Fighting poll blues
Despite BSP’s poor show in the Delhi Lok Sabha elections and Behenji’s diktat to dissolve all state units, the party’s billionaire candidates are trying to keep their spirits high. The South Delhi candidate Kanwar Singh Tanwar, after garnering the highest number of votes among all BSP candidates in the city, was in London this month, while others said they had returned to “social work” drives, and respective businesses. After all, they can’t let election blues get to them.  

Saved by appetite
BJP president and MP from Ghaziabad, Rajnath Singh, had a difficult time during a recent visit to his constituency. Faced with questions about his party’s debacle in the Lok Sabha polls and the growing differences between the party leaders, Singh first attempted to avert the grilling but when that failed, he took recourse to an older method. He suddenly declared that lunch had already been served and the discussion could be held later. His party workers could then be seen digging into the food, much to his relief.

Stuck in the lift
Some authority needs to ‘lift’ this problem on its shoulders or else the officials and people visiting the Gurgaon Mini-Secretariat will continue wheezing up six floors by stairs. The five of the six lifts in the building have not been working since their installation several years ago. And the only one that does work gets stuck frequently due to overuse and overload. However, the HUDA, which constructed the building, cites its “helplessness” as the maintenance is allegedly the responsibility of the PWD (B&R) wing. Meanwhile, the PWD maintains it is yet to take over the responsibility.

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