Parliament on Tuesday was witness to the Lalu Prasad Yadav of yore, using wit, humour and some drama to capture the attention of the House and to leave Congress leaders squirming in their seats.
The occasion was the discussion on the Presidential Address. Positioning himself as a jilted lover, Lalu raised his face to the Treasury benches and said: “Matlab nikal gaya to pehchante nahin (your purpose served, you don’t even acknowledge me)”.
The touch of pathos to define the Congress indifference towards him devastatingly complete, Lalu paused for effect. While a stoic Prime Minister Manmohan Singh looked on, Sonia Gandhi, Lalu’s ally of 10 years, squirmed and smiled, covering half her face with her hand. The other occupants of the Treasury benches seemed as embarrassed.
However, there was no stopping the man they had unleashed on the other side much too often during the last five years. “I was a freelancer of the Congress for 10 years,” Lalu said, pouring his heart out. “The insulting treatment meted out to us by some Congress people is not good.”
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