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After winning elections of MLA, Bhaiya Jee's big processions were taken out; even he wanted so; not confident of winning in the future; so have fun now. But he had started to lobby for a ministers seat. Getting a minister’s seat was coming out to be very difficult and costly for our Bhaiya Jee. The party and the CM elect who had the majority of MLA's told him that they could not afford risking discontent by making a first time elect a minister. There were ample of MLA’s in queue who wanted to make up for their losses for sitting in the opposition for 2 terms.
Now Bhaiya Jee, did what nobody had dared thinking...he rounded up all Industrialists of his area with the help of his local henchmen and made the Industrialists commit huge sums for his campaign for minister ship. In return he promised that whatever helps legal-illegal he could offer the industrialists as an ruling party MLA and a minister will be given. Thus with the help of these industrialists he committed huge figure for party fund and certain discreetly discussed individual favors to CM elect and others.
He was guaranteed a ministers post but not that of a cabinet minister. Bhaiya had no issues he had come a long way. Now he was calculating the allotment of ministries and in the night had started to dream of the Oath taking ceremony in the Governor’s house. His beautiful & young ‘keep’ in the capital several times woke him up in the night, from his loud sleepy verdicts of “ Mein Bhaiya Bhai “ , “ Karunga “, “ Karta Hun”, which he use to utter during his sleep.
One day before he was informed by the CM office that it had been decided by the core committee to make him the Minister of Education with independent charge. It was informed to him that this independent charge was unduly given to him considering the crispness of the currency he had supplied to the party fund & other key individual coffers!
Bhaiya Bhai had a bout of shock. He started to see himself as a master with a stick in his hand and teaching the kids alphabets and the kids raising their small fingers one after other to visit the loo or drink water and disappearing. As such in his two years of school he himself had never returned to the class once his raised small finger had received a gesture of approval!
The thought built in that he had been ditched and his other colleagues had received better portfolios with more lucrative opportunities. He saw no return on investment (ROI) from this ministry. He had spent a lot on the elections and he had to contest other elections too.
At this hour of crisis; he took a brave step. He called up the CM and shared his concerns with him. He told the CM that he was “hungry” and eyeing other ministries where one got to “eat” full stomach . The Public Works Department gave every one part of it the opportunity of eating cement, sand, iron, sheets, bricks, coal tar etc. The Urban Planning Ministry gave one the opportunity to eat up land in partnerships of colonisers, in the medical ministry you always get to eat lots of medicine to remain fit together with eating hospital equipments etc. ; similarly all other ministries had one or the creamy stuff to eat. Even the Animal ministry, Bhaiya Jee knew a past minister had eaten fodder worth hundreds of crores. The education Ministry as appeared to Bhaiya Bhai Jee had no scope of eating.
Listening to these concerns of Bhaiya Jee the Chief Minister smiled; his smile was very much like Nishith Bhardwaj had demonstrated in the TV Mahabharat serial before starting to give The Geeta Gyaan to Arjun i.e. Bhaiya Jee. He told Bhaiya Jee, that he was aware of the concerns of Bhaiya Jee. He told to Bhaiya Jee that all ministries were the same; only looked different. As a politician he said that Bhaiya Jee should concentrate upon the “ Karma “ of ‘ EATING’. “ Do not worry what you are eating and how much you are eating; only eat. This was the only KARMA of a true politician” he said. Further he added that, “What appears that is available to eat is not actually what is available to eat, the truth is what was available to eat is something else and divine knowledge; which would come to you with experience”.
The Chief Minister advised to Bhaiya Jee that indiscriminate eating is what the need of the hour; what one was eating & how much should not be pondered upon. He said this was the only “ DHARMA” of a true politician.
..to be continued....................
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