V.V.I.P BOVINES

Cows, it seems, have decided to play a stellar role in Indian politics. Remember the Congress (I) election symbol at one time was a cow and a calf?  Probably, it signified the way the party was milking, or was intending to milk the country.   Anyway, the bovines have since then invaded the roads of Delhi with no one realising the fact that it was a demonstration of their ire at the political situation.  The cows have for long been demanding the right to caste their vote, but their pleas have gone largely unheard.  As a wag put it – a rebel cow (certainly not Congress T) was seen coming out of a booth of New Delhi constituency, apparently in protest, as it did not find the symbol of the cow and calf on the ballot paper.

The other day a newspaper carried a report of VVIPs breeding cattle in the lawns of their gardens and milking them.  Well, cows certainly seem to be the cynosure of all attention for quite some time now. First it was Lord Ganesha’s milk-drinking spree, followed by the fodder scam, the mad cow’s disease and now the VVIPs pouring their affection on bovines.  It was also reported that while each house could breed only one head of cattle.  VVIPs were free to run a dairy farm from their respective residences.  But the status that the cow has been accorded in our country – that of a mother (Gau maata) only means that the VVIPs are paying their obeisance to the age-old concept. And anything that is venerable, can hardly be ridiculed.

Moreover, these VVIPs definitely need the ‘crème de la crème’ – a la Kamadhenu, if they are to successfully speak up for the creamy layer among the backwards, forwards, minorities or what you have.  Didn’t our Father of the Nation drink goat’s milk?  Only one of the VVIPs – the venerable Tau, was nearly synonymous with bovines.  He used to “moo” at anyone who dared raise a voice against the breeding of cattle in his backyard in the capital.  Of course, the number of bovines kept decreasing according to the Tau’s declining political status, till his political graph became ‘stable.’

India has been always known as a land where milk is supposed to be flowing since times immemorial.  What’s wrong if some VVIPs make arrangements for milk to flow in their own backyards?  They certainly cannot be trusted to gulp down DMS milk, which boasts of many other ‘nutrients’ besides the ones intended.  The NDMC staff, on its part, has always been getting the creeps, for they have an ‘angst’ in taking on the might of the VVIPs on the issue.  They allege that the licence for the cost of an animal was a meagre for Rs. 10.  So, why bother to take on the might of the politicians and the privileged class over such a trivial issue?

But a compromise formula can certainly be arrived at.  A representation should be made to the Election Commission that the right of VVIPs to milk the cows be exempted from the model code of conduct.

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