The Annual Bureaucrats Roundtable before 2019 Indian Elections

Looking for work creates opportunity. And this is how I became a chowkidar with additional charge of chai supply. Proud to tell you that I was recently appointed as head chowkidar at a discussion between different padhe-likhe (highly educated) secretaries just before election summer of 2019.Visual setting was directly copied from 12 Angry Men, Ek Ruka Hua Faisla or The Tashkent Files set up

[Chair]: So gentlemen, how is the josh?

[Chorus mein sab]: High boss…

[Chair]: So what have we achieved?

[Indian history secretary]: sir, India saw a non-congress majority NDA government which is a key milestone in the glorious journey of our nation. History will remember this chowkidari BJP government headed by aM (self-personified-glorified-fantasied acronym) as someone who took monumental decisions, made huge media spending and made this century’s best marketing slogans…

Pause in the room

[Time-pass babu]: is baat pe chai naashta lagwao sir… samose garam garam patanjali wale

[Chair]: ok…berozgar chowkidar … bring whatever is the their wish!  

ME: chai kaun si sir?

[Chair]: Progressive brand

So guys, are we meeting 2014 targets as committed in BJP manifesto except Ram Mandir (as matter is sub-judice)?

[Employment secretary]: YES sir. Security sector is booming with self-employed over-confident Cs (chowkidars). Not just bottom of pyramid, security sector has also created billionaires thanks to purchase of Rafale. And virtual world is also employing in high numbers. All media talks about its growth under the aM leadership. And what I know, even they are short of security experts due to un-con-trollable security buzz.  

[Chair]: Par data kya bolta hai?  

[Employment secretary]: Data is WIP sir. Since there are so many of these chowkidars in the market now, vlookup is taking time.

[Chair]: Ok. What about manufacturing?

[Trade secretary]: Under the leadership of aM , our lath (hard long stick which gives pain when received with a force) industry is growing out of bounds. Lath units under (self-empowerment > elected govt power yojna) of BJP govt are flourishing everywhere. And these are being exported as well.

[Chair]: How come?

[Travel secretary]: Sir aM has travelled extensively across globe. Originally that was done to find solution to travelling salesman problem but as a by-product has established the lath as must have product in arsenal category, not just in western world but also in remote parts of CIS region. From US to Mongolia, Indians are in demand for their unmatched chowkidari skills. And wherever we have these Cs, laths are in demand. aM is a growth hacker sir.   

[Scientist babu]: I think after Steve Jobs, aM is the guy to look out for in innovation and go to market strategies. A true entrepreneur. He is a magician ; I think he can turn corn into unicorn sir.

ME: should I bring chai sir?

[Chair]: Meeting is going good. Replace chai with coffee.

ME: coffee kaun si brand ki sir?

[Chair]: True leader brand

But, are our neighbours happy?

[Foreign secretary]: Yes sir, except P. That was excepted after our surgical strikes which only aM could have highlighted and advertised.

[Chair]: What about China?

[Foreign secretary]: Oh they are very happy sir. More than 50% of smartphone market is occupied by Chinese. As we speak, Indian content is watched more and more on Chinese made TVs. They have even allowed Indians to visit Arunachal Pradesh peacefully while drowning money in P (with CPEC highway) and in Sri Lanka (port infra). Foolishly they are now also contemplating to invest in second genx of JF Thunder fighter jet… I don’t understand who gives them these bad ideas…  

[Chair]: And western world?

[Foreign secretary]: They love India especially its low cost labour. Walmart and Amazon are heavily invested in India and are super aggressive to disrupt retail and leftist trade unions.

[Chair]: But what should we assess about equation of power in Indian subcontinent after dogfight?

[Defence secretary]: We have yet again shown the world that Mig21-Bis can drown F16. Whole world assess us as strong powerful military nation. All because of chowkidar sir. Indians finally move from snake charmer perception & slumdog millionaire genre to be famous for its chowkidari efficiency.  

[Chair]: But how do we defend Rafale especially after all hype in procurement?

[Procurement secretary]: That’s a tactical thing – we need them especially after IAF lost 6 planes in 2019. Illiterate opposition does even know Shreemad Bhagwat Geeta learnings that any phal (fruit) takes time. And Raphal is also a fruit of karm (hardwork done by French group and smart dedicated expert team of Ambanis).

ME: should I bring coffee sir?

[Chair]: Meeting is going good. Replace coffee with French wine.

ME: wine kaun si brand ki sir?

[Chair]: Foolish you are to my amazement. Obviously Dassault, Rafale manufacturers before Ambanis. We must have a free lot of wine samples, just like, Tony Stark gave away complimentary bar of bottles after weapons deal (before he became Ironman)!

Let us come to hard numbers. Money! I want to know impact of Aadhar, GST and Demonetization.

[Finance secretary]: Lots of work has happened sir.

(a) People have become more fit after standing in Sun during demonetization thus increasing long term demographic dividend of India and raising India’s credit rating in the eyes of IMF. We now can get easy loans for longer durations for our basic needs like bullet trains & hyperloops.

(b) For the first time in Independdent India, creativity and currency have been merged in a cohesive unit to bring colour in lives of masses. Happiness is believed to have arrive in everyone’s life, even colour blind.

(c) GST has increased vision of small scale traders and now everyone wants to be Ambani. Only aM could have pulled the dreams and up the ante from miniscule daily goals to long term fancy desires. aM is a borne-leader after borne-ultimatum.

(d) Aadhar has provided KYC to fasten up (voluntarily) and we have seen a surge in new bank accounts openings in which we can put as high as 15 lakhs once we get back from Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallaya

[Chair]: I can sense that all humanity is happy. All credits to aM , the superhuman. I hope he must have extended wellness to animals as well?

[Animal planet secretary]: Totally mooh sir. Cows are treated at par with foreign ambassadors and just like we have dedicated inter-ministry committee to address them, we have a dedicated ministry to cows.

[Chair]: Chowkidar replace wine with chachh or lassi. I think India is on its way to become a superpower…

Me: But sssrrr

We don’t have clean water to prepare these?

[Chair]: Why? Why these small things can’t be taken off? Where is the waterman?

[Paani paani secretary]: Sir, actually namami gange project is producing too pure water to consume. Coupled with pure air in Delhi, water is not fit of human consumption. Delhi police under home ministry has also issued advisory. And only consent of Lieutenant Governor can give deviation.

[Chair]: Who will monitor this now?

Silence…..

Me: May I sir,

Besides, this election is not about chai or any consumable drink or roti(food)/kapda(wearable dignity)/makaan(social security)/dukaan ya rozgaar (employment), but chowkidari [MONITORING THE STATUS QUO]

Under aM leadership, only thing is common for us between 2014 and 2019 is C [in capital bold letters]