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    • Coomi Kapoor Tags : coomikapoor, Mamata Bannerjee, Azhagiri Posted: Sunday , Jun 28, 2009 at 0212 hrs

    Now Bhattacharya seems to have had a change of heart, even if his party chief has not.

    Selecting the best

    Probably no minister was as methodical in selecting his private secretary as Home Minister P Chidambaram. The Home Ministry put out the word that the minister was looking for a suitable candidate and some 20 IAS and IPS officers applied. A dozen were shortlisted and Chidambaram spent five minutes interviewing each candidate. He finally selected M Siddique, an IAS officer who graduated from IIT.

    Chidambaram’s OSD, Safi Rizvi, an IPS officer is an IIM-Ahmedabad graduate. Earlier in the Finance Ministry, Chidambaram had also shown a marked preference for officers with a solid institutional background which includes such prestigious institutions as IIM, IIT or Delhi’s St Stephen’s College.

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    Innocent ministersBy: G.Dwarakanath | 29-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Minister Alagiri's puzzled looks when he was told of fertilizer security is not a strange happening. There was a minister, Chennagiramiah, in the K.C.Reddy ministry in the old Mysore State, way back in the forties. He was a good and noble but a very innocent man who was the butt of many jokes, most of them real ones. Once he was travelling in a car from Bangalore to Mysore and the vehicle suddenly stopped midway. The driver tried to do something but was not successful. He told the minister he was helpless because there was no screw driver. An angry minister told him "Why did you not tell me beforehand. I would have brought him also along". He thought the screw driver was someone like the car driver. There are many more such jokes, many of which have been stolen and passed on as Sardarji jokes.
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