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Punchline by Buffa

It's all salt and no pepper now. Almost. But the old war horse and fire brand Vasu has still some verve left in him. A few beads round his neck and he could be mistaken for some guru chanting a manthram to restore virility. That's what the CMC needs right now. Someone to give her that gloss and sheen that was fitting enough to welcome a Queen in the T. Rudra era.

If Rudra burnt his boats by doing just that - felicitating the Queen - it also paved the way for Dr. NM. The doctor's panacea of rectitude soon got him into hot water and out went N.M. The door was secured for the Left never to return and the Grand Old Party has ruled the roost ever since, for half a century. But now comes Vasu.

There he is like the Pied Piper playing his tune and they are coming out in droves from their hovels and squalor - not rodents but people. Will there come a day soon, for us to witness Governor Alavi and Mayor Vasu doing their constitutional at Lipton Circus? It's going to be a hard grind. Those who are bleeding the CMC are ganging up to fight the cleaning up op. People will gather at Lipton Circus nonetheless.

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