RJD launches official website

The RJD finally has an official website — www.rjd.co.in. fake website earlier embarrassed the party as it hailed Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi’s son Tejaswi Yadav as the yuvraj (prince) of the organisation. Senior RJD leader and MP Ram Kripal Yadav had to explain that the website was not “official”. Yadav, however, tweeted about the official website. The official site, as expected, has photographs of Lalu and Rabri. There is a photograph of Yadav and the state party chief, Ramchandra Purbey. “Pictures of the Leader of the Opposition, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and MP Jagadanand Singh do not feature in the website. Mercifully, there is no photograph describing Tejaswi as the yuvraj,” said an RJD leader. “But this is how I suppose websites of one-man parties are made,” he added. The critic would be happy to know the plight of the official website of the JD(U). “It remains incomplete and has not been updated for quite some time,” said a JD(U) leader.

Durbar reminder

Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi recently asked the chief secretary to re-issue the circular, asking all district magistrates to be present at weekly janata durbars after an RTI activist of Masuahri complained to him that the Patna district magistrate (DM) never attended the durbar. The officer deputed an additional district magistrate instead. Modi had a talk with the chief secretary and recalled that the state government had issued a circular to all the DMs 20 months ago to be personally present at the weekly janata durbars. He suggested that the chief secretary should reissue the circular. “The DMs followed the circular for a couple of weeks and than fell back to the method of deputing an officer there. When it comes to reminders, the chief secretary may have to reissue scores of earlier circulars. This is not the only one he DMs have not omplied with,” said a enior IAS officer.

Thin line of difference

B>A woman sought a minister’s help after her daughter was allegedly abducted by a youth. But he refused. “This seems to be a clear-cut case of romance. Your daughter has eloped with a boy and you are filing a case of abduction,” the minister said, refusing to intervene in the matter. “After several complaints of abduction turned out be elopement cases, there is a threat of even genuine kidnapping cases being mistaken as elopement,” said a police officer.

Wrong appeal

Some youths owing allegiance to the students’ wing of the JD(U) allegedly appealed to a minister recently to help them get through a competitive exam for a government job. “If you expect me to help you in cheating in the exams, I will not help you,” said the minister, asking the youths to study. The youngsters returned dissatisfied. “The students coming to ministers expect them to manipulate results in their favour. When Lalu Prasad was the railway minister, a group of students associated with the RJD asked him to help them out in the railway recruitment exams. As Laluji was explaining how to deal with multiple choice objective questions, one of the youths said if they had to study to compete in the exams they would not have come to him,” said a senior politician.