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The business community has put forward a proposal (STATUTORY GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: THIS IS NOT A JOKE) to make Khaobadi extortion tax deductible and have a 'one-window' policy whereby shops and companies don't have to empty their pockets for every Comrade Tom, Dick and Hari who comes around for door-to-door ransom collection . Asked about this at the FNCCI-organised Decisive Debate to End All Debates last week Chairman Stupendousness replied: "We never extort anyone. We just ask them to donate voluntarily, and if they don't, we remind them of the consequences." First Prize in this week's Doublespeak Gold Medal.
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All is not hunkydory within the Baddie leadership it seems. Kaji Narayan was visibly displeased at being kept out of the threesome on the Maoist table during the Final Solution debate. The organisers probably thought if we have the original why do we need the photocopy? The very next day NKS let it slip that he was available for PM-ship if there was going to be a deadlock between PKD and MKN, which brought a sharp, immediate response from BRB. We are also hearing BRB is sending feelers through back channels to MKN not to step down. And the plot thickens even more as Lord Ram Chandra throws his hat in the ring as well, announcing his availability for Baluwatar. Journalists chasing up the leak found the source was none other than RCP himself. Which is why the tripartite talks among the trinity of troikas in the three parties won't amount to much because the individual components are waiting for the right moment to become prime ministers themselves.
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When RCP and BRB were having it out on Sajha Sawal, Ram Chandra told Baburam a precondition to the Baddies being allowed back into govt was disbanding the YCL. Comrade Laldhoj's reply: "Why don't you kangresis also set up a YCL?"
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Just as well the Rato Machhendranath Jatra has been postponed by a month. The decision was taken for various astrological and planetary reasons, but it has turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it is highly unlikely that the Khao-ists would have allowed the rath to be pulled during a bund. "Two legs good, four wheels bad. (Unless it is a pram)."