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Food Packets for VIPs
Bhubaneswar: Orissa Chief Secretary D.P.
Bagchi is likely to receive free breakfast food by post soon-mango kernels.
The food packets follow his recent remark that the kernels are nutritious
food; an ill-timed observation, considering that 19 people in the state
have recently died of suspected food poisoning, reportedly after eating
gruel made from mango kernels. If Bijoy Mohapatra, president of the Orissa
Gana Parishad, has his way, other brass in the state too will soon have
to eat the much talked-about seed. The kernels have been neatly stitched
up in small packets and are being sent to the state's VIPs with "love
from the hungry tribals".
Ringing In The Tabs
 Patna:
The old order changeth. Within a week of the cabinet reshuffle,the phones
of over 200 Telephone Advisory Committee members in former telecom minister
Ram Vilas Paswan's hometown Hajipur were disconnected for non-payment
of dues. Knowing his generosity, the new coal minister may now want to
give them coal instead.
Sell It To Bal?
 Mumbai:
Congress chief ministers are a harassed lot: they have to meet an inexhaustible
demand for money by the All India Congress Committee general secretaries
in charge of their states. Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh
has all but thrown up his hands. He was so exasperated recently that he
told his bosses in Delhi that they could raise money by auctioning his
office. Partymen say his reaction is justified-AICC Treasurer Motilal
Vora, who is also in charge of the state, visits Mumbai almost every week.
And he doesn't like to return empty-handed.
Sweet Success
 Lucknow:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh has developed a sweet fixation.
Not because he has given up khaini or because the sweets have been sent
by his daughter in the US. It's because the poll agency he hired predicts
a handsome victory for the BJP under his leadership in the assembly elections.
"Now I am feeling relaxed," he says, popping another sweet into
his mouth.
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