Smoke without fire
Is Margaret Alva joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)? It does demand suspension of belief but newspaper reports have come out saying that she, along with her second son Nivedit, is proposing to dump the Congress party and join the BJP. However, denials followed almost instantly, so this might be a case of smoke without fire.
Alva, who has been a union cabinet minister and governor in various Congress regimes, has never had any charges of corruption against her, has been an adoring follower of Indira Gandhi and a colleague of Rajiv Gandhi. Her other son Nikhil, is one