Shrewd Sheila

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/10/2010

Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit wants to ensure that she gets credit for all the nice things associated with the Commonwealth Games. Having earned her share of brickbats for the disasters that unraveled during the countdown to the Games, the CM now wants to bask in adulation. Two full page ads each in HT and TOI crediting her with the "restoration" of the monuments is just the beginning. As the Games wind up, there will be a surfeit of such eulogies.

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