Delhi Confidential: Gracing The Occasion

For Union Minister and RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary, Wednesday evening was a proud moment and his political friends made it memorable too as they, cutting across party lines, turned up to see the performance of his 16-year-old daughter Sahira, who is a budding Kuchipudi dancer. But it was Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar who surprised everyone with his presence. He had special words of appreciation for Sahira who has been a disciple of Padma Bhushan couple Raja and Radha Reddy. Also present were Union Minister Piyush Goyal, BJP leaders Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Manoj Tiwari, Nishikant Dubey, Dushyant Singh and R P N Singh, and Congress leader Rajiv Shukla. Most of them came with their families.

A Different Day

A day before witnessing some rancorous scenes during the meeting of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, panel Chairman Jagdambika Pal had celebrated his 74th birthday with the members. TMC member Kalyan Banerjee allegedly broke a glass bottle on the table and hurt himself during the panel meet on Tuesday. Pal later alleged that Banerjee “threw the broken bottle at him but he was saved because of God’s kindness”. On Monday, a cake was ordered by the panel members to celebrate Pal’s birthday in Parliament. At the centre of the cake-cutting ceremony was Kalyan Banerjee.

Justice Clock

Central Delhi’s Bhagwan Das Road, which houses the Supreme Court, has a new landmark — a large digital board that displays statistics on pending cases in the top court. The board, called the ‘Justice Clock’, designed by the Law Ministry’s Department of Justice is already on display in nearly 15 high courts and several district courts. Public display of mounting arrears is viewed as a tool that will incentivise measures to tackle pendency.