11-19-2005, 01:37 AM
Effect of Volcker
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>PM promotes Munshi & Oscar, shunts Jaipal </b>
Sanjay K Jha / New Delhi
Volcker cooked Soren's goose----- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wish to avoid a Cabinet expansion at a time when the political situation wasn't favourable appears to have prevailed on the Congress leadership which finally agreed to minor adjustments in the ministry to facilitate the smooth working of the Government. Â
Though several theories are being churned out as reasons for the cancellation of the scheduled expansion, top sources indicate the Prime Minister thought this wasn't the ideal time to bring in a new team. The Prime Minister didn't even agree to a minor exercise of filling up vacancies as he was keen to avoid the compulsion of taking back <b>Mr Shibu Soren at this juncture when the Volcker Report had already made the Government vulnerable</b>. <!--emo&
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In fact, the only major decision of giving Information and Broadcasting Ministry to Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi is also directly linked with the problems being faced by the Government and the Congress. <b>Mr Dasmunshi is probably the best person to exploit the office of I&B to tackle the "image crisis" that the Congress was grappling with. Party circles have always felt it didn't get positive media projections even after the change of regime in 2004.</b> <!--emo&:tv--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tv_feliz.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tv_feliz.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â [who watch doordarshan?]
<b>Mr Dasmunshi has the requisite experience, the expertise and the brazenness to aggressively serve the party's interests through the vital I&B instrument.His predecessor Jaipal Reddy was too much of a gentleman to do this job and he often sounded apologetic about his bold decisions.</b> While the party strongly believed Mr Reddy had failed to deliver, the minister too felt uncomfortable being constantly under pressure to deliver as per the wishes of different party bosses.
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Get a goonda as I&B minsiter. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>PM promotes Munshi & Oscar, shunts Jaipal </b>
Sanjay K Jha / New Delhi
Volcker cooked Soren's goose----- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wish to avoid a Cabinet expansion at a time when the political situation wasn't favourable appears to have prevailed on the Congress leadership which finally agreed to minor adjustments in the ministry to facilitate the smooth working of the Government. Â
Though several theories are being churned out as reasons for the cancellation of the scheduled expansion, top sources indicate the Prime Minister thought this wasn't the ideal time to bring in a new team. The Prime Minister didn't even agree to a minor exercise of filling up vacancies as he was keen to avoid the compulsion of taking back <b>Mr Shibu Soren at this juncture when the Volcker Report had already made the Government vulnerable</b>. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> In fact, the only major decision of giving Information and Broadcasting Ministry to Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi is also directly linked with the problems being faced by the Government and the Congress. <b>Mr Dasmunshi is probably the best person to exploit the office of I&B to tackle the "image crisis" that the Congress was grappling with. Party circles have always felt it didn't get positive media projections even after the change of regime in 2004.</b> <!--emo&:tv--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tv_feliz.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tv_feliz.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â [who watch doordarshan?]
<b>Mr Dasmunshi has the requisite experience, the expertise and the brazenness to aggressively serve the party's interests through the vital I&B instrument.His predecessor Jaipal Reddy was too much of a gentleman to do this job and he often sounded apologetic about his bold decisions.</b> While the party strongly believed Mr Reddy had failed to deliver, the minister too felt uncomfortable being constantly under pressure to deliver as per the wishes of different party bosses.
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Get a goonda as I&B minsiter. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->