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.’
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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