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A minister  absconds in MP, as a court issues a warrant for his arrest in connection with a murder case NK SINGH MP’s Minister of State for Happiness Lal Singh Arya is not a happy man. He is a fugitive, on the run from the law. A court in Bhind, his home district, issued a non-bailable warrant for his arrest last week. The judge has asked the police to arrest him and present him in the court where he is wanted in connection with a murder trial. The police are trying its best not to arrest him. The prevailing wisdom in BJP, the ruling party that he represents in the state assembly, is that Arya is innocent and he should avoid his arrest, as long as he can. For, an arrest means his imminent ouster from the ministry. So, Arya has gone underground, or at least that is what the police would like us to believe. All this running around, naturally, does not make Arya a very happy person. Last heard, the Happiness Minister was seen visiting the CM secretariat in Bhopal after t...

Some Ministers dazzle MP with their brilliance NK SINGH Alice was lost in wonderland. Kusum Singh Mahdele is lost in Twitterland. You may not have heard of the lady. She is a senior cabinet minister in Madhya Pradesh Government. Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to use social media, she has taken to twitter like a duck to water. She is a natural. Often irreverent, never boring, she gives as good as she gets. Once the minister informed a polling site that its questions were “idiotic”. After she received flak for mistakenly congratulating fellow politician Kailash Vijaywargiya for getting Nobel Peace Prize, she brazenly tweeted: “What has Kailash Satyarthi done for MP’s children? Even children here do not know.” It is a pity that her twitter handle, @ikusummahdele, has only 855 followers, for she is, frequently, vastly entertaining. Mahdele, BSc, LLB, expresses her opinion on everything under the sun, from politics to diplomacy and from Mother’s Day to vide...