Vol. 6 | Issue 8 | November 2012
Bric-a-brac
marks & remarks
Mausam for motherhood
refuses cabinet berth
MPs
and Ministers and other probables waited for a telephone call from the
Cabinet Secretary asking them to come for the swearing-in on Sunday
morning at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The first call went to the pretty and
soft spoken Mausam Noor, the MP from Malda in West Bengal. But much to
the shock and horror of the person speaking to her, she declined the
invitation to be a minister. She said she was pregnant and not in a
position to become a minister at this stage. She recommended that her
mamu A H Khan Chaudhary, the brother of Barkat Ghani Khan Chaudhary
should instead be made a minister in her place. This is probably the
first example of an MP sacrificing a berth in the council of ministers
for motherhood. It’s a lesson to many of our senior and greedy ministers
who want more, more and still more.
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