Delhi Underground: Dirty picture

An AAP MLA turned up at the Delhi Secretariat to enquire from a senior bureaucrat about the installation of a transformer in his constituency. But during the meeting, heated words were exchanged between the two. The bureaucrat reportedly asked him, “You are speaking to me like this right now. I wonder if this is the tone you take with the CM.”

More water, please

As the Aam Aadmi Party’s youth wing protested outside the Delhi Police headquarters on Sunday morning, police personnel on duty were faced with a strange problem. In an attempt to disperse the protesters, they began using water cannons. As the day was extremely humid, the protesters welcomed the water jets instead. On the backfoot, police then brought in buses, put the protesters on them and sent them away.
‘Surrender’ Singh

AAP MLA Surinder Singh turned up at the police headquarters last week to “surrender”. He was, however, not arrested there. After meeting senior police officers, including police chief B  S Bassi, he left, to the surprise of many. With ties between police and the Delhi government already strained, a senior police officer said, “Arre bhai, we do not want to arrest him… Why is he doing this drama? He does not have to surrender.”

Watch out

A wrist watch without a dial worn by the representative of Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd caught the attention of the special judge in the 2G spectrum allocation case. “This does not appear to be a watch, could anyone enlighten us about this device?” the judge asked. To which, the person wearing it replied that it was a fancy watch he had purchased online. The court warned him to be careful in future and not bring such devices inside the courtroom.

Slip shows

In a blooper, Gurgaon’s public relations department copied an email from last year and forwarded it to mediapersons. So much so that it did not even change the name of the then Deputy Commissioner  Shekhar Vidyarthi to the present Deputy Commissioner
T L Satya Prakash. Only after  it was pointed out, did the department send an amended email.

‘RSS’ trio

With the Delhi government ‘putting its trust’ in three officials, the bureaucratic circle is rife with jokes. One bureaucrat called the trio the ‘RSS’. Understandably, the abbreviation stumped another bureaucrat. “I thought the government was being backed by the Congress,” the official said and laughed heartily when told that ‘RSS’ stood for ‘Rajendra Kumar, Sanghi and Sahai’.

Not yet there

While the AAP government continues to lock horns with the BJP-led Centre over the issue of full statehood, government officials seemed to have jumped the gun. Instead of the customary “Government of NCT of Delhi”, an email to mediapersons from the AAP government instead used the term “state government”.