The number of text messages to reporters on crime-related developments from the director-general of police has increased significantly after Abhayanand took charge from Neel Mani, who started the trend of sending short texts to scribes when he headed the state vigilance department. Neel Maniji used to send two to three text messages everyday. During Abhayanand’s tenure, it varies between eight and 10. Neel Maniji used to be selective in sending the short texts. Now short texts on petty crimes are also being sent,” a police officer said. When Abhayanand took over charge from Neel Mani, he assured reporters of continuing with the tradition of sending text messages to reporters. “But Abhayanand appears to have faster fingers than Neel Mani,” he added. The allotment of the JD(U) ticket to the newly wed avita Singh for the bypoll in Daraunda Assembly seat in Siwan district has political circles talking about the importance of wives in Bihar politics. Kavita is the newly wed wife of Ajay Singh, the son of former MLA Jagmato Devi. He is facing two dozen criminal cases. “The JD(U) must have realised the importance of wives and forced Ajay Singh to marry if he wanted the party ticket to remain in his family,” a leader of the RJD said. The JD(U) leaders were not amused. “The RJD does not have the moral right to talk about wives of political leaders getting ickets. It made Rabri Devi the chief minister,” a JD(U) MP said. Since the entry of Rabri Devi in politics, the number of better halves of dons entering the elected bodies has increased ignificantly. “The dons who are in jail but have MLA wives can only hope that their better halves remain under their shadow,” a enior politician said. People appear to be onfused over the location of Sitab Diara, the place from where BJP leader L.K. Advani’s rath yatra against corruption would start. Some politicians and even reporters eclared that Sitab Diara, the native village of Jaya Prakash Narayan, is in Bihar. “But it is actually in Uttar Pradesh’s Balia district. The demand to transfer the village to Bihar was rejected by the Trivedi Commission in the 1960s,” a former MLC said, stressing that JP’s karambhoomi is Bihar but his native village is in Uttar Pradesh. The onfusion, remarked nother elderly persons, is because of a river’s changing course. Whenever the fuel prices are hiked, the political parties not in power in the Centre are expected to criticise the move. But an RJD leader was upset when he saw Lalu Prasad justifying the recent fuel price hike on an electronic news channel. Lalu stressed that if the prices of fuel are not revised, the petroleum companies would suffer a huge loss. “It was another politically wrong statement at a time when everybody was criticising the move. Laluji is still behaving as if he is a member of the UPA-II government. Somebody should keep reminding him that the UPA no longer onsiders our party as its ally,” the upset party leader said.
Saturday, 04 October 2025
