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Mayawati gets bad press for cash garland, sacks her media manager
Indo-Asian News Service
Lucknow, March 18, 2010
First Published: 20:48 IST(18/3/2010)
Last Updated: 21:30 IST(18/3/2010)
Apparently upset at the bad press she received over the controversial
currency note garland, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on
Thursday gave marching orders to her close confidante and principal
secretary (information and public relations) Vijay Shankar Pande.
Besides the key position as head of her media management team, Pande
has also been stripped of the prime posts of additional cabinet
secretary and principal secretary to the chief minister.
Pande has been made principal secretary (health), so far held by
Pradeep Shukla, who has been appointed principal food secretary. Pande
is known to be close to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)'s Brahmin mascot and
general secretary Satish Chandra Misra.
Pande has been replaced by Shailesh Krishna, a one-time Mayawati
blue-eyed boy, who was shunted out of the chief minister's secretariat
not very long ago.
Krishna, who has played a long innings in the information and PR wing
of the Uttar Pradesh government - both under the Mulayam Singh Yadav
as well as Mayawati government - enjoys tremendous goodwill with the
media.
Pande shot to fame for spearheading a campaign launched by the state
IAS Association 13 years ago to identify the "three most corrupt IAS
officers".
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