well, an enlightened friend has promptly informed us that this short story is part of an already published book penned by Mr Narendra Modi.

NARENDRA MODI'S NEW AVTAAR.

This man sure dons several hats. No , I amnt talking about the cowboy one that he wore at the River Front recently in Ahmedabad.

On Sunday morning, it was Narendra Modi the author. He wrote a short story which was published in a local daily. The time frame is "five years ago when entire Gujarat was fighting against corruption". The protaganist fights against "sarkaari hinsa"(government violence)and wants to establish "lokshakti". just a day after a fiery speech, he dies.

The story talks about a young idealist who is being USED by politicians. The story is told in first person by an Ankit. It is about his friend, an idealist who fights corruption.

The ideology driven Mahesh fights for values. He gives fiery speeches. The young guy "fights against corruption in Gujarat five years ago", for values and ideology. He is used by politcians and dies in a police firing. Netas queue up. In the story, the author(ie Mr Modi) says how journos are desperate to make Mahesh the Martyr and are scrambling for news. Newspapers want their paper to sell more copies with this the story of this martyr!!!!

Then Ankit visits the widowed mom of Mahesh on his first anniversary. There is no hulla gulla. No netas have turned up.

In a good sequence of self address, the author has embedded a good conversation in half real half fantasy mode. IT talks about how desperate the politicians was to ensure that Mahesh's cremation is finished fast(a task completed sort of mundaneness).

The end is the best part of the story. He gives an ironic twist reminiscent of the O Henry style.

So till now we had Narendra Modi the chief minister as Narendra Modi the teacher, Narendra Modi the CEO, Narendra Modi the poet, Narendra Modi the common man, Narendra Modi the non corrupt doer, Narendra Modi the able administrator, Narendra Modi the Hinduvta Mascot, Narendra Modi the development Messiah, Narendra Modi the face to fight terrorism, Narendra Modi the youth icon.

welcome Narendra Modi, the author.

nb: I liked the story. The idea and concept but most of it, the narrative style and the end. Poignant.

What about you?

who is the best candidate for the CS post?

Lets forget personal prejudices, political affiliations or industrial connections.

Lets go by merit.

Who do you think best suits the BILL for the Gujarat Chief Secretary's post. Tell us who and why.

We have told you before that you need NOT put your email or name to comment. just put any fake name and email. and no, we are not related to Google or BLOGPOST so they dont tell us the records.

In short, its absolutely safe to post anonymous comments.

so go ahead.......

D N Pandey's Bihar Connection helping Gujju MPs?

Mr D N Pandey, 85 batch Gujarat cadre officer has recently been posted as principal secretary to the Loksabha Speaker Meira Kumar. Previously he was personal sec to union MOS tribal affairs, Tushar Chaudhry.

The grapevine is that Bihar connection seems to have work in favour of Mr Pandey who finds himself in this imp post.

So Gujarat MPs have begun networking and are seen more than frequently in the Speaker's Office.

In this case, they feel that Gujarat connection will help them to get closer to the Speaker and get added importance in the House.

ques ans in Assembly:nothing much will be missed?!

While the Congress is crying hoarse over the question answer being scrapped, it shows one more thing: the Congess’ weakness.

Here is one comment that we recd which we thought is fit for a blog posting, what do you say????

Come on, you can even post comments as anonymous, we don’t get to know who you are , just write to us!

Yet another coup de grâce, from Mr Modi.
We the people of Gujarat agree that question hour is significant.It is the basic right of the Opposition party to ask questions on Government activity, policies and administration.

However this is no longer the case with the current opposition party.What happened at the last Assembly session is a mockery of the question hour and to the "aam aadmi" a waste of money by the state opposition.A melodramatic "black out" and individual power plays in the name of right to information. The "aam aadmi" was harrassed by Opposition's histronics and the mock assembly show. Is this how Gujarat's politician should behave?

Instead of using the Q-Hour to raise important issues the Opposition used this to raise personal profiles and justify self-importance.

So once again Mr Modi - thank you from "aam aadmi"

post retirement assisgnment.

Mr Prakash Shah who retired as secretary GERC in August, has been appointed sec in the state Election Commission. This is a post retirement assignment.

Mr Shah assumed office on Monday, Hi s tenure will be for two years.

Congratulations Prakash bhai!

Modi "still" being coaxed to take over as BJP president

thats what a Delhi paper has been saying and said today.

