Women in the house..!
Robert Clements
With the Women’s Reservation Bill soon to become an act, I can imagine
changes in the attitude of our elected representatives in the near
future as they realize Parliament will soon have hundreds of the fairer
sex thronging its otherwise boring portals!
“My makeup bill will go up by seventy five percent!” sighed an old MP
ruffling his bald head, “I’ll have to cut down on expenditure for my
constituency and spend instead on my beautician, hairdresser, manicurist
and pedicurist!”
“What will you cut down on sir?” asked his worried PA.
“That bridge which we laid the inaugural stone for last week, I am sure
the villagers can wade through the river for a few years more, I won’t
build those three schools and also that hospital in my village, delete
them from my list!”
“But you will lose many votes sir!” “Bah! Who’s bothered about silly
votes, women matter more!”
His wife was livid! “You say you will be spending more time in
Parliament?” she shouted, “then how will I take the children to school
without the official car? How will I buy vegetables without your PA,
your assistants and secretary helping me out? Who will see that my
brother’s daughter and my cousin’s son get admission in the local school
if you are not here?”
“My country comes first!” said the MP. “How is it your country never
came first before?”
“It always came first!” said the MP as he hurriedly fixed an appointment
with the hairdresser, “but now it is coming more first!” “Where are you
going?” “To the hairdresser!” “But you have no hair to cut?”
“There is a new process to grow hair!” “But that is a costly process!”
“Ask your brother for a small donation to put his daughter in school,
and your cousin for a loan!” And in the corridors of power some elected
representatives were huddled in a corner listening to a learned
colleague reading from a hard bound book, “What is the book?” asked the
Speaker curiously as he passed by.
“Etiquette and Manners..!” said a junior MP and the Speaker smiled and
thought,
“It’s going to be a Women’s Reservation Bill which will finally see more
work transacted in Parliament than ever before and a new bunch of polite
and courteous MP’s! Cherchez la femme..!”
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