“..Rahul will be PM: Jayanthi…” TOI, Nov 19th.
“Ma!”
“Yes my son?”
“Jayanthi aunty says I will be PM!”
“Yes, my son of course you will be!”
“When ma, when?”
“Soon my son, soon!”
“But ma!”
“Yes my son?”
“With all these scams, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen!”
“It will me son, it will!”
“When ma?”
“Soon my son, soon!”
“I don’t think so ma!”
“Listen to me my son, these people who are hounding us will soon come to power right?”
“Yes ma!”
“Then what do you think they will do?”
“Tell me ma?”
“The same thing we did! They will try to make money, they will try to fill their purses and like Raja and Kalmadi they will also get caught! Then do you know what will happen?”
“Tell me ma?”
“The people will call for you!”
“But I will be an old man ma!”
“Mama Mia you will be old in three years time?”
“Three years only?”
“Yes my son three years. See what they have done in Karnataka. Not only have they done the worst looting but they are not even bothered!”
“Yes mother!”
“Look at their party chief, he has fudged his company accounts, put even his driver as a director, and yet they do nothing, but…”
“But what ma?”
“But when all this happens when they are in power in Delhi, the people will not tolerate it and the public will long for you, like your grandmother even after the emergency, your father even after Bofors and you even after a dozen scams!”
“But why ma, why? Why will they want me as PM?”
“Because India loves being ruled by it’s royal family my son. It’s an addiction..!”