Can't travel by that class

Hey mister, can ya tell me the time?
It's about time .
What do you mean?
Shut up and watch.

The train was supposed to cross that stretch in less than a second. But someone had been quite cagey and had commenced some shoddy repair work along the tracks. So no sooner did the train pass than the small motley crew of them rapscallions showered stones and other solid missiles upon the Indian locomotive.
The occasion was Monsieur Gandhi's debut journey in an ordinary class after his mother had declared that minimalism would have to be the mantra . A fellow called Tharoor had raised valid objections about all this (after all it was not for nothing that he had joined politics), but Madame can never be convinced otherwise, especially when it comes to cost reducing measures.

As far as the mob which pelted those stones is concerned, there are many theories flying in the wind, as to who actually was in the mob.

One theory says it was a mob of some B.J.P. backed hooligans aided by the venerable Akalis.
Another one says that it was nobody but the congress workers themselves who wanted to dissuade the party high command from taking such dangerous and inconvenient decisions again.
Yet another one is making rounds which plants at least one representative from each political party into the mob, for cessation of travel by air and business class or by private jets is a matter of universal political concern, cutting across those flimsy party lines.
My father has contributed to this pleiad by saying that that mob was actually a group of high ranking bureaucrats and hoteliers and owners of all those airlines who were quick enough to judge the repercussions of such a policy.

Well whoever may have been in that mob, I am happy to see that there is somebody out there who still cares for the general public.
Having travelled by Indian railways I can say that any such move whereby these Politicians would have to travel by the ordinary class is a very deadly weapon waiting to be unleashed upon us. After all how can you expect to get confirmed tickets in the already choked system when Mantri ji and his train of 2345678901 bureaucrats + 908765432123456677 security guards would have to be accommodated. God Forbid, had this journey been incident free it would have spelt doom for all of us who are already used to getting 5 tickets reserved for a single day's journey, that at least one may get confirmed by that date.

So divine intervention has saved the ordinary citizens of this country from unbound misery. I am really grateful to all those hooligans who displayed civilized behaviour by pelting those stones and what not on the already dilapidated body of the train.

Since none of these leaders would be asked to pay for the journey, the railways shall also lose out on quite a sum and may be all the good work done by Lalu ji to create an attractive balance sheet would be for nothing.

So in public interest it is my appeal to all of you sitting smugly in your homes to step out on the roads with stones in your hands and a placard which reads " No second class for Third grade persons" If you are up to it, I would even ask you to spit at notion of such a policy and stone it to death, after all we are cultured people who know all about some decent ways to protest, the result of being a 3000 year old civilization which thrives on non-violence.