Babus face the ire of netas

Transfer of officials from Palampur and Dharamsala MC last week has become talk of the town in Kangra. An HAS officer was abruptly transferred from Palampur to a remote place for disobeying the diktats of a powerful politician of the ruling party. In Dharamsala the officials of Smart City project were shunted out and additional charge was given to officials from the constituency of another power politician from Kangra. The talk of the town was that the officials rather than administrative considerations were transferred to meet personal agendas of some ruling party politicians.

Tough task for Shukla

Congress Working Committee (CWC) and AICC in-charge Rajeev Shukla is faced with the arduous task of getting all the senior Congress leaders in the state to work towards one single objective of defeating the BJP. With personal ambitions of these leaders resulting in inflated ego, the task seems more difficult than Shukla would have thought. Though there was a galaxy of senior Congress leaders at the Jan Akrosh rally held at Chaura Maidan one could hear the party’s own leaders say there was no ‘akrosh’ (anger) among the party workers. Can’t blame the party workers when the senior leaders are more focused on saving their chairs than working towards galvanizing the party cadres, quipped a party worker from Kangra.

Sycophancy at its best

Sycophancy appears to have become second skin of the politicians as they are seen practising it at every probable platform. Even a press conference convened at Solan by the Pradesh Congress Committee, president, Kuldeep Rathore, saw its apt demonstration when he spent a good part of his introductory address naming more than a dozen leaders present there. The newsmen were left wondering whether he was addressing his fellow politicians or the media as the list was unending. With no local poll issue having been raised ahead of the key municipal corporation poll for which he had specially come, the visit was nothing more than a pay lip service which failed to enthuse the aspiring candidates.