heard so in corridors of power

Heard so

NEW DELHI GRAPEVINES

for publication on Sunday May 22, 2011

Thanks

R Rajagopalan
Delhi

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Suspense continues over Governors Conference slated in June.

Will it be held or not? Invitations are yet to be despatched.

Governors Conference means massive exercise for Union Home

Ministry and President Estates to coordinate two days event.

PMO is silent on this. Not indicated date

and time to President Secretariat. Reason, Sardar Surjit Singh Barnala

Sardar Iqbal Singh and Pandit Hansraj Bharadwaj hitting the headlines.

Controversy over roles of Governors.

Governors in North Eastern States had already taken fortnight 

holiday and resting in Kerala and in Tamil Nadu.  But the real issue for President

Secretariat is. Selection of Doyen of Governors who had put in longer years

as Governor. The only one is S S Barnala. 

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Drinking water pipe burst on Wedensday near 24 Akbar Road, the headquarters of AICC and also

the chiefs of armed forces. But the worst affected VVIP is obviously the Vice President

bungalow. Water Scarcity emergency calls were made.Supply was restored after

quick response team arrived at the spot 

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D Raja CPI MP bad experience at the Jayalalitha swearing in ceremony. In the crowd

he lost one chappal. In an anger Raja threw out the other chappal too. Walked without

footware. Noticing it, Sarath Kumar Cine actor asked D Raja to travel in his car

and bought him fancy footware.

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Karunanidhi plans to resign as Chief of DMK, but pave way for MK Stalin

to be installed as Chairman of the DMK General Council presidium.

An emotional high pitch drama is slated to be enacted in Chennai on Monday

when the highest policy making body of DMK meets, after poll debacle.

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Best lighter vein joke. Who will be foreign secretary. A Sardar or a Mallu?

The tug of war is between Ranjan Mathai and Hardeep Puri. Both belong

to 1974 IFS seniority and both were born in 1952. PMO nor Foreign Secretary

want to express their view on selection process, as it involve two powerful

camps.

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New Delhi corridors of power is agog with speculation about

the increase of retirement age of Union Government employees

to 62.

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KM Chandrasekhar Cabinet Secretary is being tipped for the slot of Indian Ambassador

to United States of America. Though the retiring foreign secretary Nirupama Rao is also in

the race, the political leadership wants to give such a elated position to KM Chandrasekhar

as he handled meticulously the Nuke deal issues in Cabinet meetings further in Parliament.

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