CON-DEMN-OCRACY !

Q-17

2012-06-01T07:43:00.002-07:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Manmohan Singh offering to quit if charges in the Coalgate are proved ?

a) Training is complete. Man! he is parroting lines like a natural

b) He is offering to quit as Prime Minister......Is he?

c) Why can't he just be frank and admit that he needs all the coal to keep the South Block warm
for Chhote Sarkar

Q-16

2011-02-16T21:39:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Manmohan Singh, in a press conference, saying that wrongdoings/scams are by-products of coalition politics ?

a) Husband is spine-less. Wife is conscience-less. Raja, Vilas, Ashok, Suresh, Sharad grow up as
     scums, nee scams, because they are orphans despite having parents; by-products of the great
     Indian coalition

b) Sonia should not be accused because she is not in the government. She is only the power
     behind the throne. Manmohan Singh should not be accused because wrong-doings/scams are
     by-products of coalition politics

     BOSS ! WHOM ARE THEY KIDDING ? THE GENTLE SARDAR IS MAKING CH-T- - -
     OF THE COUNTRY (For public consumption, the word is 'chutney')

c)   Friends, Indians, countrymen ! Mubarak ! An Egyptian is out of work and looking for a job.
     What say you ? (Poor Egyptian people - they do not know what their revolution for democracy
     will get them into)

Q-15

2011-01-31T06:31:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Rahul Gandhi saying that incidents such as those of Nanded (burning alive of Additional Collector, Yashwant Sonawane) should not be repeated ?

a) BOFORS was never repeated; FODDER was never repeated; CHURHAT was never repeated;
ADARSH will never be repeated; COMMONWEALTH will never be repeated; 2G will never
be repeated

b) Crime is like a dynasty. Faces change

c) Honesty should never be repeated

Q-14

2011-01-30T02:26:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about the Maharashtra Government arresting 200 people connected with kerosene adulteration racket, within hours of the tragedy of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane being burnt alive?

a) Police custody & Government protection will ensure that they are kept away from the potential
     wrath of angry mobs & potential disclosures to the media

b) Only if they are on its payrolls or if it is on their payrolls, would it have been possible to be in
     possession of the names, addressess & whereabouts for such an immediate action

c) For all his honesty, Yashwant Sonawane was a square peg in a hole where cricket is
     adulterated with politics, politics is adulterated with crime, crime is adulterated with
     business & business is adulterated with cricket

Q-13

2011-01-13T01:22:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Sonia Gandhi asking Congress Ministers to give up discretionary powers?

a) It is akin to expecting carnivorous animals to subsist on grass & leaves

b) Can she give up Quattrochi to the CBI?

c) Can the Central Government give up control over the CBI and allow it to function in a fair
and just way?

Q-12

2011-01-03T04:12:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about the report by Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) that says flats at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Village, each sold for Rs 2 crores, are so shoddily built that their life span may not be more than 20 years ?

a)   It should not have taken a CBRI report for us to believe. The fact that Kalmadi or any of his
     Organising-Committee colleagues or officials of DDA or the Chief Minister of Delhi or her
     ministerial colleagues or for that matter former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ashok
     Chavan or his relatives or senior officials of Army etc do not own any of those flats, should
     have raised our suspicions

b) CBI may refuse to lay its hands on this case since all evidence stands to collapse & get
     destroyed after 20 years, thereby hampering its investigations further into it

c) We are unnecessarily being cynical. Should we expect the Taj Mahal in Rs 2 crores, that can
     stand the ravages of time? 20 years is good enough life-span. There are flyovers and bridges
     that have collapsed while under construction

Q-11

2011-01-02T00:41:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about the conviction in a trial court of Dr Binayak Sen?

a) We are dealing with naxalism by 'trial' & 'error'

b) If all those voicing their opinion against the judgement are India's intellectuals, does it mean
that those who have delivered the judgement lack intellect?

c) Had this verdict happened in China, Dr Sen would have been conferred the Nobel Peace Prize

Q-10

2011-01-01T03:00:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about CBI's closure of the Arushi murder case?

a) There is no clarity whether CBI is ruthless or toothless....or is it toothlessly ruthless....or is it
ruthlessly toothless......so confusing!

b) There is hope for Kalmadi and Raja..........

c) In India, 'Crime is.. because hope is..'

