The minister146;s man

While the Cabinet Secretariat may have questioned Arjun Singh8217;s choice of second candidate Dilip Kumar Bandhopadhyay as IIM-Lucknow director, the minister is said to be unfazed. In fact, he is said to have reiterated that he wants none other than Bandhopadhyay. While the search committee had chosen Prof Devi Singh, who just finished a five-year term as director of the institute, the minister has been pushing Bandhopadhyay8217;s case. The latter heads the Bhopal-based Indian Institute of Forest Management and is reported to be close to Arjun Singh8217;s son.