The 50 Crore Girlfriend

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As I gingerly sip my sugarless morning tea, I detect that the newspapers are filled with exposes and angry retaliations.

Narendra Modi called Shashi Tharoor’s wife- Sunanda Pushkar ‘a 50 crore girlfriend’. The incensed Tharoors hit back at Modi; calling him an uncultured man with no respect for women.

Meanwhile, the unstoppable Kejrival went on to expose the union law minister Salman Khursheed ‘s ‘meagre’ Rs.71 lakh fraud. Khursheed retaliated by challenging the whistleblower to walk out alive from his constituency-Farrukhabad!

The following week Kejriwal revealed Nitin Gadkari’s shenanigans with Purti group of companies. Before the naive tax-paying public could swallow this one, an RSS man jumped into the circus claiming that Narendra Modi, with his sights on the PM’s seat, had orchestrated the Gadkari expose.

It seems like Digvijay Singh, who by virtue of being a Congress party spokesman deserved to be linked to some messy political scrap, was completely left out.  He proceeded to nosedive into the media soiree by saying ‘Kejriwal is like Rakhi Sawant because they both expose, but their exposures are without any ‘substance’.

Now Rakhi may quietly accept comments that belittle her mind, but she believes robustly in the ‘substance’ she possesses, i.e her body. Having invested diligently in the ‘up’ keep of her gifts, Rakhi rose rapidly from the ashes (of this insult) and exploded into the airwaves.

‘I will show this man’ Rakhi Sawant announced stoically.  Without revealing specifically what she would like to show him, she proceeded to a police station in Goregaon, Bombay to lodge a complaint against Digvijay Singh. 

To her credit, Ms.Sawant also lambasted politicians for watching dirty videos in parliament, while the country suffered. But clearly, what seemed to drive her was the sweet smell of free publicity. 

Digvijay Singh, on the other hand, seems happy to continue this media-union between him and his item girl. When asked why he dragged Rakhi into the Kejrival episode, he replied with a dim grin ‘because I have been an ardent fan of Rakhi since many years.’ 
 

It may be just a coincidence that Rakhi is planning a 50 crore defamation suit against Singh. Though it does seem that if she wins this outlandish case, we gullible bystanders would have come a full circle. Narendra Modi can then call Rakhi Sawant a 50 crore girlfriend! (whose girl friend is anybody’s guess.)  

--By Manu