Expensive watch doesn't miss Modi's eye!

August 01, 2015 14:49

Here is some grapevine from the corridors of Parliament:

Expensive watch doesn't miss Modi's eye!

Recently after a Union Cabinet meeting, a senior minister pulled up a colleague who wore a costly wrist watch of Swiss make which reportedly costs over Rs 4 lakh.

The junior minister was told that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had seen the watch during the meeting and that it was advisable he did not wear it again.

The shocked minister removed it once and didn't wear it in subsequent Cabinet meetings. Modi's roving eyes, it seems, do not seem to miss such "growth in one year".

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Modi's formula to silence Congress is working

At 10 am daily, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sets the agenda for the day in Parliament during a meeting with his five top Cabinet ministers.

On Friday, Modi's formula to neutralise the Opposition tirade against the government worked finally.

Sources say it was Modi who told Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu to ensure that Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan conducts the Question Hour even if the Congress MPs shout in the well of the House.

The Congress MPs kept shouting anti-government slogans, but the Question Hour continued.

Privately, Congress leaders now say that disurping Lok Sabha for over ten days will be a futile exercise.

A senior leader jokingly remarked that Monday onwards Congressmen will be supplied with strepsils and throat relievers.

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So who will be the 2016 Republic Day chief guest?

Unlike previous times when suggested names for Republic Day chief guest would come from the Chief of Protocol to the Foreign Secretary, now Prime Minister Modi alone finalises the name.

And this time, Modi seems to be looking at international leaders who have so far supported him.

The names doing the rounds are British Prime Minister David Cameron, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and French President Francois Hollande.

Modi will tweet his choice once the formal diplomatic drill completed.

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