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Tea For Trauma
 Delhi:
It's been two weeks into a fairly raucous monsoon session now but leader
of the Opposition Sonia Gandhi hasn't made it to the headlines. She has
been unusually quiet in the House. Partymen say the Congress chief withdrew
into a shell after the Opposition boycotted her tea party. Sonia has cancelled
all public engagements. However, at a dinner she hosted for party MPs
on Tuesday, she went out of her way to speak to each of them.
Party circles link her renewed PR to fewer visitors at 10 Janpath.
The Unkindest Cut Of All
Chennai: Soon after the arrest of DMK
chief M. Karunanidhi, the Tamil Nadu police organised village roadshows
with their own video clips on the incident. The Jayalalitha Government
wanted these to be screened in cinema halls. "That's the only way
to undo the damage done by the Sun TV footage," says an AIADMK leader.
But the Censor Board has had the last word. "People with all sorts
of political affiliations come to theatres," reasons the board, "and
screening the police video will only incite violence."
No box-office hit here.
The State Of Affairs
Bhopal: Congress leader L.P. Sahi, one
of the two-member team conducting a party inquiry into the Inder Prajapat-Manak
Agarwal shoot-out, was acerbic in his conclusion. "This must be some
sort of a record Congress history-two general secretaries involved in
a murderous assault. This has not happened even in Bihar," he told
journalists. Chief Minister Digvijay Singh cringed at the reference to
the eastern state-only a couple of minutes earlier he had fondly talked
of Bihar as his nanihal (his mother is from Bihar).
 Caught
Either Way
Thiruvananthapuram: Chief Minister A.K.
Antony was embarrassed when an opposition leader recently made public
in the Kerala High Court the notes of a cabinet meeting. When he ordered
a vigilance probe into the leak, bete noire K. Karunakaran said this amounted
to an admission of Antony's lack of confidence in cabinet colleagues.
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