small story - path to parliament

Netaji is very much worried. He is worried because next day voting is scheduled for his constituency and he is not sure about victory. Yes he is a sitting MP and holds ticket of a national party but his contribution in the development of his constituency in last 5 years compelled him to think that he might lose. Its well past 9 PM. His poll managers are busy on mobiles and laptops to find out the ground realities.
Manager1: "Sir looks like tough chance for you this time. Yes because of majority of voters in this constituency are from your caste so you will get some votes and there are also some fixed party cadre votes but then too I can project that it will be a tough chance for you."
Netaji: "How much will be the difference? Do you have any figure around that."
Manager1: "Yes. Its close race. Margin may be as less as 20 thousands - 50 thousands."
Netaji: "It’s not too small to arrange overnight."
Manager2: "I have an idea sir. If you would like to listen"
Netaji: "Sure. tell me"
Manager2:"I have arranged voter list of few pockets in this constituency where relatively poor people stay. My study indicates that they are mostly slum areas of city. We will target 100000 voters from these city in 10 groups of 10000 each. We will distribute one Rs 1000/- note to each one of them overnight. It will cost you Rs 10 crores. In case even 50 % of them turns to vote you, you will win this election "
Netaji:"Its too big money to invest. Why the rates has soared to Rs 1000/- per voter. I thought it must be Rs 500/- per voter"
Manager3: " That is the rate for MLA election sir. Also in last 5 years money has depreciated a lot." This guy was a finance graduate and lost his way to join politics.
Manager2: "Anyway you are not in loss. In last 5 years you made lot more than this 10 crores figure. Only MP fund fetched you Rs 10 crores for last 5 years."
Netaji: "Let me think."
There was a pin drop silence for some time and then Netaji asked again.
Netaji: "Do we have cash arranged?"
Manager1: "Almost sir. We just need to finalize 10 teams of 2 persons each in different areas. One will hold the bag full with currency. Other will go thru the voter list and call the voters and hand over the Rs 1000/- note with a stern warning if they won’t vote for us"
Netaji: "Please also involve our party workers in respective areas for help and give priorities to workers with criminal background."
Manager2: "as you wish sir".
Netaji: "Dont do much delay. It’s already 10 PM"

Quickly 10 teams got formed. Notes of Rs 1000/- got arranged with the help of some local businessmen. Police and IT authorities were not an issue for them because Netaji belongs to ruling party. Every team left the poll management office by 11 PM. Whole night, lot of areas in constituency were awake. People waited for their turn in queues to get Rs 1000/- note from Netaji's worker. Some places notes got distributed with help of torch light. Around 5 AM in morning every team returned back with 100% utilization of budget.

After 3 days and whole day counting Netaji won election by 25000 votes. The areas where money were distributed, Netaji got huge number of votes. Success rate was more than 75%. Netaji picked some youngsters from these areas and distributed 2 bottles chilled beer to each one of them and some additional money to arrange for music system and crackers on public chowks to celebrate the victory.

Netaji is feeling relieved and very happy. While going to bed he is thinking what a cool way to get into the parliament and is also feeling bad about why did he waste last 2 months campaigning in his constituency in these very warm summer days..........

Accountability

Last week, secretaries and other office bearers of almost every sport bodies rushed to meet prime minister Mr. Manmohan Singh. It was an emergency like situation for them. They worked tirelessly. They wanted PM to intervene in the tussle between sport minister Mr. Gill and sport authorities. Sport minister wanted to fix age limit for office bearers (most of them are politicians who doesn’t even know A B C of respective sports. For example Mr Abhay Chautala is President of the Indian Boxing Federation) and that was the main problem for these office bearers. They are running sports bodies in this country for years now. Some of them are heading their sport body for last 15-20 years. They don’t want a cap for their tenures. They never got baffled like this when India didn’t win any medal in Olympics or won very few medals in Asiad with such a huge population. They also never got bothered when athletes and players complained about the facilities and training provided to them. They were also not worried when news of bribe and wrong doing surfaced in media surrounding their sports bodies. But when news came of limiting the age of officials, they were highly active to lobby and persuade sport minister to take back this decision. Reason.......? Comments ........?