RAW, IB heads were not chopped off

While CM had to go, IB and RAW chief managed to hang on just because they had little time to retire after 26/11
Sonia defers decision on Deshmukh
By: MK Tayal
Date: 2008-12-03
Loyalty pays. If you have any doubts, just ask beleaguered Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. Nothing else could have saved his skin with all the mayhem in Mumbai and party colleagues baying for his head. It all started at 10 Janpath, the residence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, where top Congress leaders went into a huddle to discuss the pressure on the Maharashtra chief minister to resign.The calls for his resignation got vociferous after he went to the Taj Hotel with filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma and his deputy, RR Patil, put in his papers. Emerging from the one-and-a-half hour long meeting, Deshmukh said, "The matter is with the high command. They will take the decision. I have explained the entire situation, including the steps I took after the incident."Defence Minister and party incharge of Maharashtra affairs, AK Antony, said the situation was discussed in detail and the final decision will be taken by Sonia Gandhi. Deshmukh flew to Delhi on a special plane with President Pratibha Patil who reached Mumbai, cutting short an official trip to Indonesia. He met Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel. Later External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee accompanied Deshmukh to 10 Janpath.Gandhi has kept it in suspended animation. But, Congress sources say Deshmukh would get a new lease of life. Meanwhile, speculation is rife that the government may sack some top intelligence officials for their failure to "generate actionable intelligence" to prevent the terror attacks.
More heads to roll
>>Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) secretary Ashok Chaturvedi may be asked to go on leave.
>>The axe may also fall on Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief PC Haldar, a source said on Tuesday.
>>The agencies are responsible for generating "credible and actionable" information. However, there was no specific input by them on terrorists' movement, the source said.
Maha plan of action
>>Establishing State Security Council on the lines of the National Security Council.
>>Setting up of Maharashtra State Security Guard on the lines of NSG.
>>First battalion of 200 commandos will be raised in the next four months.
>>Setting up 12 new coastal police stations and strengthening the old ones
>>Issuing smart cards to fishermen