Today, The Gandhi family officially launched their Gen five from Priyanka - Rehan (7) and Maira (5) during the auspicious occasion of “"canvassing for mama" . The new offering from Gandhi family was escorted by an old loyal former pradhan of Chandosi gram sabha Kanhaiya. Even though nation has no doubts about capabilities of any new product from Gandhi Family, Mr. Singh humbly summed up their capabilities with an old Awadhi saying,
"Kathi ki bili bhi gungunati hai (even a cat in the house of a katha singer knows how to hum)."
He didnot clarify if it only hums or whether it catches mice also? I guess being Katha Singers cat brings its own benefits.
He also added how they needed no tutoring
"the two took to meeting people like fish takes to water". . "Gandhi parivar ke bachcho ko bhala kya samjhane ki zaroorat hai (where's the need to train a Gandhi kid),"
Of course, who would disagree. Its all ingrained and preprogrammed into the special genes some may say pedigree. The villagers narrate stories of how one of them used to fly rockets even when he was 10 years old. I am sure it might be an exaggeration but as in case of Katha Singers cat who knows?
Like a consummate politician, Little Rehan had a busy day, he hit it off with elders by bending down and touching their feet….. of course without any prompting(at least visible) and then parting with a crisp one-liner: "Rahul mama ko zaroor vote dijiye (please vote for Uncle Rahul)." Rehan, while walking the lanes of Hardoia, a Dalit dominated area, stopped by an ailing old man. He inched closer, looked at the man and asked, "How are you uncle?" before repeating the all-important message. The children even walked into huts to meet and chat up veiled women who were reluctant to come out in presence of village seniors.
Its a proud day for the nation. The awestruck audience at Amethi watched with their mouths wide open. The Media gathered for witnessing the special occasion has gone hyper with Joy. Some of the anchors were seen weeping with joy, some even fainted at first sight of Gen 5. There is no truth in usual opposition canard that the degree of fainting/weeping was directly proportional to advertisement revenue from Government of India.
I only hope “Maira” changes her name when traveling to Kerala!! I can only imagine the face of Anthony trying to call the girl by her name………