Happy New Year Mitron!

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address the nation this evening, and according to reports, is expected to spell out the post-demonetisation roadmap.

This will be his second address to the nation since his announcement to scrap 1,000 and 500 rupees notes on November 8.

While announcing the landmark decision, he had asked the people to give 50 days for demonetisation and getting accustomed to a cashless economy. @pgurus

Angry Bird leaves the Nest.

The ruling Samajwadi Party seemed to hurtle towards a split just before assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav defiantly released a list of candidates for seats already allotted by his father and party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to others on Thursday night. His list of 235 candidates includes several party leaders who are close to Akhilesh and who did not make it to the party's official list announced a day before by Mulayam Singh Yadav. The rebels said they have been asked by the chief minister to go back to their constituencies and prepare to contest the elections. @pgurus

Is there a reservation quota for corruption?

The BSP chief had insulted Dalits,  BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad in a swift counter-attack. "Will your corruption be hidden in the name of Dalits?" said, also asking whether the huge amount of money deposited in her party's bank account was a "money conversion exercise."

Sources in the Enforcement Directorate have said that around 104 crores were deposited in a Union Bank account belonging to the BSP in the seven weeks since PM Modi banned 500 and 1,000-rupee notes to combat corruption and black money. At the same bank, 1.43 crores were reportedly deposited in the account of Ms Mayawati's brother, Anand Kumar, sources said. @pgurus

Only Dr Swamy can teach this kid a lesson...

The Metropolitan Magistrate on Monday dismissed BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s petition to seek documents from government departments and the Congress in the National Herald case. 

However, the Court asked Swamy to file the list of witnesses and gave him opportunity to file “appropriate” petition for summoning documents again during the trial, while terming his dismissed petition as “fishing inquiry” and trying to widen the scope of the case. @PGurus 

How to get TRP

Rahul Gandhi is apparently copying Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s political style. A month after Kejriwal made sensational bribe allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi Assembly, Rahul made the same allegation today in Mehsana, Gujarat. Rahul claimed that PM Modi received Rs 40 crore as bribe from the Sahara group over a period of six months.

Rahul’s allegation against Modi looks more like a political gimmick as he has not tried to approach any court on the issue for action against the PM. @PGurus 

Jallikattu In Tripura

The Tripura Assembly on Monday witnessed a bizarre scene during the house proceedings as a TMC legislator ran away with the Speaker's mace, stalling legislative business.

The incident occurred while the members were debating heatedly about the alleged "womanising" issue involving ruling CPI-M leaders.

The Congress and Trinamool Congress legislators had approached the Speaker's podium and started sloganeering against Forests Minister Naresh Jamatia.

All of a sudden, TMC MLA Sudip Roy Barman seized the Speaker's mace and ran away with it outside the house abruptly putting a halt to the proceedings.

Coming Soon... Nautanki in UP...

Lionheart Modi

Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to the people to support the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, asking them to bear the “pain” for “50 days” to help him deliver the “India of your dreams”. 

 I have only asked for 50 days. Give me time till December 30. After that, if any fault is found in my intentions or my actions, I am willing to suffer any punishment given by the country,” PM Modi said.

also warns of action against benami property holders

Dedicated Ramu Kaka of Congress...

Former IAF chief Shashindra Pal Tyagi claimed on Saturday that the Prime Minister's Office was party to the decision in 2005 to change the operational requirements of choppers for IAF's VVIP squadron, which allegedly resulted in AgustaWestland bagging the order.

Manmohan Singh was the prime minister at the time. 

and even in Manmohan Singh in the Coalgate scam is again in the spotlight.

Manmohan Singh name is almost in every case which happened in UPA tenure,not gandhi's. 

Opposition busy tickling the public

Don't mislead people...I want to ask Congressmen who claim people are facing problems how you turned the entire country into a jail for 19 months by imposing Emergency," he said addressing a rally in Ghazipur, adding it was done only to save the seat of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi after the Allahabad High Court verdict against her, and not out of any concern for the poor.

Prime Minister Modi told in Belagavi rally

Time Person of the Year

Donald Trump, the US President-elect who has been named TIME magazine's Person of the Year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins readers' poll.

TIME's announcement comes just two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the magazine's online readers' poll for Person of the Year 2016. He also won it in 2014, the year in which he was elected PM.

But the outcome of the readers' poll doesn't determine who becomes the actual Person of the Year. TIME's editors do that.

Shadow Bite

J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and one of India's most powerful and popular politicians, died late on Monday in a Chennai hospital, nearly three months after she was admitted there. She was 68.

Some of her loyalists have expressed their doubts and suspicions about the reasons which led to her untimely and unexpected demise. It is rare to hear that a patient suffering from fever and dehydration would be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Report

Didi in Dangal

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee opened another front in her battle with the centre on Thursday, objecting to the presence of Army soldiers at toll booths on national highways that run through her state, saying the state government's permission should have been sought.

"Is this a military coup?" she asked, adding, "even for a mock drill, the army has to take the state's permission, and they have not."

The Chief Minister spent the night in her office at the secretariat Nabanna, refusing to go home till the Army left.

Pappu Hack Ho Gaya

Hours after Congress vice-president Rahul 

Gandhi’s Twitter account was hacked, the party’s official account was also found to be hacked. Abusive tweets were posted on the Congress’s account @INCIndia earlier Thursday although those tweets were removed within 30 minutes. The party’s website inc.in was found to be hacked as well. also appeared that Rahul's Twitter account was hacked again and again.