Relying on Tata?

Delhi Whispers learns that Shankar Adawal, RIL’s Group President-Corporate affairs, has planted this report in the “Third Eye” as he was recently summoned to Mumbai and told that the Corporate Affairs function is being transferred from him & V Balasubramanian to Nira Radia & Pradip Baijal of Neosys.

Baijal was seen lunching last week with Guglani (DDG- Legal BSNL). Who's agenda was he following? Tata's or RIL's? Both the companies are pitched against Anil Ambani's RCOM, which explains the perfect Nira Radia fit.
It may be recalled that Baijal as chairman TRAI had got mired in controversy because of several favours he had shown to both TATA's & Reliance at that time emails which later proved to be not genuine, were circulated on how Baijal had been "accommodated" by friendly Reliance hatchet man to help the company.

Economic Times 18.11.2008

YOU can’t get a stranger alliance than this. Third Eye had, sometime ago, alluded how a public relations agency, floated by the Tata Group some years ago, had launched a new consulting firm that would also manage PR for Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). At first, this seemed improbable because it was difficult to fathom how two traditional rivals could conceivably have the same PR outfit. But that has not only turned out to be true, they seemed to have gone one step further. Third Eye has learnt that the new consulting firm, Neucom, will also manage part of RIL’s government relations in Delhi. This is even more surprising because RIL has a 250-member Delhi office, which among other things, is focused on government relations. It is a bit of a puzzle that a firm floated by the Tatas should be doing government relations for Reliance. Is there a catch somewhere in this? All of us would await with great curiosity for some illumination on that score. Won’t we?