Posted by: N D Sharma on: February 29, 2012
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan’s — and his colleagues’ and bureaucrats‘ — hunger for money has become insatiable. There are scandals galore in the national rural employment guarantee scheme implementation. Roads are in bad shape. Health services have fallen apart. There is massive corruption in the electricity purchase. There is no effective check [...]
Posted by: N D Sharma on: February 20, 2012
The day Uma Bharati’s candidature for Charkhari in Uttar Pradesh was announced, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan had a long sigh of relief and his coterie held a quiet celebration in the evening. The next day the chief minister called up the Sadhvi and promised to go over there and campaign for her [...]
Posted by: N D Sharma on: February 15, 2012
The criminal investigation department (CID) of the police, at least in Madhya Pradesh, has been used for decades as the dumping ground for the politically inconvenient high profile criminal cases. When a judicial commission, for instance, found the involvement of then chief minister Arjun Singh in the mysterious murder of a government driver, his name [...]
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