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Indian Politicians @ 'Second Life"
By KSM
Second Life on the Internet is the place where India and Pakistan are thick friends. It's where you live out your fantasies and dreams.
Someone somewhere in the PMO was living out his fantasies on Second Life….
Sonia Gandhi is waiting for an appointment with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Seventeen hours later, the PM's attendant says cryptically, "The PM wishes me to tell you that the appointment is cancelled. If you want you may apply for a Sub-Prime Appointment."
"What is all this?" Mrs Gandhi asks, fuming.
"Applying for a Sub-Prime Appointment entitles you for a lucky dip, and if you win the draw, you get free pass for the PM's Janata Darshan."
"So if I am lucky, I can see the PM in his Janata Darshan?" Mrs Gandhi asks, slowly.
"Not the PM, but the 'alleged' PM," the attendant smiles and goes on to explain, "At the Janata Darshan, it's not the PM, but his secretary who will be there wearing the PM's mask. Also, I suggest you practice shooting paper planes, because that's how the petitions will be accepted, to make the wait more worthwhile to the Aam Janata."
In another webpage, a Mizoram politician, Zvnlgviqtpnxvwiu (pronounced Zeu - all letters except the first and the last are silent, as per his region's tribal laws), is fantasizing….
Dateline: May 17, 2009. The Lok Sabha elections results are out. The NDA has got 271, the Congress 271, and the Third Front 4. Both the NDA and Congress need the support of one MP to form the government. They fail to get the support of the Third Front as all its 4 MPs want to be PM. So the only hope is Zeu.
Since the BJP has always been a party with a difference, it makes the first move to reach Zeu.
Zeu is in Switzerland, waiting for his guests at the presidential suite in the 12-Star Hyatt Presidency. When BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu calls up Zeu and invites him for a meeting with LK Advani, he replies, "I have to take my cat out to get its whiskers wind-swept. Why don't you ask Advani to fly to Switzerland and see me here? He can also see my cat."
A meticulous man, very particular about manners and customs, Advani googles Mizoram to know about its traditions and habits, before emplaning to Swiss Alps, and greets Zeu, in the way Zeu's tribesmen greet - doing a somersault, with eyes closed and hands folded.
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Zeu is impressed. "Will you give me anything for my support? He asks shyly, and seeing the strange look in Advani's face, explains, "In my tribe, we only take, we do not give."
"How about unlimited supply of pizzas made of snake meat, lizard soup, and tiger kababs?" Venkaiah Naidu offers, having updated his knowledge of the best of Mizoram cuisine.
Zeu licks his lips in anticipation (his own lips, not Venkaiah's). Venkaiah Naidu wants to settle the deal quickly, and so adds, "We'll also make you the President of India."
Zeu purrs happily, and says, "I have only one condition. I want all my visitors at Rashtrapati Bhavan to greet my cat the way my tribes greet people - do a somersault…" He looks alarmed. The Iron Man and his deputy have vanished.
In Delhi, Advani tells Sonia Gandhi what transpired, and she gives up, without even bothering to try. The Congress leaders and workers plead with her to agree for the somersault act, but for once she stubbornly refuses.
Faced with an unprecedented Constitutional crisis, the Third Front gets into the act to save the country. Laloo Prasad Yadav agrees to Zeu's condition, winking to his pal, Ram Vilas Paswan, saying '….the condition arises only if there are any visitors to the Rashtrapati Bhavan'. Eventually, Zeu is made the President, and Laloo Yadav heads the new government as PM, with outside support from the Congress and BJP, who are forced to extend their support. Zvnlgviqtpnxvwiu's tribesmen threaten to teach them how to somersault ….and the rest is history.
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