EGG ON HIS FACE??????

Talk about starting with a bang and ending with a whimper and Amritsar Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Navjot Singh Sidhu's antics surely come to mind...... The MP had made a grandiose announcement about going on a fast unto death as the powers that be in the Punjab government (read the badal father and son) were cold shouldering his parliamentary constituency and playing truant when it came to announcing development projects in the same....... What must be duly noted is the fact that none of the state or central BJP leadership was around to lend Sidhu a helping hand or supporting shoulder when he made this unilateral announcement; one is given to understand that the BJP party president Rajnath Singh did indeed have a telephonic conversation with Mr.Sidhu about the futility of his gesture and tried to dissuade him from doing the same, but then washed his hands off the entire unsavoury episode when the former test cricketer put his foot down........ And so began the tale of Navjot Singh Sidhu's much touted "fast unto death" that wound up within a mere six hours or so on Saturday evening with a letter expressly written by the Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal reassuring the Amritsar MP about the incumbent government's avowed commitment to making Amritsar only second to Chandigarh in terms of development and infrastructure related projects within the next eighteen to twenty four months or so......... One may do well to recall the fact that the deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had very recently reaffirmed his party's intention about making Amritsar "a model of modern development and historical antiquity" (whatever that meant) and also went on to say that tens of major and minor development projects amounting to thousands of crores were on the anvil in the next eighteen months or so......... Will the erudite and effervescent Navjot Singh Sidhu enlighten us as to why he did not take the son's announcement at face value when he was more than willing to wind up his his "fast unto death" within a mere six to seven hours after it's commencement as soon as he received a letter purportedly written by the chief minister of the riparian state......... Wasn't the very same Mr. Sidhu aware of the fact that the son was the real power centre in the coalition government and the father had all but entrusted the administrative responsibilities unto the shoulders of his much younger and far more capable son in view of his advancing years and old age related infirmities......... Whatever it was, the only thing that one can say with a degree of certainty is that Mr. Sidhu ended up with egg all over his face while the Badal duo walked away with all the credit and plaudits for bringing the much neglected Amritsar into the national glare and media limelight once again......... Or then was this amateurish attempt at a face unto death a desperate ploy by the Amritsar MP whose "wanted" posters were put up at many a vantage point by concerned constituents as the MP had been missing in action from his constituency for an inordinately long time on account of his numerous media and television related professional commitments........... One down, many more to come Mr. Sidhu, as this attempt to curry favour with your constituents ended with you falling flat on your face, reinvent yourself and ingratiate yourself with your voters real soon or you might just find yourself relegated to the already formidable number of former or ex Members of Parliament within the next six to seven months or so..........