“So the twenty-seventh amendment is not coming from somewhere else?”
“Straight from the horse’s mouth.”
“Hey Tarar sahib, the Law Minister is not a horse, perhaps the two toned zebra…”
“Interesting.”
“What is interesting?”
“A zebra is black and white — so in political parlance that means opinionated and…”
“Let it go my friend anyway going back to what I referred to notably that the twenty-seventh amendment is not coming from somewhere else…”
“And I said straight from the horse’s mouth, and you referred to a zebra…”
“Right, but the statement was made by the Deputy Prime Minister…”
“Who gets more coverage than the Man He Deputizes For.”
“If you think you can sow discord…”
“I know, not happening.”
“Don’t presuppose what I am going to say. What I meant to say was that the discord maybe there, but the Supremo would sooner …… his own brother than…”
“Gotcha, but the twenty-seventh amendment promoters or shall I say stakeholders want the man Who He Deputizes for to stay, and he is dispensable.”
“I am not sure, I agree with that. I mean from the finance minister to….ah, I see what you are referring to: a promotion to Deputy prime Minister.”
“Indeed, so when he said the amendment is not coming from somewhere else he meant what precisely?”
“I guess he is a hybrid denyer and that is akin to the Holocaust denyer – which is a criminal offence in the West though the Palestinian genocide denying Western administrations refer to it as hate crime and…”
“So you reckon a portfolio change?”
“One or two portfolio drops amongst, so many, would be more than enough, but I reckon the statement was made after discussions and clearance and…”
“Cool.”
“How cool?”
“The best cool ever, minty.”
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