Don’t send wrong message to students
Pune mayor Mohansingh Rajpal loves to make headlines. Recently, he was invited for a programme in an educational institute. While addressing the students, he created a flutter by calling an educationist in the city as Pune’s Swami Vivekananda. Well, no doubt, the educationist has created a huge empire in the field of education but the mayor bestowing the title on him was a bit too much. Someone needs to tell him that he should not exaggerate while praising people and send a wrong message to students.
Caught on the wrong foot
A renowned spiritual personality was the chief guest at a function. There was heavy police bandobast at the venue from 7 am onwards while the event started at 9 am. When the discourse started, the police personnel took a break. While they were relaxing in a corner and eating bananas, a vehicle of a senior police officer arrived at the venue. The policemen were surprised as the visit was unannounced. They were bewildered and did not know where to hide their bananas. They thought it was a surprise check. It was only when the officer left that the policemen got to know that the officer had come to meet the spiritual leader and not to keep tabs on them.
Sound advice
Many existing corporators are in the fray for the forthcoming municipal corporation elections. These corporators are making rounds of the households in their wards ‘reminding’ the voters of the work they have done. Interestingly, various entertainment events for women are top on the list of the ‘work’ they have executed. At many such events, paithani sarees are distributed to women. During such an event, a corporator was shocked when a woman lost her cool and alleged that the paithani sarees were not original. Another woman advised him to ‘work’ rather than distribute paithanis. “We elected you to solve our day to day problems and not to entertain us,’’ she said.
Political fever
Last week, Pimpri-Chinchwad was a spectacle in itself due to the election fever. With political hopefuls leaving no stone unturned to flex their political and money muscle, expensive cars and impromptu bike, car rallies with the local young men were doing the rounds in the township. Needless to say, these rallies caused inconvenience to commuters. This lead to some of them to chuckle, “Even before they get elected, the politicians are out to make our lives miserable.’’
Contributed by Manasi Saraf Joshi, Chaitraly Deshmukh, Archana Dahiwal and Partha Sarathi Biswas. Compiled by Bhagyashree Kulthe
