As speculation continues over the cost of the garland, ranging from 21 lakh to 22 crores, its to be noted that BSP events are marked only by the amount of money spent. Jazzy solid gold crowns and swords, hundereds of statues, paisi ki malas, its all paisa vasool by BSP, given voluntarily by the kindly souls of UP ofcourse.

Behenji, if you can see beyond the moolah, looks almost beatific...on a higher spritual plane! Getting over this small talk...nothing is too much for the beatific smile of behenji!

I have to confess though, that the other day, I had found the garland resplendent, thinking it to be made of some particularly exotic breed of flowers (until I read the caption below the picture). One cant help but be awed at the craftsmenship of the garland makers, equally at ease with 1000 rupee notes as with 50 paise worth of local roses. Now we know why we had to pay astronomical prices for a string of flowers on Ugadi.....everyone was busy stringing 1000 rupee notes into Mayawati behens garland!

I believe that the saying...'ones weight in gold' needs a bit of tweeking. Our trend setting Maya behen has gone ahead and decided that crispy red notes make for a far better method of extortion than gold or God forbid, rupee coins that her ancient colleques preferred. The IT department feels the same way and so there is some talk of them 'taking cognizance of the issue'.

This also explains the foolish antics of BSP government post the recent stampede. Obviously the state coffers are empty, most spent on making marble likenesses of 'behenji' and the rest ceremoniously strung around her neck! Its afterall the safest place for the money and to hell with the stampede victims...

Whoever heard of recession? Ooops....we are already recovering, and if this is not a proof of that, then what will be?