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How do you account for your debacle and poor performance first in Punjab and Chhattisgarh and now in UP?" someone asked Dr Manmohan Singh. He said, "It’s nothing but climate change!" The other person said, "Sir, do you think that it was the melting of glaciers in Himalayas that has resulted in such a landslide victory for Mayawati?" Dr Singh said, "Yes. We’ll have to work on greenhouse gases and control carbon emission". The interviewer was baffled. "Sir, how can controlling carbon emission help the Congress regain its lost glory?" Dr Singh said, "The Badals in Punjab are great pollutants. Mulayam and Amar Singh are sources of obnoxious gases". The fellow asked, "But how is it that Mayawati has been voted back to power with such a thumping majority?" Dr Singh pondered for a while before replying, "Actually Mayawati uses a strong perfume to entice the voters, but that will soon wear off". The interviewer got angry, "Sir, you are passing off all your failures to the change in climate like Indira Gandhi used to blame everything on the foreign hand!" Suddenly Dr Sahib got up
in a hurry and said, "Sorry, you’ll have to leave, because I
have to attend to something important". The interviewer said,
"Sir, I’m happy that you have decided to intervene in the
changing climate of Punjab because of the ‘dera’problem". The
Prime Minister replied, "My dear fellow, the only problem I’m
worried about is the climate of the Sensex. If the Sensex is looking
up then everything in the country is looking up!"
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