Delhi Underground: In a sweet spot
Express news service : Sep 24 2012, 00:28 IST
After the emphatic victory of the NSUI in the recent Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) polls, the Congress councillors in the BJP-ruled North Municipal Corporation distributed sweets in the civic agency’s House. This caught the majority of BJP councillors, including Mayor Mira Aggarwal, in a piquant situation because the party’s student wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), had lost all the three top DUSU posts to the NSUI and has been alleging that the polls have been rigged. Hesitantly, the BJP councillors picked a sweet or two from the boxes, but the mayor managed to wriggle out of the tight spot. Aggarwal politely refused, saying it goes against decorum to have food in the House when a session is in progress.
Stand at ease
They don’t often come across murderers who are former soldiers and haven’t forgotten “military protocol”. A senior Delhi Police officer found out, albeit to his utter surprise, about military discipline when his juniors produced a former Armyman accused of shooting dead a doctor in New Rajendra Nagar. As the retired Army gunner was brought in for questioning, he gave the Additional Commissioner of Police a proper Army salute — stood there with his chin up, chest high and legs together. “I was in the Army and I know the discipline. You are a senior officer and I have to treat you like one,” he said when told to stand at ease.
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