with his clout within the party had hoped to help his son's political debut from the Lucknow-West assembly seat he has nurtured for decades. But the purge of Vajpayee-Advani followers in the BJP seems to have hit his plans.
Many aver that Rajnath Singh, just like cutting challengers down to size at the centre, is also ensuring that no leader in his home state gains too much clout. And thus, Tandon's plans came undone.
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