Hi All, forwarded without comment....

jfrj =========================================== Leaving aside the fact that being a lady, she is susceptible to insinuations, the link below throws some light on this extraordinary relationship of a politician and a bureaucrat who belongs to a cadre other than the " Exclusive and Heaven Born " IAS .That the IAS lobby could do nothing to stop her, itself speaks volumes about the support she got from Pranab and people like Mukesh Ambani, for whom she is supposed to be supportive. Those who are more interested, may click on Appx C at the link below.

http://ariseasia.blogspot.in/2012/06/finance-minister-mukherjees-legacy.html

Fi(n)anc Minister Mukherjees Pauline legacy

Before Pranab Mukherjee even files nomination for election to the post of President, the news have been splashed all around for Mrs.Omita Paul, his Adviser in the Finance Ministry to the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Along with resignation of Pranab Dada, Mrs. Paul also submitted her resignation. This is an interesting tango. Mrs. Paul has been in news for all wrong reasons. She has been recently alleged for trying to promote her brother, Jitesh Khosla as next UTI Chief at an emolument of Rs. 4 crore per annum and in the process even keeping the UTI without any head for a year. She has been alleged to be instrumental in promoting her candidate, U K Sinha to the post of Chairman of SEBI to derive benefits for companies like Reliance and Sahara. Earlier also, she was in news for favouring her husband K.K.Paul who was elevated as Member of the UPSC after his stint as Delhi Police Commissioner. An amendment in the Section 10 (45) of the IT Act in the year 2011 was made to extend retrospective tax exemption to UPSC members from 20078. This covered the entire tenure of her husband as member, UPSC. There have been written complaints against her role in promoting corruption and

deriving benefits by some senior bureaucrats like K.Abraham, an IAS officer now working as Principal Secretary, HRD, State Government of Kerala, while he was in the SEBI Board. Inspite of so many complaints, she remain glued to Pranab Dada like chewing gum as ever and this chemistry will continue to ferment in President House if Dada gets elected through manipulations of electoral college members. Mrs.Omita Paul is an Indian Information Service Officer with no proven case of competence. Her rise can be ascribed to acquaintance with Pranab Dada in 1983 when she was posted as Director( publicity) in M/o Finance while Pranab Mukherjee was the Cabinet Minister. She was 35 years old while Dada was 46 years. Since then, the chemistry between two hasbeen exemplary. Herein is a tabular analysis about their stint in the government: Pranab Mukherjee
Jan. 1982Dec.1984

Omita Paul

Union Cabinet Jan. 1983- June, 1984 Director (Public Minister, Finance with Relations) additional charge of Ministry of Finance Ministry of Commerce and Supply June 1991Deputy Chairman, June 1991-May 1996 Officer on Special Duty May1996 Planning Commission Planning Commission Jan. 1993Union Cabinet May 1992- Jan 1995 OSD to the Commerce Feb.1995 Minister, Commerce Minister Union Cabinet Jan 1995- May 1996 OSD to External Affairs Feb.1995-May1996 Minister, External Minister Ministry of Affairs External Affairs Nov 2004 -26 OSD to Defence Union Cabinet June,2012 Minister,External 23 May 2004 - 26 Minister, Defence, Affairs , Finance June,2012 External Affairs, Minister Finance Minister ,

So, wherever Dada works, he is duly supported by Mrs. Paul. Dada is known as an encyclopedia himself. But, he cannot work without Mrs. Paul. Thus, Mrs. Paul is the indispensable adviser to Dada. May be she is India's Paul, the Octopus who has gripped Dada with her extraordinary gift of spin doctoring the corrupt practices and misconducts. Many puts the analogy of their chemistry with that of chewing gum. No doubt there was chewinggumgate scandal in the North Block when it was discovered that Dada and Mrs. Pauls office were

being bugged at 17 points. Interestingly, if Dada gets to work in dual capacity in the government, Mrs. Paul gets elevated in dual capacity. One can see the parallel graph when Dada was Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission as well as Commerce Minister, Mrs. Paul was OSD, Planning Commission as well as OSD to the Commerce Minister. Howsoever brilliant and gifted she might be, other political leaders or the government have failed to identify the extraordinary talent of Mrs. Paul. The great German scientist Wolfgang Pauli changed the course of physics by his apt intervention in quantum theory with his concept of spin. Many mandarins in North Block are heard mentioning that Pauline chemistry of spinning rules , regulations ,emoluments and favouritism in North Block will now wane. Mrs Paul is also a post-graduate in Chemistry and that helped her to have a durable polymer chemistry with Dada Though, Pranab Mukherjee is rated as disaster as Finance Minister, some Parliamentarians are heard quipping that he performed as an excellent Fianc Minister. Let us bid adieu to Pauline chemistry in Fianc Ministry of Pranab Mukherjee and pray God that Rashtrapati Bhawan does not get reduced into ( )-Pati Bhawan!

ANNEXURE C of thee Reply to Pranab Mukherjees Letter by Team Anna exposes Ms Paul Allegation of Illegitimate interference of Ms. Omita Paul https://www.box.com/s/dd8f2578483cdfa02bb6
The letter was sent to Pranab Mukherjee on 21st June and no response is forthcoming from either of the two. Inspite of "n" disappearing from Indian political vocubalary (no "n" in Singh and Manmohan Singh gets reduced to a M."Sigh"; no "n" in Fi"n"ance Ministry. Imagine Gan"n'dhis reducing into????. But all "n"s agglutinate to form "Banana" Republic!)

(1700 hrs, 27.5.12) BY: TheDevil_Heart2