In the 1980s, Chhagan Bhujbal, the then Shiv Sena’s lone MLA in Maharashtra, coined a famous term that has stuck in the minds of many people of that time: ‘bhukhandache Shirkhand’. In other words, he was accusing then chief minister Sharad Pawar of licking up a lot of land (more than 200 plots in Bombay, in fact) that had been de-reserved by him for unknown reasons. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 6, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, CAG report, chief minister Sharad Pawar, Congress, Gopinath Munde, hindustan times, hiv Sena, Kripashankar Singh, NCP, news, Nitin Gadkari, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Singly political, Sonia Gandhi, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
For all the trolls who go from blog to blog on the Hindustan Times website and label all its editors as Congress stooges or paid journalists, I finally know where they are getting that from. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Amar Singh, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bangaru Laxman, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, BJP leaders, Bombay Congress president, bribe, cash-for-vote, Congress, hindustan times, Kripashankar Singh, Manmohan Singh, news, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Samajwadi Party, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Sushma Swaraj