Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Prez be the lord

* Samajwadi Party demands president’s rule in Assam (Congress rule).
* Congress wants president’s rule in Uttar Pradesh (Samajwadi Party govt).
* BJP wants president’s rule in West Bengal (CPM-led Left).
* Left wants president’s rule in Gujaat, or any other BJP-ruled government anywhere in India, or abroad.
* Each non-Congress party wants president’s rule in Maharashtra every time a debt-ridden farmer in Vidharbha kicks the bucket (though everyone, including the media, seems to have forgotten the area’s location on the map now that elections approach elsewhere in the country).
* Half of India wants president’s rule over the other half.

And the poor president? Forget imposing his rule, he cannot even decide whether he needs/wants/wishes/looks forward to/refuses… to have a haircut.

This, if the irony is to be carried a notch beyond the point of tolerance, is INDIA POISED. Or INDIA EMPOWERED. Or, for that matter, INDIA SHINING. Or… whatever.
In effect, INDIA IMPOVERISHED.
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