Coomi Kapoor has been a journalist for the last four decades. Her forte has been political reporting. She has witnessed the shifting power equations in the capital -- from Indira Gandhi’s regime to the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party. She is presently contributing editor to The Indian Express. Earlier, she worked for the newspaper as chief reporter, special correspondent and editor, Delhi. Coomi has worked in several publications in different capacities. She was principal correspondent, India Today, editor news, Sunday Mail, bureau chief, Indian Post and political editor, Illustrated Weekly. She has been writing a political diary in a lighter vein since 1985 and her syndicated column was carried by many newspapers. She was also stringer for The Times, London, and columnist for The Star, Malaysia
‘Congress’ heads BJP – an embarrassing secret from Swatantra Dev Singh’s past
Descendants of most of the old Congress families in UP are now in the BJP
An embarrassing secret from his past for the BJP’s new Uttar Pradesh chief, Swatantra Dev Singh, is that his parents had actually named him Congress Singh. The first name ‘Congress’ was hastily changed once Singh joined the BJP. If it is a bit confusing that the former ‘Congress Singh’ now heads the BJP in UP, it is also true that descendants of most of the old Congress families in the state are now in the BJP. Late prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s grandson, Sidharth Nath Singh, is a minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet. Former UP chief minister Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna’s daughter, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, is a BJP MP. The grandson of two Congress stalwarts, Rajendra Kumari Bajpai and Shyama Charan Shukla, Harsh Vardhan Bajpai, is the BJP MLA from Prayagraj; and former UP CM Vir Bahadur Singh’s son, Fateh Bahadur Singh, is a BJP MLA and a favourite of Adityanath
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