Arun Jaitley, a former law minister, was appointed this week to start talks with political parties on giving the state more autonomy.

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In comes Arun Jaitley, one of the architects of the Gujarat win, who moves from general secretary of the BJP back into the cabinet.

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Nobody knows if the urbane Mr Jaitley, who leads the party in Parliament's upper house, or the pugnacious Sushma Swaraj, in the lower house, is really in charge.

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Mr Modi, on the other hand, has attracted intelligent and ambitious strategists, such as Arun Jaitley, who would not waste their talents on him if they thought him no more than a provincial demagogue.

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But while Mr Jaitley was fending off the US, in the UK the issue of both outsourcing and of fast-tracked incoming staff - a hot issue among some local IT workers - was returning to the fore.

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