In The Telegraph, Calcutta, Sankarshan Thakur reports on the antics of the nation’s leaders on whom our democracy rests on budget day:
“But beyond these and few more, Pranab Mukherjee’s hold appeared vanquished by the pursuit of other pre-occupations. Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda snoozed on the crook of his wrist in the front Opposition bench. Plonked beside him, Lalu Prasad chuckled mischievously.
“Mulayam Singh Yadav repeatedly prompted him to nudge Gowda awake, but Lalu remained stoutly averse to the idea of putting an end to his benchmate’s embarrassment. “Sone do, sone do,” he reasoned with Mulayam. “Kya karega uth ke? (Let him slumber on, what will he do if he is woken up, anyhow?).”
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Tags: Churumuri, H D Deve Gowda, Lalu Prasad, Lok Sabha, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Pranab Mukherjee, Sankarshan Thakur, Sans Serif, The Telegraph
1 March 2010 at 7:49 am
Hilarious but sadly true! What would Dr. Ramesh and friends say about the performance of Dirty Sleepy Devegowda?
1 March 2010 at 9:18 am
Well done Lalu. Why wake up someone who is in deep thought about solving nation’s problems?
1 March 2010 at 4:34 pm
TV9 had a nice caption — “Nice” niddhe
2 March 2010 at 4:36 pm
but now our gowda is awake about nice so that he can emmbarass the stat govt.And he wont sleep he will be constatnly thinking about our country by closing his eyes!