Partly Facetious: A new breed of politicians

05 Mar, 2019

"There is one man who has benefited from the most recent Indian adventurism or to be more accurate mis-adventurism."
"Any gains Modi may have accumulated after the claim, unverified let me emphasize, dissipated once Pakistan responded militarily."
"True, but you know I wasn't referring to Modi."
"Oh, then perhaps you were referring to Modi's opposition in the country, Congress I and other political parties opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party whose philosophy in government has been at odds with secularism, a principle previous Indian administrations were at pains to emphasize given the country's multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic population..."
"The world is a-changing my friend - a new breed of politicians has erupted on the world scene - those who are racist, uni-cultural, uni-religious..."
"I wasn't aware uni-cultural or uni-religious were words."
"They should be as they reflect the views of many heads of government - no longer can we limit this to Israel and its approach to the Palestinians but Trump has emerged as a leader who was elected because of his racism, uni-cultural and uni-religious approach to politics..."
"And you reckon Modi falls into the same mould?"
"Yes and then there is Viktor Oban of Hungary."
"I see."
"And these men are supporting each other at international forums and their numbers are rising."
"I don't see how you can say these guys benefited from the Indian mis-adventure?"
"Oh, I wasn't referring to them at all. When I said one man benefited from Modi's mis-adventure I was referring to none other than our very own Fawad Chaudhry; and let us be reminded that he is politically astute, more so then The Khan's rather large media advisory group and..."
"I thought he was being fired, oh I see the firing has been stayed cause The Khan became focused on Modi's mis-adventure!"
"Precisely, and meanwhile FC has mobilized all members of public entities which are under the administrative control of his ministry to start a social media campaign urging the Nobel committee to award the peace prize to The Khan and I heard he has successfully collected 300,000 supporters and..."
"Is that all? I mean the PTI has a lot more supporters or members of the social media..."
"Remember the Urdu poem which states that each drop of water has a role in making a river and..."
"Oh dear! And The Khan is happy?"
"FC still has his job, doesn't he?"

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