HEAR-SAY

New Delhi grapevine snippets

for publication on Sunday January 30, 2011

Thanks

R Rajagopalan

Delhi

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MK Alagiri celebrated his 60th birthday before 

Karunanidhi in , by tying Mangalsutra to his 

wife for second time.(sashtiabthapoorty)

MK Stalin and Selvi were present,. But not Kanimozhi

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A senior CWC member from north India was 

full of praise for Union Home Minister

Chidambaram. The senior Congress leader stated

that Chidambaram will be remembered in history for 

3Ts. (Tiranga, Telangana and Thomas(PJ)

Other leaders had a boisterous laughter on this cheap joke.

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Government is yet to allocate Residential accommodations

for two Vigilance Commissioners Garg and Sri Kumar.

are staying in guest houses.

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Robert B Zoellick Chairman World Bank convyed 

his appreciation to Finance Minister Dr Pranab Mukherjee 

and felt proud to tell him that he had interactions with the

two prospective Prime Ministers. Pranab da was 

taken back. Much attracted by Nitish Kumar performance

and the second is the immense knowledge of Rahul Gandhi

on rural development. Zoellick also stated that the

guidances from Jairam Ramesh Green Minister

and also from Pulok Chatterjee the Executive Director

of World Bank.

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Rahul Gandhi spent one hour with the Chairman World Bank

Robert B Zoellick without fanfare in media, discussed

future rural development and right to information. 

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2011 calendar of Parliament of India was designed by

Meira Kumar Speaker of Lok Sabha. Artistic works around

the corridors were taken as the main theme of the calendar.

Each month had the best selection. For next year 2012

Meira Kumar decided to have a theme of outside view of

12 select parliaments of the world including Sri Lanka and 

Pakistan. 

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Sushma Swaraj is believed to have engated a private 

media relations agency to project her image as shadow

prime minister. They are now tweeting her one liners.

She dictates the tweets to 'control room'  in New Delhi. 

Face book and Orkut are now full of BJP leaders.

certain disadvantages are also to be faced in digital media 

relations. One question was on B S Yedurappa. But no

answer from Sushma.

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