"BIS BUYS OUT BAINS: AMARINDER PROMISES MEDIA MANDIKARAN BOARD IF VOTED TO POWER"

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"Amarinder famously wrote his own press notes as conceived and dictated to by his Media Advisor. I have heard that Bharat was "reasonably satisfied" with Amarinder's drafting skills and had once even sugested swapping of jobs between them, an offer which Amarinder had to politely decline, realising that writing press notes is one thing and getting these published quite another. It was at the latter art that Amarinder -- or anyone for that matter-- was no match for the rampaging media management skills of Sardar Chahal."



A few days back, I had invited inputs from media persons, officers, politicos, police personnel, real esate big players and men and women from some other high profile butlow paid professions, apart also from some low-profile and "highly paying though not highly paid" professions. I ahd requested them to please give me in puts on a piece I wanted to write on my predecessor in my present assignment. Not a single line has been recieved by me so far on the 'exploits and imploits" of Sardar Bharat Inder Singh Chahal, formerly Media Advisor to the then Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amaridner Singh.
Amarinder famously wrote his own press notes as conceived and dictated to by his Media Advisor. I have heard that Bharat was "reasonably satisfied" with Amarinder's drafting skills and had once even sugested swapping of jobs between them, an offer which Amarinder had to politely decline, realising that writing press notes is one thing and getting these published quite another. It was at the latter art that Amarinder -- or anyone for that matter-- was no match for the rampaging media management skills of Sardar Chahal.
Are people - including media fraternity -- still so scared of my great prdecessor that they don't want to commit themselves on anything concerning him. Or has BIS CHAHAL been written off even before I decided to write on him? Anyway, I find him an "exciting" subject to write about. And I repeat my request once again, this time hoping that the newsy manager of news would get written about.

And I assure everyone that my piece on BIS Chahal would be objective and free from any perosnal animosity or bitterness. ( I have already instructed the cops manning my gate any roly poly good humoured guest coming in with armfuls of gifts be allowed in without any frisking, especially without frisking the gifts.

I like Bharat Inder Singh Chahal for many things, his SantaBanta -- no, Santa Claus -- penchant for backing every pen with most expensive gifts being of special interest to me. If I have to be corrupted, then I would rather that it is done by the one man who knows how to "right-price" talent. Heere ki kadar to siraf johri he jaan sakta hai.
Was there a move to make him the Chairman of the Punjab "Media" Mandikaran Board during Amarinder regime?

And I humbly request my friends in the Fourth Estate, especially those in the "electric shock media" not to rush to print with half baked stories on BIS designs to turn me into some sort of a Trojan Horse in Akali ranks. I dread headlines like BIS BUYS OUT BAINS or BIS SET TO TRADE IN TROJAN HORSES. (My sole sense of relief here follows from the likelyhood that BIS probably has not yet heard of Trojan, though he has sure run horse trading mega project with elan. "But Trojan or Talwandi, horses will be horses" is likely to be the response of my 'friendly' predecessor.)