By IANS,
New Delhi : Home Minister P. Chidambaram has really shaken up North Block that houses his ministry, not just with his biometric attendance system that has even peons and clerks clocking in to beat the deadline.
Chidambaram is undertaking such sweeping policy changes on combating terror and on policing that even his own party chief ministers are feeling the heat of his directives. And the home minister does not care if he has to become unpopular to force the pace of change.
At a recent closed-door meeting he said that a new security regimen was taking shape gradually and in the months to come there would be a major offensive against anti-state elements like the Maoists. He agreed his pushing the envelope to bring about change may not go down well with many chief ministers but said so far no one has complained. “Will it be better if I try to be popular and not have change?” he asked.