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I had the oppotunity to visit this cemetry earlier this year. This plot is
good for a couple of slim high rise buildings. Our ministers should
seriously think of getting in on the action. More fukot. Chamchas please
convey this information. But perhaps, its already been carved up.
venantius
Queens Road in Bombay was the site of a large Anglican cemetery that had
not been used in a hundred years. When a Union Minister, S.K. Patil visited
London, and personally sought the gift that produced the really nice children's
park that now occupies the landmark.
S. K. was Bombay's post independence Mayor for fifteen years. His power
base was the business - elite dominated BPCC - Bombay Pradesh Congress Comm., a
function he inherited from Morarjee, the former Bombay State CM. He was the
sole party link to the Birla-Mundhra cartel and that money lifeline to Delhi.
Much loved by us, he lived simply, and was always above reproach. SK was
despised by Nehru's Soviet handlers, but the fox succumbed to political reality
and finally Patil him into his Cabinet.
When the right - wing group of six CM's, called the 'Syndicate', could not
decide on a successor to our Lenin, they settled on Indira as a harmless
stopgap, until the next general election. SK/Morarjee struck first, and denied
commie Krishna Menon a party ticket to contest in North Bombay, his seat for
twenty years. Indu retaliated by inviting us to vote for George Fernandes, the
Socialist candidate for SK's seat in South Bombay.
Fernandes was a powerful labour union demagogue, and we had campaigned
against him as though our lives were at stake. Netters Steve P., Ed P., A.
Andre A. manned the phone lines at Patil campaign HQ, the home of Ram Jagtiani.
We were crushed when Fernandes won, knowing that the Russian agent, Karanjia of
Blitz fame, could claim an equal role in helping pull it off for him.
Morarjee had a safe Gujerat seat vacated and sent SK back to Parliament.
His campaign slogan had been 'aj Banaskata, kal Raj', but Indira was not about
to wait : she fired Morarjee as Finanance Minister, seized private banks, and
the rest would become two decades of painful socialist degradation of our
nation. eric
