Waiting for the buzz to return
With candidates for over 400 Lok Sabha seats announced and campaign picking up, BJP headquarters now wears a deserted look as hardly any senior leader is present there. Only a few BJP panelists on news channels are seen hanging out with TV reporters. BJP media cell head Anil Baluni is away in Uttarakhand where he is contesting from the Pauri Garhwal seat. Most of the leaders who wanted to hop on to BJP bandwagon have done so, though a few more are said to be in the pipeline. This is just the lull before the buzz returns again, claim insiders.
Daughter Vs Son of JDU Ministers
Daughter and son of two JDU leaders, both ministers in Nitish Kumar government, are likely to challenge each other in elections. Bihar Cabinet minister Ashok Choudhary’s daughter Shambhavi is LJP (Ram Vilas) candidate from Samastipur. Another minister Maheshwar Hajari’s son Sunny has joined Congress and is likely to contest against Shambhavi.
Unqualified Surgeon
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde’s son Shrikant is a doctor by profession. But the CM claims that he too has performed ‘surgery’ despite not being qualified for it. Speaking at a Nagpur event, he said, “I may not be adoctor, but I have conducted a major operation, 2.5 years ago.” Apparently, he was referring to the operation to split Shiv Sena