POLITICS

Political upheavals in NCP: History repeats itself

There is a saying, 'history repeats itself'. Congress senior leaders P A Sangma, Sharad Pawar and Tariq Anwar were expelled from the Congress in 1999 after they raised the banner of revolt against Sonia Gandhi over a foreign-born citizen issue. These leaders, who were in rebellion against Sonia for being Prime Minister, had floated a new party Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Now, NCP’s rebellious top leaders posed a threat to the party by joining hands with the BJP-Eknath government in Maharashtra. The NCP faced the same rebellious streak as it did with Congress.

New inductions in Cabinet of the poll bound states

During the next Cabinet reshuffle  one new face from Chhattisgarh,two new faces from Madhya Pradesh and two new faces from Rajasthan  are likely to be inducted. Sukhbir Singh Badal may get a berth from Punjab.