So wherever Chhattisgarh Congress president Charan Das Mahant goes while campaigning for Folding Umbrellas Suppliers the party in Bastar, he never forgets to say "We will not let sacrifices of our leaders who were killed in Maoist ambush at Jiram Ghati go in vain. On October 3, he announced at Jagdalpur to set up life-size statues of the late Maharaja at various places in Bastar apparently to resurrect the anti-Congress sentiments among the locals. He could win only one election. A wag, however, pointed out that there was another reason behind Ms Banerjee’s decision: the colour of Writers’ Building. The Congress appears hell bent on making the recent massacre of its key leaders at Jiram Ghati in Bastar district on May 25 by Naxals, a major poll issue to generate sympathy among voters.

 During Left Front rule, due to overcrowding, some government departments in the administrative headquarters such as labour, health and industry were shifted to different locations in the city.Being a backward leader, the party leadership ignored his antics for as long as it could. This explains the name of the building.He spoke too muchThe removal of senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Asrey Kushwaha from the post of general secretary of the party and then as chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Remote Sensing Centre may not make much of a difference to the party but it has left several scribes depressed. Whether the veteran Congress minister was motivated by Gandhian values or the rather more mundane ones we have come to associate with the political class today, we cannot say.

 I don’t follow the Mahatma. It originally served as the office for junior officers of the East India Company who were known as writers. Not for the work he does, but because of his eccentric sartorial taste and startling pronouncements.He named a welfare scheme for the poor Mandira Awas Yojana after his wife, Mandira Roy, an MLA, rather in the manner of the Indira Awas Yojana, named after the grande dame of Indian politics. Coming across a policeman, who was obviously part of his security detail, Mr Roy generously handed over some cash to the bemused cop too. "The historic state secretariat is a red-stoned edifice and Ms Banerjee is simply averse to the colour red," he said.