Looks like politicians want to now usurp the roles of stand up comedians. They are now out to provide comic relief and other forms of light distractions in the face of faltering economy, rising prices, starvation deaths, rotting food grains, drought and flood woes.
First it was Beni Prasad Verma. Somehow Congress party never gave him his due, probably because he was a turncoat from Samajwadi Party. However his remarks on inflation had the party's ace foot-in-mouth practitioners feel hot under their collar.
He said that rising prices actually helped farmers! Probably long innings in Delhi's corridors of power has made him incapable to differentiate between farmer and middleman. Since he may be interacting more with the latter for election funding and other money matters, he may have thought they got a really good thing going. Now that government has increased diesel prices, hope he does not feel that the boys who dispense fuel at petrol pumps are going to book Mercs.
Some days later it was the turn of opposition BJP. And that too none other than loh purush Narendra Modi - normally known for combative rabble rousing statements.
He told a US newspaper that malnutrition in Gujarat was due to vegetarianism and middle class girls’ size zero obsession. Surprisingly his remarks on vegetarianism went unchallenged and mercifully there were no Peta protests. It was surprising that no veggie pressure group took umbrage to his statement. Or probably they failed to make it to media's radar.
But his comment on middle class girls more than made up for that shortcoming. While organisations associated with child rights and women brandished statistics to show how worse off girls are in Gujarat; he became a favourite muse for cartoonists and satirists.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi too joined the fray by coming up with a jaw-droppingly ludicrous statement on rising Muslim population in his state. To cover up Congress government's lapses in curbing Bangladeshi infiltration, Gogoi ended tying himself up in knots.
At a TV interview to Karan Thapar he shocked everyone by saying that the rise in population among Muslims was due to illiteracy. Thapar first thought it was a slip of tongue and asked him repeatedly, but he came out with same reply. His party high command was left red faced and tongue tied. And for Muslims it was a rude awakening, as it came from the mouth a leader belonging to a secular party.
Meanwhile amidst all this foot-in-mouth orgy, the apple of every cartoonists' eye Digvijay Singh was conspicuous by his absence.
Also Read: Bangalore Beat
First it was Beni Prasad Verma. Somehow Congress party never gave him his due, probably because he was a turncoat from Samajwadi Party. However his remarks on inflation had the party's ace foot-in-mouth practitioners feel hot under their collar.
He said that rising prices actually helped farmers! Probably long innings in Delhi's corridors of power has made him incapable to differentiate between farmer and middleman. Since he may be interacting more with the latter for election funding and other money matters, he may have thought they got a really good thing going. Now that government has increased diesel prices, hope he does not feel that the boys who dispense fuel at petrol pumps are going to book Mercs.
Some days later it was the turn of opposition BJP. And that too none other than loh purush Narendra Modi - normally known for combative rabble rousing statements.
He told a US newspaper that malnutrition in Gujarat was due to vegetarianism and middle class girls’ size zero obsession. Surprisingly his remarks on vegetarianism went unchallenged and mercifully there were no Peta protests. It was surprising that no veggie pressure group took umbrage to his statement. Or probably they failed to make it to media's radar.
But his comment on middle class girls more than made up for that shortcoming. While organisations associated with child rights and women brandished statistics to show how worse off girls are in Gujarat; he became a favourite muse for cartoonists and satirists.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi too joined the fray by coming up with a jaw-droppingly ludicrous statement on rising Muslim population in his state. To cover up Congress government's lapses in curbing Bangladeshi infiltration, Gogoi ended tying himself up in knots.
At a TV interview to Karan Thapar he shocked everyone by saying that the rise in population among Muslims was due to illiteracy. Thapar first thought it was a slip of tongue and asked him repeatedly, but he came out with same reply. His party high command was left red faced and tongue tied. And for Muslims it was a rude awakening, as it came from the mouth a leader belonging to a secular party.
Meanwhile amidst all this foot-in-mouth orgy, the apple of every cartoonists' eye Digvijay Singh was conspicuous by his absence.
Also Read: Bangalore Beat
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