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Some people had hoped that the BJP would symbolize the true secularism, the gift of the glorious civilization of ancient India with its realization of Truth being One but the Paths being different. India alone has practiced truest secularism, allowing the refugees of all tormented followers of other religions, Jews, Zoarstrians or even trading Muslims to build their religious places and practice them in those middle ages when the proselyting religions, based on one book one prophet obsession, had created hordes of barbarians destroying the religious places of other religions and killing adherents of other religions, raping their women and converting them through threat and monetary incentives. Time has come to discard the hypocritical secularism of the Congress (remember Nehru and the Hindu Code Bill and Rajiv Gandhi and Shah Bano case) and show to the world that secularism is not atheism, not discarding of religion, but acceptance of multiple approaches to Cosmic truth, tolerance of difference of opinion, not irrational rigid uniformity of “our path alone is correct” or is that “last prophet” alone etc...... and Arab imperialism.
Three national parties, he says, the Congress, the BJP and the Communist party will not form the next government after the next general elections whenever that takes place he says. I will call the communist, a quarter national party, because outside Bengal, Kerala and Tripura, we notice its presence only during the strikes it calls in other states and disrupts traffic. It will be a fourth front he says excluding the three national parties, the Congress, the BJP and the communists, the battered, shattered and scattered parties of 2012.
I remember how during the time of Indira Gandhi politicians went to cardiologists and their wives with the horoscopes of their husbands to astrologers.
Raj Narain had gone on an election tour in a village side with some vegetarian politicians. After a day or two, he saw a wayside restaurant (dhaba as we call it) and immediately said that so long he had been having bhojan (meaning food but being a Hindi word may mean for some people, wrongly though, vegetarian food) and now he wanted to have khana (an Urdu word which may mean for some people, wrongly though, non vegetarian food).
Lalu Prasad Yadav
Similarly Lalu Prasad Yadav, protected by police guards reached a village where there was a rivulet. He immediately told the policemen that he would cross quickly and they should follow. He got up on the back of a buffaloe like a typical villager and crossed.
When the policemen could not do it but reached the other side of the rivulet with lot of difficulty he is said to have asked how could they ever protect a leader if they did not know how to ride a buffalo.
Some Anecdotes
Some anecdotes which circulate about some politicians create some humor.
1. During the last general elections a Hindi speaking Congressman came home after hectic electioneering. Dumping his huge body on a sofa in his drawing room, he saw a woman coming and got up to do namaste to her. Later, he discovered that it was his wife not a voter of a street. It was an election time reaction. Then correcting himself, he told her to give him some khaini (tobacco powder mixed with lime) to give him a kick strong enough to take him straight into the central cabinet and not stop at Ghaziabad railway station.
He is in the central cabinet of course now and is seen on television screen whenever some law and order problem arises.
2. A friend in a high position in bureaucracy told me once that during election time, one astrologer picks up the horoscopes, right or wrong, of twenty five important leaders of his state and gives predictions to all of them in writing that they would win elections and become ministers. Two out of the twenty five do become ministers and he shows them as his success and encashes them.
3. For nearly a decade there has been a talk of passing Women’s Reservation Bill which was successfully obstructed by male legislators one of whom described it as WEE -MENS BILL.
4. Bihar has been described as a state with highest per capita poverty.
Aya Ram Gaya Ram
There was a politician of Haryana who changed political parties at a time when the addition of even one member of legislature was making a difference to the political claimants wanting to form a government. This politician took money from each party and went on changing, perhaps, ten parties, one after another, on a single day. This act gave to Indian politics a new word in Hindi “aya Ram Gaya Ramâ€. The name of the politician had Ram in his name. This word means a turncoat.
Raj Nath Singh
On a website is reported a speech of Raj Nath Singh of BJP which is not humour but a very intelligent and cultured remark.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1129205http://www.dnaindia.com/
report.asp?newsid=1129205
Withdraw support from Centre: Rajnath tells Left
PTI
Monday, October 22, 2007 20:23 IST AGRA: BJP chief Rajnath Singh has asked the Left parties to withdraw their support to the UPA government over the nuclear deal issue.
"During Rama's time, politics was 'bhakti' (devotion), in Krishna's time it became 'yukti' (skill) and in the hands of Gandhi and Subhash it became 'shakti' (power). Then it became 'mukti' (freedom) while in the hands of patriots Ashfaq Khan and Bhagat Singh but now it has become 'sampati' (property)," he claimed.
But the best political humour was provided by a journalist, some Joshi, who wrote a humor column in a Hindi newspaper. His sudden death through heart attack was a terrible loss to high quality journalism. He was read, admired and became something of a legend for some years.
Among the many pieces he wrote, Congressmen quoted the one relating to Rajiv Gandhi, the prime minister whose house was heavily guarded by battalions of policemen.
The 'small Congressmen' ( which was the title of the famous piece) who had no access to Rajiv Gandhi and distinguished themselves by getting a petty police officer from one station to a more lucrative bribe yielding station and made money, did not know much about the great bribe story, the Bofors deal, in which Rajiv Gandhi was said to be involved. Compared to the small amount of money they were making Rajiv was perhaps minting billions and hiding them in foreign banks.
All that these small Congressmen knew was, said Joshi was.
Baahar battalion
Under Italian
Outside the house of Rajiv Gandhi there was the battalion (of policemen) And inside the house was the Italian (Sonia Gandhi.)
( 25 October 2007)
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