The "Nautanki-Tamasha" has begun.

From what I have noticed recently; I may not miss watching "Comedy Nights With Kapil"  all that much for my weekly humour fix. First, the show is getting a tad too monotonous (suffering from creativity block) and second the news channels are streaming very amusing stories. Those that caught my fancy:

1. Ms. Malika Sarabhai lambasting AAP less than a week after joining the Party as a member on grounds of its insensitivity to certain issues she stands for. My advice to her is that a celebrity like her should drop out of the Party as she has never been an "Aam" person (being said in a positive way) to begin with and issues she stands for hardly affect the Aam Aadmi.

2. Ms. Medha Patkar announces her membership in  and support of AAP. Her causes, worthy as they are, have many a times confronted and conflicted with those who are in the seat of power. I wonder how long it will take her to criticise AAP as many of the AAP promises too will cross paths with the NAPM's ideology.

3.    Mr. Arvind Kejriwal announced that the "janta durbar" outside the secretariat for hearing out grievances would not be held anymore after the first one turned out to be a fiasco in man management. To counter it an e-redressal system and help line has been set up. I think he feels that the "Aam aadmi" is as tech savvy as he or his core party members, and will be able to file complaints using the net or via phone. Quite possible I suppose looking at the number of complaints filed; and the best way of killing the system would be to inundate it with tons of complaints to the point no redressal is possible.

 4. The Congress Party organized a rally to bring down electricity tariffs for the City of Mumbai. This is obviously an AAP inspired act; cause otherwise Mr. Nirupam and Ms. Dutt would have heard this sufferance a long time back. Honestly I don't care about the why and how of the act; but if it does help bringing down rates in any way I would thank them but still vote for AAP for having woken the right people to do it. Mr. Kejriwal is requested to now look at the corrupt practices in the food distribution system and in this case any price reduction will not cost the Delhi exchequer a single penny as the prices are artificially inflated by the middlemen who have support from the political stick wielders.

5. Mr. Rahul Gandhi, a distant 3rd in the "Kaun Banega PM" poll. If I had to vote on a personality rather than party basis; then Namo would be my first choice; If on party basis the AAP would be my current choice; but, if I had to bet on India's future - then Rahul would be a clear winner because I think his politics is very different than that of the Congress Party. Actually I would suggest he jumps ship and joins the AAP or BJP along with his band of young turks. Namo or AK would be better mentors for him and his merry band.

6. Mr. Khan, the Salman Khan (SK) himself was seen enjoying a kite session with Namo on Makkar Sankrant. He praised Namo to the skies and then cut his (Namo's) kite by saying that he (SK) will vote for Ms. Dutt and Baba Siddique (Congress). Did Big Boss not tell him not to discuss nominations in public?

7. Not in the news but I am waiting to see if Kapil Sharma (KS) joins the AAP. As it is KS is getting embroiled in issue based controversies with his booring jokes and he may as well get political mileage from it.

8. The Prince of Congress to be anointed King; not everyone in the Party is happy with this thing. So sure is the Party that it will loose; for it its king may become the blaming goose. (16/1/2014)

(Disclaimer: All stated in good humour and under the rights conferred under the  freedom of expression act by the Indian Constitution. In any event this is a private blog written by someone who does not matter - as of now).

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