Delhi Confidential: Rajeev Chandrasekhar takes a break from work for a spiritual journey | Delhi Confidential News,The Indian Express
Rajeev Chandrasekhar took a short break from work to be on a spiritual journey — he went to climb the Sabarimala for a darshan of Lord Ayyappa.
Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar took a short break from work to be on a spiritual journey — he went to climb the Sabarimala for a darshan of Lord Ayyappa. Chandrasekhar, who has been visiting the shrine in Kerala for 25 years — he missed it in the last two years due to the pandemic — made the trek on Thursday.
The 58-year-old Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology said he took an hour and 30 minutes to complete the climb. Although the minister was there for his annual prayers, devotees did not leave him without clicking mandatory selfies with him.
Change in the air: A day after reconstitution of the BJP Parliamentary Board and the party’s central election committee, the talk in party circles on Thursday was on the subtle change the lists have thrown up. According to BJP insiders, the party’s general secretary (organisation) is usually an ex officio member of the Parliamentary Board and another general secretary would be designated its secretary — late BJP leader Ananth Kumar played this role in the panel when it was constituted in 2014. General secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh has been appointed secretary in the new BJP Parliamentary Board. He was mentioned as “sachiv” (secretary) in the CEC list, too. Another noticeable change was that both panels do not have the Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha — Piyush Goyal at present.
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