As speculation continues over who the BJP will choose as its Chief Ministers in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh, there are indications that the party may name its observers to the three states by the end of Friday, reports Vikas Pathak. Speculation about who the CMs would be intensified even as the Union government dropped ministers Pralhad Singh Patel, Narendra Singh Tomar, and Renuka Singh who were elected in the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The observers, after being named, will travel to the respective states to oversee the meetings of the BJP legislature party where the CMs will be chosen. In Chhattisgarh, there is a buzz that the members of the Sahu OBC association (samaj) had written to the BJP leadership to appoint Arun Sao the CM and that there was pushback against choosing Renuka Singh. The delay in the announcement of the new CMs, despite the emphatic wins, has set off speculation that the national leadership could be looking for major changes factoring in the imperative to maintain the clean sweep in the Lok Sabha elections. In an almost bizarre turn of events, a BJP MLA’s father has alleged that his son was taken to a resort and sequestered there by former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s son Dushyant Singh. The Raje camp has dismissed it as a conspiracy to malign her image, reports Hamza Khan. Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the 69th national conclave of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad at the DDA Ground in Burari, Delhi, from 11.30 am. Lalduhoma to take oath Zoram People's Movement leader Lalduhoma will be sworn in as the new chief minister of Mizoram on Friday. Several other ZPM leaders will also take oath as ministers, according to officials. Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Lalduhoma and the ministers. Lalduhoma, who once served as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s security in-charge, will be the first Mizoram Chief Minister not from either the Congress or the Mizo National Front (MNF). Both those parties ruled the state since its formation in 1987. Congress to analyse results Chhattisgarh's outgoing CM Bhupesh Baghel and state Congress president Deepak Baij will attend a meeting in Delhi on Friday to review the party’s poor performance in the just-concluded Assembly polls in five states. Days after Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath questioned the fairness of electronic voting machines, "Why should they feel so offended? They get offended, which means there must be something. It will come up before you if the issue is taken up further,” PTI quoted Baghel as saying on Thursday. Parliament agenda Lok Sabha Ethics Committee member Aparajita Sarangi, the parliamentarian representing Bhubaneswar, is scheduled to table the report recommending the expulsion of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra. The report was earlier listed in the agenda of the Lower House for December 4 but was not tabled. Last week, at the customary all-party meeting convened by the government, TMC leaders demanded a discussion on the report before any decision is taken to expel Moitra from the House. The tabling of the report could lead to stormy scenes in the House. “If the report is tabled, we will insist on a full-fledged discussion as the draft was adopted in two-and-a-half minutes,” PTI quoted BSP MP Danish Ali, one of the panel’s members who opposed the report’s recommendation, as saying. To be published later today: The Neerja Chowdhury Column. — With PTI inputs
