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Journalism of Courage
Even though Union Law Secretary B A Aggarwal is technically on leave till the end of this month before he joins as Member,Central Administrative Tribunal,Chandigarh,on January 1,the Appointments Committee of Cabinet has passed an unusual order giving additional charge of the department to Legislative Department Secretary P K Malhotra for three months with immediate effect. Normally,even if a retiring officer proceeds on leave just before his retirement,the next appointee doesnt take office till the formal completion of tenure.
In no hurry
Minority language
The Congress may have projected it as consultations with minority communities for the partys manifesto but the AICC made little effort to hide who its focus group was. It issued a press release not just in English and Hindi,as it usually does,but also in Urdu. Given the fact that representatives of other minority communities like Sikhs and Parsis also attended the consultation meeting,the ruling partys priorities seemed quite clear.
War on words
Soon after taking over as BJP president early this year,Rajnath Singh had decided to do away with the system of core group,an informal group of the party top brass modelled on Congresss group. The party Monday decided to shed another Congress nomenclature for its electoral campaign. An informal meeting of partys central election management committee is learnt to have agreed not to use war room nomenclature and agreed to use campaign office for its Lok Sabha campaign management centre at the party headquarters.
