“Ki…ki…ki…ki…ki…!”
“Don’t try that on me, ok? I’m not at all afraid of
you!”
“Ki…ki…ki…ki…ki…Kiran!”
“How you convinced the Congress to support its
bitter foes ever I don’t know. But never try such tricks on us now. No way! You’ve
seen it from the very beginning.”
“How could you do this to me?”
“It is the result of what you have been doing all
the time.”
“We had the same mentor, same ideals and fought for
the same noble cause.”
“And you left the same mentor high and dry, used him
for your relentless ambitions at all possible levels—local, regional, national
and international.”
“You cannot deny my basic objective—cleaning the
system from within. I was so committed and tried my best.”
“And so you ran away from running the government. Being
the ruling leader you still sat and slept on the streets to carry on what
goddamn objectives I could hardly understand.”
“You must understand why. ‘Central’ circumstances
forced me to do so. I had no options. I had
to make sure that the Bill was passed. No Bill left me only with chills…and I fell
sick also as you know. My commitment…”
“You also must understand that in a democracy things
take time to shape up and finally happen. You made full use of democratic traditions
for our mentor’s movement and then sacrificed the same for your next national
ambitions. You cheated the very people you wanted to give a clean and
corruption-free system.”
“Don’t be so cruel, ki…ki..ki… And don’t be so
overconfident too. You had your share too and now you’ve done the same thing that
I did so early and with so much vision and foresight.”
“Wow!...Look Kejri! Your whole philosophy has always
been negative. Within your party you did only negative things, offended your
loyal supporters and made them leave the ideals and the party. You talk about
my step now! Do you know what stuff I have been made of? I have decades of
experience in admin, management and social activism too. I know how to work and
how to get work done…”
“Bragging is not so healthy, milady. Nothing can
take away the fact that you’ve joined one of the same groups that we’ve been
opposing tooth and nail together. You’ve done what you’ve done. Take that for
sure.”
“You see…things have changed a lot since then. Now we
have a leader who is both inspiring and even spiritual. He is the future; he is
the visionary for our country. We need stable governments in every corner to
help him succeed. He has convinced me to take my social activism to a different
level, and now I will have the opportunity to serve people directly…”
“Okay…okay. But just don’t write me off as yet. You see
there is a natural progression in the graph of success for any historic
personality. What I’ve done so far is not that insignificant. I ruled over for
49 days…maybe next time I will achieve the milestone of 100 days…and maybe next
time…”
“You’ll never change, my historic visionary! The anarchist
in you will never allow you to see reason and logic. You’ve termed us as the ‘sinking
ship’ while hardly understanding the obvious fact that you’ve already started
you journey of going down and down…”
“Enough, milady, enough! See you on the
battleground!”
“Oh sure! This time we are going to teach how to be
reasonable.”
“Mention not! People know me what stuff I am made of
and they will never tolerate any humiliation meted out to me.”
“Count first how many of you party-men and
supporters are going to remain with you. Then talk…”
“Mention not!”
