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CAPLOOKS
Grand Delusion
 Delhi:
With the prime minister finally scotching all hopes of Mamata Banerjee
rejoining the NDA, the shrill Bengali (paper) tigress can go back to BJP
bashing. This also ends a silly drama, the playwrights of which were some
of Mamata's lieutenants in Kolkata. They spread the word among friendly
city journalists that Sudheendra Kulkarni, joint secretary in the PMO,
was in regular touch with "Didi", calling her frequently to
ensure a smooth return. BJP leaders were mystified. Nobody wanted her
back, they said. Planted stories and selective leaks notwithstanding,
Mamata is back to square one.
Cyber
Scrap
Mumbai: Maharashtra's political battles
have floated into cyberspace. Months after senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari
floated a website, mithaichor.com, detailing alleged corruption scandals
of the ruling Congress-NCP Government, he finds himself under watch by
the Mumbai Police's nascent cybercrime cell. After a complaint from the
alliance partners, the police are reading up the IT Act to verify whether
the contents of the site amount to cyberspace misuse. Gadkari is now planning
an expansion, Tehelka style.
Not
Quite Cricket
Raipur: Ajit Jogi wants to be everything
in Chhattisgarh: chief minister, PCC president, president of the state
cricket board and president of the Chhattisgarh Olympic Association (CGOA).
And it appears that in everything he wants to do, he has to contend with
V.C. Shukla. Unfortunately Shukla, life president of the IOA, punctured
his plans on a very simple premise. To get elected to CGOA, Jogi had to
be president of any state-level sport association of any Olympic discipline.
Nobody told him that cricket was not an Olympic sport.
Speaking Of Trouble
 Chennai:
Why was former AIADMK chairman K. Kalimuthu reluctant to take over
as Assembly Speaker? Seems someone told him that in the past many speakers
were beheaded. But his fears were allayed by Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha
who said it happened only in the old days in England. "In a democratic
set-up like ours, it cannot happen." Enough to make Kalimuthu beam.
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