Keeping a checkEven the powerful Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath does not have a completely free hand. However, on May 19, it was announced that a UP-based IAS officer, Shashi Prakash Goyal, would be Yogi’s principal secretary. ShahenshahAt Amit Shah’s luncheon meeting with senior Delhi print media journalists on the third anniversary of the Modi government last Sunday, he was the cynosure of all eyes. A Pakistani officer asserted that a 30-year-old would not be so “bewakoof (foolish)” as to come all the way from India to meet a man in the interiors of Pakistan whom she barely knew. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis organised the function for Minister of Road Transport and Shipping Nitin Gadkari when he entered his 61st year last week, in Nagpur.

Source: Indian Express June 03, 2017 19:52 UTC