Q-9

2010-12-31T01:15:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about the Congress MPs from Telangana sitting on an indefinite fast, 3 days after which the State Congress Government met their demand of withdrawing all cases against students ?

a) Though the 'stock' of Congress has gone up in Telangana (thereby taking the TRS by surprise),
in stock-exchange parlance, this is called 'insider trading' & is illegal

b) It is so very easy to take (m)asses for a ride with pre-scripted reality shows

c) The Congress which once upon a time gave us 'Satyagraha' now gives us 'Mithyagraha'

Q-8

2010-12-29T22:56:00.000-08:00

In the context of the entire opposition's relentless demand of a JPC probe into 2G scam, what is so con-demn-ocratic about Manmohan Singh's statement that Julius Caesar's wife should be above suspicion?

a) He is wife to Julius Caesar i.e Sonia Gandhi, who too is a Roman

b) In coalition politics, the majority party is always wife to the ally, on whose support, the
     former is dependent

c) Had the BJP been in power, then the statement would have been "Ram's wife Sita should
     always be above suspicion"

Q-7

2010-12-26T21:09:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Ratan Tata lobbying for a particular minister, as per the Radia tapes?

a) It is 'bye bye' for business ethics

b) Other industrialists are atleast honest about having to be dishonest in India

c) Criminalization of politics is out; corporatization of politics is in

Q-6

2010-12-25T03:08:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Chandrababu Naidu's indefinite fast, to highlight farmers' plight?

a) He has conveniently turned his 'starvation' of power into 'fast' for farmers

b) There are millions in rural India who will be too happy to be bundled into an ambulance,
taken to hospitals and forcibly fed

c) When he was Chief Minister for 9 years, no Congress leader had the guts to go on an indefinite
fast to highlight farmers' plight

Q-5

2010-12-23T03:58:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Barkha Dutt and other journalists featuring in the Nira Radia-tapes?

a) Fourth estate has become the 'real' estate. There is too much moolah to make per square ft of
     space in public consciousness

b) Unlike Azharuddin, journalists cannot be banned for life for 'fixing' interviews

c) Who cares for a ban? They may be rehabilitated as MPs and may even go onto beome....
     telecom ministers

Q-4

2010-11-29T21:16:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Yeddyurappa being continued as Chief Minister despite scams & charges of nepotism?

a) In Indian iconography, the most popular image of Goddess Lakshmi is the one of Her
standing/sitting on lotus

b) Lotus cannot remain untouched by the muddy swamp around it

c) India's political geography is altered. Bihar is Karnataka; Karnataka is Bihar

Q-3

2010-11-26T01:59:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about having a 'Save Our Treasury' campaign (on the lines of 'Save Our Tigers' campaign) in the wake of CWG & 2G scams?

a) It will be sponsored & issued in Indian public interest by the Swiss Bankers Association

b) Congress may yet again need DMK's support in 2014

c) Bid-for-Olympics campaign

Q-2

2010-11-24T06:42:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about learning from the 'Save Our Tigers' ad that there are only 1411 tigers left in our country?

a) The number of honest politicians we have is much less

b) There may soon be 'Save Our Treasury' campaign

c) Poachers Ashok Chavan, A Raja, Suresh Kalmadi will ultimately be saved

Q-1

2010-11-23T00:14:00.000-08:00

What is so con-demn-ocratic about Manmohan Singh's inaction & silence for 16 months?

a) Sonia Gandhi's 'behind-the-throne' inaction & silence for an equal period

b) People of the country will not be able to take action till another 42 months

c) There doesn't exist an action