BJP leaders want Modi as party chief

Kumar Uttam | New Delhi

A section of senior BJP leaders have stepped up efforts to convince Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to take over as the party president as Rajnath Singh's term comes to an end early next year. The move comes in the backdrop of reports that near consensus seems to have developed around Maharashtra BJP chief Nitin Gadkari as Rajnath's successor.

Sources revealed to The Pioneer that party's core group leaders have spoken to Modi in the last 48 hours to see if there could be a last minute 'change of heart' and he agrees to take up the assignment. Many leaders in the BJP have been of the opinion that Modi as the BJP president would be a big morale-booster for the party cadre, who are demoralised after a series of electoral debacle. The argument in the favour of Modi has been that he is the organisation's man having a mass appeal and finger on the pulse of people whereas Gadkari is believed to be a low-profile leader hardly known outside Maharashtra.

After elimination of several 'probables', BJP leaders had zeroed in on Narendra Modi and Nitin Gadkari for the top job, but Modi was hesitant in 'switching over' to national politics at this juncture. Assembly poll in Gujarat is due in December 2012 and Modi wants to stay back in the State till then to ensure that the party sails through the election.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Modi are also understood to have discussed party's and Modi's 'future plans' when the former visited Gujarat last month.

Eventually, it was decided in a meeting between Bhagwat and Advani that a consensus should be built around the name of Gadkari as Modi's concerns about Gujarat were 'genuine' and he needed some more time in the State before logging on to national politics.

But, senior leaders in New Delhi feel it would be in the larger interest of the party if he took over as the new president and continued to keep a watch on the State politics.

"Leaders are not opposing Gadkari as BJP president, but most of them believe Modi would be a better choice and his appointment would be in the party's interest," says a BJP leader privy to the developments in this matter.

Asked if Gadkari was going to be the next president, Bhagwat had said in Pune on Saturday, "His name is among those discussed by BJP leadership. But we have not recommended anyone. We have only advised BJP leaders that the new president should be able to restore the organisational structure."

Meanwhile, Rajnath Singh has asked observers to speed up the process of the organisational elections so that chiefs of State units are elected by mid-December paving the way for election of the national president by year end or early in January.

The Secret Diary of Narendra Modi.

Happy Weekend Reading. Enjoy.

When I recently came down with swine flu (strangely, just after my Russia trip), the whole of Gujarat was praying for my speedy recovery. But what inspired me most was the state police’s quick reaction in nabbing those responsible for passing on the flu. The CID, at last count, had rounded up 1,654 mosquitoes and subjected them to third degree interrogation. As many as 1,600 (54 died in police custody) have confessed in writing that they had injected the H1N1 virus into my body (of course, it’s another matter that swine flu is transmitted from humans to humans). Anyway, the confessions proved that mosquitoes can indeed be “persuaded” to sign confessional statements, provided the pen is Mont Blanc. The CID also took extreme care to arrest Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist Anopheles in equal number to prove their secular credentials.

Not one to be kept out of the action, the state intelligence also did its bit. They rounded up 1,400 hapless swine and have extracted confessional statements to show a CIA hand. Sample this revelation from an accused referred to in the report only as Pig 5: “I and two others caught the train to Patna from where we crossed the border into Nepal. In Kathmandu, we were met by a CIA operative who indoctrinated/trained us in the mechanics of spreading the disease in India. We were told our target should be prominent Gujarat bureaucrats and politicians including Shri Narendra Modi....” Ironically, Pig 6 also made a similar confession. For that matter, so did Pig 1400. Rather strange, isn’t it?

Incidentally, there were even plans to send a special police team to Russia to see if it was all a Commie conspiracy. But the trip was scrapped when doctors pointed out that I might well have contracted the virus before my foreign trip. Finally, when it became clear to the investigators that pigs don’t fly and can’t spread swine flu, they rounded up 100 human suspects afflicted with a common cold and guilty of sneezing all too frequently in public. All of them will have to prove that they did not come within striking distance of Narendrabhai Modi. Meanwhile, my health secretary, Ravi Saxena, also came down with the virus and has been quarantined. So too have colleagues who came in touch with him. In fact, there has been a rash of h1n1 cases involving bureaucrats which has led my senior police officers to float many conspiracy theories.

Well, that apart, my time in quarantine was well spent. I took out and dusted my footwear collection (150 pairs) and re-read some of my poems. I even penned a few verses which I would like to share with friends. So here goes:

“Swine flu
You caught me too
But remember H1N1,
you caught the wrong one
Modi is not the one to stun
The Mian across must catch your pun....”

