Dosa for Sonia, problem for Lalu
After all those pizza jokes, imagine
what Sonia Gandhi wanted in the Central Hall of Parliament: to eat a dosa. But unfortunately, in spite of the DMK being a partner in the government, no dosa was readily available for Sonia. Congress MPs got upset with the Railway Minister as it is the Railways which caters to the stomachs of MPs in Central Hall. Congress parliamentarians rushed to complain to the redoubtable Lalu about the lack of a dosa and asked why one was not there to appease their leader’s palate.
But the comedy didn’t end there. Sonia had decided to spend at least two hours in Central Hall every session, to interact with MPs. Seeing her hungry, Girija Vyas, chairperson of the National Women’s Commission, hoped that a
glass of
water would temporarily appease Sonia before her dosa arrived. But the water fell on Sonia’s sari by mistake, when the glass fell from the fingers of a nervous Vyas. Irritated, Sonia got up and left without her dosa.
She must have been missing the old days when she would drive to her favourite South Indian restaurant, Royal Dakshin on Mehrauli Road, and order appams and dosas. Lalu Yadav has ordered that dosa be served on demand to MPs from Friday onwards.