ULTAPULTA
Muscle tone
Jaspal Bhatti

ALL office-bearers of the District Congress at Jalandhar will have to undergo a compulsory 10-day intensive health course to build their muscles and learn judo.

A sceptic like me can have illusions of violent elections ahead with a formidable show of muscle power. Could be when Shamsher Singh Dullo instructed his party cadres to get ready for a tough fight in the coming Assembly elections, his men literally took weights and dumbbells in their hands.

Let’s see what kind of training camps Badal and co. will set up to counter them. We will have to see if they would stick to their traditional martial "Gatka" or hire coaches from Japan and China to train their men in Kung Fu or Tae Kwon do.

Imagine Sukhbir Badal asking the senior Badal "Dad, do we also need to make a manifesto this time?" Going back to the last byelections in Ajanala where they knocked turbans off each others head, I don’t think the parties need to work much on development issues. Muscle power is the need of the hour.

I asked a politician what was the need to tone up your own muscles when you can hire muscle power. "God forbid, if the Election Commission really bans the goonda elements, then we will have to use our own muscles", he justified.

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