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[email protected]Fortune’s favourite
SHARAD PAWAR HAS always claimed that he
was not superstitious. But a memory he shared
recently at a public function indicated otherwise.
In 1977, when Pawar was industries minister in
Maharashtra, he visited the Bhimashankar Shiva
temple in Pune with his colleague Dattatreya Valse
Patil. They spent the night there. When everyone
was asleep, Pawar felt something crawling on his
body. He got up and saw a snake moving over his
legs. He woke Valse Patil up. To Pawar’s surprise,
Valse Patil was overjoyed. Apparently, a reptile mov-
ing across one’s
body was a good
omen. As requested
by Valse Patil,
Pawar performed
a puja in the morn-
ing and returned
to Mumbai. In the
following ten days,
dramatic develop-
ments took place
in Maharashtra
politics, which cul-
minated in Pawar
becoming the
youngest chief min-
ster of the state.Protocol play
DEFENCE MINISTER NIRMALA SITHARAMAN and
Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani
were the last to get on the dais at the BJP’s Diwali
milan in Delhi. The only vacant seats on the stage were
the two to the left of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
seat. Irani, who sat first, left the chair next to Modi for
Sitharaman. Though the defence minister urged Irani
to take the other seat, she declined.Slippery slope
THERE SEEMS TO BE
no stopping the gaffes by
Tamil Nadu ministers.
Forest Minister Dindigul
C. Srinivasan was recently
explaining at a public meet-
ing in Madurai what the
government had done to
check the dengue outbreak
in the state. “Chief Minister
Edappadi K. Palaniswami
sent Deputy Chief Minister
O. Panneerselvam to New
Delhi,” he said. “OPS met
prime minister Manmohan
Singh and brought experts
from AIIMS to the state to
tackle the dengue spread.”
The crowd was not surprised
by the slip of tongue; they
seemed to be used to it.