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(as imagined by Ajith Pillai) OUTLOOK.

more on transfers....

thanks to all those who got in touch with us with more dope on the transfers. here is something else:

Something more on transfers:

Collector Pradip Shah of Bhavnagar, Dilip Rawal of Surat and V. P. Patel of Jamnagar have been taken off their fiefdoms and dumped into non consequential postings at the Sachivalaya.

Ahmedabad DDO A J Shah has managed to get posting as Surat Collector. Blessings of the Lady in Power of Ahmedabad jurisdiction worked?

D G Zalavadia who shot into limelight for bowing down to the Chief Ministers feet and seeking his blessings was removed by Election Commission as Amreli collector during Loksabha elections in early part of the year but now he is accommodated as collector Bhavnagar. Maybe he truly got blessed.

officers of 2005 batch: Banchha Nidhi Pani(assistant collector Anjar now DDO Junagdadh), Harshad Patel(asst collector Ankleshwar now DDO Patan), P Bharathi(asst collector Dabhoi now DDO Valsad), Ranjit Kumar J (asst collector Sabarkantha now DDO Bhavnagar) Vikrant Pandey(Asst collector Palitana to DDO Narmada) and Shalini Agarwal(estranged spouse of Rahul Gupta, another officer) who was under secretary GAD planning has been moved as DD0 Tapi.

promotion files were kept in hold for clearance for over 18 months. Okay one and half years late but better late than…

Collector Kutch R R Varsani who had developed unprofessional and unethical proximity to a top Industrial house with business interests in ports, infrastructure and exports has been shunted out and posted in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation as Director, JNNURM projects.

Rahul Gupta, 2004 batch officer, who was DDO Anand has got posting as DDO Ahmedabad. Gupta has a knack of impressing his top officers. His wife Shalini however has a different tale. She has filed a police complaint against him for harassment and dowry torture. God knows, whats actually transpired…

Two promotee officers of 93 batch: N Chhibber and D J Dharia have been superceded while Arvind Joshi of the same batch has been promoted as secretary.

we are trying to get theory and logic on why no municipal commissioner except Jamnagar has been transferred.

We would like to hear from your end also.

All info that we get is highly classified and never leaked or passed on...so just write to us.

come on, all of us live in a democracy, don't we?

We can agree to disagree and debate......

Beyond the News.

In a democracy, it is important that bureaucrats get transferred and over hauled. The transfers also show Modi government's grip on the bureaucracy.

There has been a massive round of IAS and IPS transfers. Dfacto tries to give you in a nutshell, the essence of each officer/transfer.

· This is the first time, our friends tell us, that 99 IAS and IPS officers have been transferred at one go.

· Mr Girish Murmu was in Delhi and Amit Shah in Amereli when the transfer orders came in.

· Gujarat Chief Minister, bureaucratic grapevine, says made good use of the time that he got while he was down with Swine Flu. Gave him a lot of time to think and reflect. The transfers, besides Mr Modi’s personal touch also bear an impressively evident touch of chief secretary Mr D Rajagopalan.

· Mr Kuldeep Sharma becomes the first IPS officer to head the Sheep and wool department of the Gujarat Government. The one time dreaded officer, that the underworld was so wary about has been shunted to a department considered non consequential for his abilities and competence.

· Mr B. K Sinha who is back from a deputation at the Centre has been given Ports, which is a good department. Grapevine says he was expecting to be made the managing director of GNFC but still ports is a good posting.

· Mr H K Dash also has been given Narmada and water supplies. Now, a lot of work in this department will be done as per political diktats, it is being speculated.

· Mr V. S Gadhvi has got a jackpot. According to people close to him, his consistent performance has been rewarded. As Managing Director of GMDC, he is now in the super slot. He is the first Gujarati officer to be given this post. His predecessor Mrs Vijayalaxmi Joshi was a direct recruit and 80’ batch. Mr V S Gadhvi is a promote, having come up in the cadre and is ’87 batch. A good feat for Mr V S Gadhvi.

· Mr R K Tripathy. Known as top three competent IAS officers of Gujarat has been literally shunted to agriculture department. Ofcourse, agriculture minister Dilip Sanghani is lucky so Mr Tripathy will now herald in innovations in the agriculture department too. However, Mr Tripathy’s tremendous knowledge of project engineering will be missed in Narmada Nigam. He has to be credited for creating systems and bringing canal works on the track which had been in an animated suspension. He also created a scientific method of land acquisition and tried to break a cartel of contractors and engineers. However of late, a couple of ministers aided by a few bureaucrats had gone openly against him.

