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To avoid the anti-incumbency factor, the Congress high command may change the chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi. Nine States, most of which are ruled by the Congress Party, are going in for Assembly elections next year. Keeping this in account, the rank-and-file led by Madhya Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Subhash Yadav is lobbying for Jamuna Devi, a tribal, for the chief minister’s post in the State; Subhash Chopra, a Punjabi, who has consolidated his position within the Congress fold in the national capital is considered as a potential replacement for Sheila Dikshit. In Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh too may have to leave his chair before the elections. Govindrao Adik, a firebrand Congress leader, is considered as the best bet for the Assembly elections in the State. However, among these three CMs, it is Digvijay Singh whose position is shaky and predictable. Starvation deaths in Bilaspur are cited by Subhash Yadav and his followers as the reason for Digvijay Singh’s head. They say that if the Congress high command does not remove Singh immediately then the party might have to face the wrath of the electorate. While in Delhi, the Punjabi lobby is determined to have Dikshit’s head. It is said that if R. K. Dhawan is made incharge of Delhi then Subhash Chopra’s chance to grab the hot seat of chief minister’s post may brighten. In Maharashtra, Deshmukh’s inability to check the simmering dissidence has caused consternation among the Congress leadership. Given this, sources say, a plan is afoot to appoint Govindrao as the Maharashtra chief minister in two to three months. Thus, the sword hangs above the heads of three Congress CMs .

Amarinder’s strategy
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh may have lost the gamble with Prakash Singh Badal in the SGPC election, but there is much in the SGPC politics which the wily Congress leader wants to contrive in coming days. If his strategy goes well according to plan, he may pack the SGPC lower rank officials with his loyalists in the next local body elections of the SGPC. The officials elected in this local body elections form the part of the electoral college that elects executives for the Sikh religious body. Keeping this in account, the Punjab Chief Minister has begun to actively campaign, though not openly, for candidates loyal to him. Already he has started visiting remote towns and villages. Ostensibly, all these visits are termed as official, but people
working closely with the whimsical Congress leader know what these official visits are. Undoubtedly, it is the never-say-die attitude of the Captain that seems to egg him on to be mentally prepared to drive Badal and his cronies out of SGPC politics for the good of Punjab. If this happens, the Captain will not only decimate the potential challenge to his authority in the State, he will also avenge the humiliation he suffered at the hands of the former Punjab chief minister who had once denied him an Assembly ticket despite keeping him awake for the whole night at his residence in 1987.
Real or feigned illness

Is tiredness and fatigue the real reason for the illness of Gujarat caretaker Chief Minister Narendra Modi? Though media reports suggest that physical
exhaustion due to his gaurav yatra and campaign-related activities for the past two months has been the cause for his sudden illness, sources
say something else about the reason for the Gujarat CM’s ill health. The IB reports that the BJP could win only 50-60 seats out of the total 182 Assembly seats in Gujarat has shaken Modi so severely that he has no
option but to lie on the bed. Inter-party wrangling within the BJP has already taken a heavy toll of the poll strategy of the party with dissidents publicly
threatening to sabotage the chances of many BJP candidates in the elections due to be held on December 12. However, another version is that "illness" is part of Modi’s strategy to deflect pressure exerted on him by Dy Prime Minister L. K. Advani and other senior BJP functionaries on the Harin Pandya issue. BJP leaders are worried that if the situation orchestrated by the CM is not corrected immediately then the party will have to suffer incalculable damage.

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