[Reader-list] PM’s media adviser Baru resigned

[Bikash Ballabh Singh]

SANJAY BARU, the media adviser to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has
put in his papers, according to a buzz. He is slated to take up a teaching
assignment in a Singapore University. According to highly placed sources,
Baru exit, after August this year has fuelled speculation of election
anytime after that.

Sources close to the PMO said that the former editor of Financial Express,
who was responsible for Dr Singh's public image, would teach economics in
his next assignment. A doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),
Baru, is a respected journalist.

It is said that he was close to Dr Singh when he was a Finance minister
during early Nineties. He was also a member of the National Security
Advisory Board, other than being associated with leading newspapers.

A pattern is palpable. Earlier, just before the elections, Shakti Sinha,
during Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure as Prime Minister had jumped ship as
well. He was the PM's private secretary. A bureaucrat of the Union Territory
cadre, he had taken up an assignment with the International Monetary Fund
(IMF).

PMO watchers opined that those near the power center are sure indicators of
which way the wind is blowing. Just as Sinha hung his boots just before the
Vajpayee government collapsed, is Baru too doing the same?

If Baru leaves after August, is election far away, asked a highly placed
source, with a smile and glint in his eyes.
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