· Mr S Chandrashekhar, retires next month. He however had to be moved out for sheep and wool department to pave way for Mr Kuldeep Sharma. Now, Mr Chandrashekhar will be at SPIPA and retire from there.

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· The forever amiable R M Patel has got a good department. That is what others say. The man never complains whatever department he gets, From labour to Panchayat and rural housing, he will be the same happy officer.

· R. S. Saxena: And you thought he did good work when the Chief Minister got swine flu? We also actually thought he did a commendable job when the honourable chief minister was down with swine flu. We are as clueless as him about his transfer. Ofcourse science and technology, Mr Saxena isnt a bad department. But still why was he shunted out? Grapevine gossip tells us a section deems his department responsible that the CM getting swine flu news could not be kept a secret. Ofcourse Mr Saxena also got swine flu. Another gossip loving officer says Mr Saxena has been transferred because the pseudo name given to honourable chief minister blood sample(the name Ramesh) was not appreciated.

· Mrs V L Joshi: the high profile officer after a series of high profile postings now finds herself shunted from Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation to Medical Services and Education. From being managing director of GUVNL to principal secretary energy and petrochemicals to GMDC and now to medical services and education: well, every one says it’s a real bad posting. But then social sector too deserves high profile officers isn’t it? The grapevine says the government was not happy about two things with Mrs Joshi: her proximity to an industrial house and her proximity

· Mr A Bhattacharya who is back from deputation has got a fairly good posting too as commissioner, land reforms.

· Mr Rajesh Kishore’s posting from food and civil supply to health secretary is also being viewed as a reward posting.

· Mr S Jagdeesan: Energy was a good department and its getting better for this officer. His new posting in Narmada water resources , Kalpasar is seen as a moving forward for this officer. Will the work he initiated in the energy department for converting all stations into environmental friendly gas based carbon credit earning power station go on?

· India’s longest serving officer on one post Mr D J pandian has finally bid goodbye to GSPC. There was a joke that Mr Pandian will not go till KG basin gas comes to Gujarat. Now as secretary energy and petrochemicals, he will continue ofcourse to weild the same power, rather more.

· Mr J P Gupta continues the stint of getting good postings. From commissioner VAT to commissioner Transport. Good going!

· V Thiru is back from Australia and will now be the new Information commissioner. His posting is being looked forward saying he would instill lot of creativity and innovation in the information department. He will be the man to watch out for and a lot of good is expected.

· Mr Atanu CHakravarty has been moved out from Gujarat Maritime Board to secretary finance. It is a good posting but still it is being talked that cash rich GMB was a better

Posting. Grapevine says he has been eased out as he was not very positive about investing in GSPC.

· H J Haider has been moved from Transport as CEO Of GUDC. It is a good posting as he can now show his creativity and build a good GIFT.

· Tapan Ray: among the 80 IAS officers who have been transferred, his posting is being viewd as the most prized posting. Cash rich GSPC is a 30,000 crore empire. Ray will be the king and will he sing the same tunes that Pandian did?

· VIpul Mitra : After a controversy with SEWA regarding audit and accounts, Mr Mitra ahd got into mainstream.

· B B Swain: Nice well read low profile officer who has got a high profile posting as industries commissioner. This man will deliver much more than what is expectedof him. Vibrant Gujarat 2011 is sure to rock. He got to know of his posting when he landed in Bangkok where he has gone for a Training the Trainers course along with deputy commissioner S K Langha.

· Mukesh Puri: a refine man who came back from deputation about five months back has got a powrerful posting as special commissioner VAT and commercial tax.

· Mr Sujit Gulati industries commissioner has been made development commissioner. His non ending differences with the Chief Secretary is speculated for this posting.

· R Raj kumar from science and technology to civil supplies will mean more work. But it’s a good posting. One wonders what happened to his plans of joining central government’s unique Identity Card project with Nandan Nilekani.

· Pankaj Kumar: Good officer gets a good posting. After his CMO stint, the new GMB posting is a good plum posting.

All the best to all officers!

swine flu vaccine is more deadly than the swine flu!

