Running and governing the country is not all work and no play. Once in a while our netas do go off track as well. Be it in the Parliament or during rallies, taking a dig at one another and having a good laugh is something our politicians have learnt to do rather well! Here’s our pick
On August 12, 2011, while calling the attention of Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on the poor financial health of Air India, this is what transpired on the floor of the House:
CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta: There is some black dirt in the dal and they will have to eat that dal. Wait for some time. They will have to eat that dal. Sir, I am coming to a close. Please allow me.
Mr Chairman (Satpal Maharaj): Come to the point, please.
Dasgupta: These are all points, Madam. I have not gone beyond any point.
SP Lok Sabha MP Shailendra Kumar: It’s not Madam, but Sir on the Chair.
Mr Chairman: Please address the Chair.
Dasgupta: Hon'ble Chairperson is as tender as a woman and as strong as a man.
Mr Chairman: Thank you.
Dasgupta: You are in the Chair. How beautiful it is to have you in the Chair today!....(Interruptions)”
CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta: There is some black dirt in the dal and they will have to eat that dal. Wait for some time. They will have to eat that dal. Sir, I am coming to a close. Please allow me.
Mr Chairman (Satpal Maharaj): Come to the point, please.
Dasgupta: These are all points, Madam. I have not gone beyond any point.
SP Lok Sabha MP Shailendra Kumar: It’s not Madam, but Sir on the Chair.
Mr Chairman: Please address the Chair.
Dasgupta: Hon'ble Chairperson is as tender as a woman and as strong as a man.
Mr Chairman: Thank you.
Dasgupta: You are in the Chair. How beautiful it is to have you in the Chair today!....(Interruptions)”
While initiating a debate on the Finance Bill on April 27, 2009, MP Jaswant Singh (also a former finance minister) said to the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee:
“… The passage of the Finance Bill will actually add to your difficulty because you will have all the attendant steps that you have to take about having a new tax manual, etc.
“… The passage of the Finance Bill will actually add to your difficulty because you will have all the attendant steps that you have to take about having a new tax manual, etc.
I speak from personal experience, I lost my hair when I had experienced this.”
To this, Pranab Mukherjee wittily remarked: “I have already lost (hair)”.
To this, Pranab Mukherjee wittily remarked: “I have already lost (hair)”.
Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh recently lampooned BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on his website. Titled ‘Feku Wind Mill’,
this is what it said...
A man dies. In heaven he sees a large wall full of clocks.
He asks angel: What are these for?
Angel answers: These are lie clocks, every person has a lie clock, Whenever you lie on earth, clock moves..The man points towards a clock and asks: Whose clock is this?
Angel says: It's Vivekananda's. It never moved showing that he never told a lie..
The man asks: Where is Narendra Modi's clock?
Angel replies: That's in our office..We use it as a TABLE FAN. . .!
this is what it said...
A man dies. In heaven he sees a large wall full of clocks.
He asks angel: What are these for?
Angel answers: These are lie clocks, every person has a lie clock, Whenever you lie on earth, clock moves..The man points towards a clock and asks: Whose clock is this?
Angel says: It's Vivekananda's. It never moved showing that he never told a lie..
The man asks: Where is Narendra Modi's clock?
Angel replies: That's in our office..We use it as a TABLE FAN. . .!
During a debate on 5th August 2011 regarding the Telangana issue, this is how the then Home Minister P Chidambaram was interrupted:
Sushma Swaraj: Mr. Home Minister, I was reading from the contents of the judgment.
P Chidambaram: I agree Madam.
Madam Speaker: Let him reply.
Chidambaram: I agree Madam, my law may be rusty; I agree. But this is how I understand the law….(Interruptions) Kirti Azad, please, Kirti Azad, take law from me; I will take cricket from you….(Interruptions).
Kirti Azad: No, take it from Dhoni now!…..(Interruptions)
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