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IMPORTANCE OF BEING SADHNA SINGH<br />
Sadhna Singh, wife of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj<br />
Singh Chouhan has been in the news recently for all wrong<br />
reasons. After the mudslinging over her in MP Professional<br />
Examination Board Scam now, has come up the issue of Ujjain<br />
district administration bending backwards to extend protocol and<br />
unhindered access to her at the famous Mahakal temple in Ujjain. On<br />
July 28, Sadhna, visited Mahakal to offer prayers on the occasion of<br />
Hindu holy month of Shravan. Her car was allowed by officials into the<br />
temple premises while several officials from Ujjain escorted her during<br />
her brief stay at temple town. This at a time when Mahakal temple<br />
draws maximum rush of devotees on Shravan Somwars and all access<br />
point to the shrine is sealed and vehicles are not allowed in.<br />
What is surprising is the fact that the same zeal among temple<br />
administration and Ujjain district officials were missing when Rajasthan<br />
Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje came calling to the temple a week later<br />
on August 4.<br />
DOING AWAY WITH SKULL CAP!<br />
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who had<br />
carefully crafted a very secular image among the minorities over the<br />
years suddenly made a turnaround, this Eid. After having donned the<br />
skull cap on all such occasions in the past, Shivraj was seen greeting<br />
Muslims at Idgah in Bhopal without the skull cap. He accepted one presented to<br />
him, but politely slipped it to one of his supporters. Is it the Modi affect?<br />
For Chouhan has been donning the skull cap and had been very vocal about it<br />
unless, Modi’s statement that wearing skull cap amounts to appeasement came<br />
earlier this year. At that time Chouhan was hailed as a poster boy – the moderate<br />
face – among young BJP leaders, as Modi was just the party’s prime ministerial<br />
candidate. However, equations have changed fast and today Modi is in full control<br />
of the party and the government. So, a cornered Chouhan, already facing flak over<br />
the scam in medical entrance and recruitment tests, thought it prudent to do away<br />
with the skull cap, at least for now.<br />
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