Resignation letter magic stumps all

A magician’s show has become the talk of the town in Patna because he reportedly produced the resignation letters of three politicians present in the audience - Speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary, energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav and human resource development minister P.K. Shahi. The trio admitted that their signs on the resignation letters tallied with their signatures. The letters were torn and thrown away later.everal politicians, however, believe there can be magical solutions to many problems if the magician can produce resignation letters of a few. The most popular man whose resignation letter the NDA leaders want is that of the Governor Devanand Konwar. The RJD leaders pointed out that this magician had expressed his wish to vanish chief minister Nitish Kumar. “Incidentally, Nitish Kumar has vanished from Bihar at least for a week for his China visit,” a RJD leader said. A JD(U) leader retorted that Lalu Prasad disappeared from Bihar after the Assembly polls. “No magic was needed to make Lalu vanish,” the JD(U) leader said.

Food for thought

It is marriage season and caterers are landing everywhere with food, tables and chairs. At least five carts of food landed at the state BJP office recently. An office-bearer of the party was terrified and told the caterer that he had landed the food at the wrong place. “Get out of this office as fast as you can or your food will be looted. This place is full of hungry party workers,” the BJP office-bearer said. Political workers in Bihar have a reputation of liking free food.

Welcome break

The absence of chief minister Nitish Kumar from Bihar meant a much-needed holiday for the officers and ministers. “After several months I spent a peaceful Sunday at home. Otherwise, there used to be calls from the CM’s office to attend meetings,” a senior officer said. One minister bade goodbye to the chief minister at Patna airport and drove to his home constituency. “I could not go to my constituency because of the series of meetings at the secretariat. People will forget my face and I will lose the next elections if I do not visit my constituency at least once a week,” he said. Even at the secretariats one can find bureaucrats having leisure time. “The only tragedy is the hard work will be back when Nitish returns from China. It can be worse if he plans to implement schemes the China way,” an employee said.

Follow the leader, always

The leader has to be followed on every front - even his behaviours at public places. Chief minister Nitish Kumar has made it a habit of removing his shoes when he goes to offer floral tributes to portraits or statues of icons. Recently, he did the same at a party-sponsored programme while offering floral tributes to Sahajanand Saraswati. All his leaders followed the same practice. “In the Lalu days, every politician used to copy his style of speech. Nitish is simple in his speech and clothes. So they try to follow his behaviour,” a senior politician said.