Seems it has mercury which causes neurological disorders. Docs who have developed this say they wouldnt allow thier family or friends to use it.

here's a link that a friend sent it from the US.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4SmFxyust0&feature=related

Swine Flu panic in Sachivalaya

Amidst news that swine flu has "attacked" four senior bureaucrats, dFACTo has learnt that other than principal sec health Ravi Saxena and additional director of public health Paresh Dave, no other officer has tested positive for swine flu.

As per the guidelines quarantining is important and being done but that does not mean our entire Sachivalaya has been gripped with swine flu.

And for heaven's sake, lets not create a panic. A doc whos been treating VIPs says more ppl die of common flu in India than the Swine Flu.

Come on, SMILE.

Everyone often says this blog is tad bit too serious.....and that humor shld be, rather is an intrinsic part of life but we journos tend to take life too serious and perhaps sceptically.

So, when you get up in the morning, want you to smile...

read this NEWS ITEM sourced from the the web.

Vets in the US state of Iowa said a household cat had tested positive for swine flu - the first known case in the world of the new pandemic strain spreading to the feline population.The domestic shorthair, a 13-year-old castrated male, apparently caught A(H1N1) off its owners - two of the three members of the family had previously contracted the deadly virus. "This is the first cat that we are aware of with the pandemic H1N1,'' assistant professor of veterinarian microbiology Brett Sponseller said.

After ruling out most common causes of respiratory diseases, a team of university and state vets looked at the family history of the owners and guessed swine flu might be the cause. After five days of tests, their fears were confirmed.

Cats have previously been diagnosed with H5N1, a virus commonly known as bird flu that spread from poultry to humans, but this is thought to be a first for swine flu and has possible implications for the feared pandemic. Mr Sponseller said the danger of an infected cat spreading the A(H1N1) virus to humans or to other cats was unknown but didn't appear to be high.

The prevalence of the disease in the cat population was also unknown, but the vet said he believed more animals will now be tested

The cat owner, an employee at the Iowa vet school, insisted on anonymity and is not revealing the pet's name, Mr Sponseller said. His blood test has been done on pseudo name so the cat does not get discriminated when it later goes out to play in the neighbourhood, sources claimed.

Now, did you smile. If you didnt, at least dont blame us.

Have a great morning!!!!

our sympathies.....

Nope we arent talking about the Swine Flu. Our sympathies are with the Congress who is fighting within than fighting the BJP in Gujarat.

Recently, a group including Udesinh Baria, Manoharsinh Jadeja, Jitu Shah and Hasmukh Patel and some other Congress non entities met up.

Then, Naresh Rawal former Home Minister and Shankersinh Vaghela have ganged up.

Such futitle efforts to create pressure groups.

And here's more: Arjun Modhvadia was not invited at Taj for the Congress meeting. He sure deserved to be there.

And all said and done, Siddharth Patel aint bad. its just that circumstances are not supporting him or his party.

our sympathies to Gujarat Congress and one wishes that they stop bickering within themselves and gear up. Because that is the need of the hour.

Hell with Austerity: Congress leaders meet up at TAJ

A high-level Gujarat Congress leaders’ meeting in Gujarat has landed in a soup following reports that the leaders met and dined at Hotel Taj in Ahmedabad at a time when the party has been advocating austerity measures.

Gujarat Congress chief Siddharth Patel’s dinner meeting on Monday night has ruffled a few feathers with his detractors claiming that he should not have opted for a five-star hotel at a time when the party is propagating austerity.

With this, pressure to change the Gujarat Congress president has increased.

Mr Patel, son of late chief minister Chimanbhai Patel is also being alleged of being authoritative and not being a team person.

After the recent defeat of the Congress in the Assembly byelections, pressure to replace him with someone more "people-oriented and with a team spirit" has mounted.

Mr Siddharth Patel had convened a meeting on Monday night at the Taj to discuss the future of the Congress in Gujarat. Those who attended included three Union ministers from Gujarat — Mr Dinsha Patel, Mr Bharat Solanki and Mr Tushar Chaudhry — besides Gujarat’s leader of the Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil.

About a dozen other senior leaders also attended the meeting.

No leaders were ready to comment but admitted that it was wrong for the party president to convene the meeting in a five-star hotel. Though Mr Siddharth Patel was not available for comments, a source closed to him said that the State Congress president t was forced to convene the meeting at the five-star hotel because several members who had been invited by him to deliberate upon the future of the Gujarat Congress were not keen to meet up at the Government Circuit House and had complained about the "mundane government vegetarian" food available there.