Delhi Confidential: Going All Out - The Indian Express

For a self-confessed cash-strapped party, Congress is certainly leaving no stone unturned to make Rahul Gandhi's first public event after a return from leave — a rally against the Land Acquisition amendments — at Ramlila Maidan on Sunday a success. The party has started issuing radio spots — an unusual move when there is no election in sight — to publicise the rally. The spots in Haryanvi-accented Hindi slam BJP for "taking away" what Congress gave to the farmers and how it was the "loudmouth" who misled them.

THE MUSLIM FACE
The CPM, which in its ongoing party congress has laid substantial emphasis on development of minority communities, is likely to see the induction of a Muslim face in its politburo. The party congress will elect a new politburo by the end of the week. While the rest of the politburo is expected to remain unchanged, there are two vacancies which need to be filled up. Party leaders say the toss up for one of the places would be between Lok Sabha member Mohammed Salim and former MP Hannan Mollah. Both Salim and Mollah are from West Bengal.

TURNED DOWN
HRD Minister Smriti Irani's request for appointment of Sanjay Kachru as her OSD is already believed to have been turned down by the Prime Minister's Office. That's not the only appointment that has run into trouble. Her ministry had recommended the name of Anil Sahasrabuddhe for the post of AICTE chairman. The file was returned by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) with some queries. The HRD Ministry has now sent its response on those queries and a decision is being awaited.

LAUNCH TIME
After a considerable delay, the much-hyped DD Kisan, a channel exclusively dealing with farm-related issues, is all set to be launched now. The Information & Broadcasting Ministry appears to be holding on to the launch of the channel for a few more weeks to let it coincide with the government's first anniversary. Officials, meanwhile, maintain that the delay is because of the various issues that need to be ironed out before launching a new channel. DD Kisan, they say, will be a 24×7 channel and a lot of time and effort has gone into procuring content that can enable it to be a 24×7 channel.

COSTLY BREAK
Answering the nature's call proved too costly for a television cameraperson at the AICC headquarters on Friday. Having set up his camera to cover the AICC briefing, the cameraperson, to his horror, found his camera missing when he returned from a loo break. Interestingly, the theft took place when a press conference was on and the hall was crowded with reporters. Incidentally, the camera was of Congress's Malayalam television channel Jai Hind. A complaint has been filed at the Tughlaq Road police station but there is still no trace of the missing camera.

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