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The majority vote bank..!

ROBERT CLEMENTS

Two chief ministers have found the best way to win elections is to appease the majority, and let me whisper into your ear, the majority vote bank are the Women of India! Suddenly political parties do not have to use religion or casteism but just promises to women and bingo, they get votes:
“Prohibition in Bihar!” shouted Nitish and he won the elections.
“Prohibition in Tamilnadu!” says Amma in Chennai and there’s no doubt all the women will give their votes and she will win.
“We have to tap this vote bank!” frowned the leader of the ruling party, “If we don’t do it, we will continue losing in every state, we need to give women something that will make them vote for our party! Maybe we’ll announce, we will stop all rapes in the country!”
“There are more rapes now than before,” whispered a party man, “Woman won’t believe us! We need something better to get their votes!”
“We will do something like Kejriwal did for Delhi,” said the ruler of the ruling party, “We will have an odd and even day scheme!”
“I don’t understand sir, you mean odd day’s women can drive, even days the men?”
“No, no, this has nothing to do with driving, this has to do with all the other things women do, but would love to escape from. Odd days women cook, even days the men!”
“Excellent sir! Odd days women look after their children, even days it’s the men!”
“Odd days men wash clothes, odd days men bathe the dog, odd days men take their children’s home work!”
“Sir, this is brilliant, this will be better than prohibition! We will win Assam, and West Bengal and Tamilnadu with this strategy! Though sir there could be one problem to your solution, we might lose the men’s vote!”
“We won’t,” said the ruler of the ruling party, we will also say that odd days men can vote, even days, women, and we will have the elections only on even days!”
The partyman looked at his leader with admiration as the phone rang, “What?” asked the leader into the phone, and then looked up and shouted, “Scrap the plan!”
“Why sir?”
“The women’s groups are on the line! They say that odd years men stand for elections and even years it’s only women! Which means I won’t be leader anymore!”
“Let us stick to liquor ban and beef ban and dance bar ban!” said the party man.
“Yes,” whispered the leader, “If they come to power they just might pass a Men’s Ban Bill and deport us to Mars!”
Both men shuddered and peeped out of the window the rest of the day.
    
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Published by the Editor on behalf of Independent Publications Limited at Media Printers, 446/H, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1215.
Editorial, News & Commercial Offices : Beximco Media Complex, 149-150 Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. GPO Box No. 934, Dhaka-1000.

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