Inside Track: What’s behind Trinamool’s latest move in UP?

Mamata Banerjee

Banerjee ka gussa

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is eager to pacify Mamata Banerjee, fearing the Trinamool Congress is nibbling into the Congress vote share exterior West Bengal. However Banerjee is in no temper to reply. She continues to be fuming over Rahul Gandhi’s behaviour after the TMC victory in Bengal. Rahul didn’t phone to congratulate Banerjee and took two days to place out a tweet. Nonetheless, when Sonia Gandhi requested Banerjee to come back to Delhi to speak a couple of attainable grand alliance, the Bengal Chief Minister agreed to fly down. What Banerjee didn’t cut price for was that Rahul would casually stroll into the room in the course of the assembly, although she had not been knowledgeable of it. Rahul didn’t keep for lengthy, and the following day, Congress Lok Sabha chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury issued a press release attacking the TMC for unleashing violence in Bengal. Banerjee believes each of Rahul’s protégés within the state, Chowdhury and Abdul Mannan, goal the TMC considering the Congress could be higher off aligning with the Left in Bengal. Even in UP, Banerjee has given the Congress one thing to consider. The TMC’s newest recruits embody Kamalapati Tripathi’s grandson Rajesh Pati and his nice grandson Lalitesh Pati.

Order of Ordinance

On the premise of an ordinance, the Ministry of Personnel final week put out a considerably complicated notification amending guidelines of the Central Authorities of India in public curiosity. In sum, it put a cap of two-year extensions for the Secretaries of Defence and Dwelling, Director, Intelligence Bureau, and Secretary, RAW. Nevertheless tenures for administrators of investigative our bodies, such because the CBI and Enforcement Directorate, it mentioned, may be prolonged as much as 5 years. Clearly those that body intelligence and coverage require much less continuity than these in command of investigation, and may flip the screws on these whom the federal government needs.

Clear Favourites

Extensions are all the time obtainable for favoured officers within the Modi authorities. Some examples: Director, Enforcement Directorate, S Okay Mishra was lately granted one other time period, earlier than his three-year tenure ends this month. Director, Intelligence Bureau, Arvind Kumar; Dwelling Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla; and RAW Secretary Samant Goel have all received extensions. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das is on a second three-year tenure. One other favorite, P C Mody, has received three extensions as Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes. He was lately appointed Secretary Basic of the Rajya Sabha and the incumbent, Dr P P Okay Ramacharyulu, who had lower than three months in workplace, was made adviser to the Rajya Sabha Chairperson. Ajit Kumar, Chairperson of the Central Board of Oblique Taxes and Customs, who’s to retire this month, expects an extension. Pankaj Kumar Mishra, head of the Monetary Investigation Unit for 5 years, will proceed within the publish for one more two years as his place has been upgraded to Further Secretary rank. Ajay Tyagi, Chairperson of the Securities and Trade Board of India (SEBI), was granted an 18-month extension after finishing his time period in August final yr.

Sure, no, possibly

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was livid when introduced three pre-poll Uttar Pradesh surveys, diametrically completely different from each other. Modi felt the BJP was blowing up cash on meaningless surveys. Nevertheless, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed supreme confidence that the occasion was successful. Normally in UP essentially the most vocal in expressing voting preferences are Brahmins, who’re way more influential in impacting voter developments than their precise numbers. However, in a departure, the Brahmins, seen as indignant over the CM “selling” his personal Thakur neighborhood, are comparatively silent. The anti-BJP voters, whether or not farmers, minorities or Yadavs, seem essentially the most outspoken. The BJP’s hope is that finally will probably be the silent voters who will determine the result. Adityanath has granted a number of advantages to the folks, from grains to cooking oil, and a one-time Rs 1,000 dole for these within the BPL class since Might this yr. The particular perks had been to assist out after the havoc of the Coronavirus pandemic and can proceed until Holi subsequent yr.

Humiliating defeat

At a Haryana Congress autopsy assembly, Bhupinder Hooda and Kuldeep Bishnoi practically got here to blows over the humiliating outcomes of the latest bypolls in Ellenabad constituency. Abhay Chautala of the INLD retained his seat, whereas the Congress candidate misplaced his deposit. Bishnoi felt that the Congress misjudged in assuming it might trip to victory by backing the farmers’ motion. In Haryana, the Congress is mainly a non-Jat occasion, he identified. By the way, the BJP misplaced the by-election narrowly and polled extra votes than within the 2019 Meeting elections, because of the overwhelming help of city voters.