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Colour of money
Jaspal Bhatti

WHEN we perform Lakshmi puja for our prosperity, we never specify hey Lakshmi maa, mujjhe sirf white money dena (O Goddess Lakshmi, please give me only white money), unless some minimum white money is required for buying a property. It’s about time we invented some gods of black money. Some of the Income Tax officers work day and night to unearth black money for two reasons — one to raise the rightful tax funds for our country and the other to raise their personal income that has to be always black.

I always hold Swiss banks in high esteem because they never look down on people who possess black money. For them black and white money have equal status. L.K. Advani recently stated the black money stashed in Swiss banks should be brought back. Maybe it is a kind of warning to the super-rich people what their money is doing in the foreign banks when it is needed here for campaigning by the poor netas.

Kapil Sibal, a senior Congress leader, has commented that Advani should take care of the money he has. Maybe what Kapil means, "You mind your own black money, we mind our own." Jaswant Singh of the BJP was caught on the camera distributing currency notes. He should have distributed post-dated cheques to keep his saaf-suthri (neat & clean) image intact.

Final advice: Big parties must save their black money to buy MPs for post-election government formation. Don’t tell me later I didn’t remind you.





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