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Journalism of Courage
While the newly appointed Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan owes his ascension to his father, the late S B Chavan, outgoing CM Vilasrao Deshmukh has become the latest Congress leader to suffer on account of an offspring. If the ever-resourceful Deshmukh found it hard to justify taking along actor-son Riteish and filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma on his first visit to the terror-struck to Taj Hotel, AICC general secretary Margaret Alva had lost her vaunted position in the party earlier following her outburst over the denial of ticket to her son Nivedit in the last Karnataka Assembly election. Former external affairs minister Natwar Singh had to suffer an unceremonious exit from the Congress after his son Jagat Singh8217;s alleged involvement in the oil-for-food scam in Iraq, while ex-Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal had to leave the Congress and launch a new political outfit following suspension of his son Kuldeep Bishnoi for anti-party activities.
