National Discourse and Its impact (Strictly Non-serious)
Moneylife Digital Team 23 February 2018
Union minister Nitin Gadkari, probably, had the best reaction to finance minister Arun Jaitley’s long Budget speech. (See photograph below). But the rest of the country was occupied with other momentous non-issues.  So Karni Sena, which held Bollywood to ransom and destroyed public and private property, did an about-turn to declare that the movie Padmaavat, in fact, eulogises Rajput valour and traditions. After two days of high-decibel debates, the issue is dead with nobody held accountable or punished anywhere in the country for loss of business and destruction of public property!
 
 
The pakoda debate was another issue that occupied more time than the fiscal deficit or even the newly unveiled national health policy dubbed ModiCare. So, the issue would not die down long after prime minister Narendra Modi said, “If a person sells pakodas and takes home Rs200 every evening, will it be considered employment or not?” The charged-up Congress social media team had a field day and some even sold pakodas in Bengaluru dressed in a graduation gown. BJP president Amit Shah’s raked it up again, saying “it is better to sell pakodas than to be unemployed”, in his maiden speech in the Rajya Sabha on 5th February. All we can say is that 2019 will decide whether people voted the BJP to power to go cashless and have less pakodas, or had they expected a lot more.  
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Deepak Kumar
8 years ago
sad state of being.
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