Desai quits PMO, Dholandas joins it as a new communications strategist in PMO

And former Miss India Worldwide Melissa Bhagat joins Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's Ottawa office.

Once you've had a taste of politics, it's hard not to return for another bite.

Take Carl Dholandas, 29, for instance. He used to be on the national executive of the now-defunct federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada "many years ago," but left politics to go to law school at McGill University in his native Montreal.

After graduating in 2006 and passing the Quebec Bar in 2007, he practised at the firm McCarthy-Tetrault...