Triumph of Democracy - Minister forced by voter to fall in line
IN the Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic of India, there is a class of people called VIPs, who are above the normal rules of life that are applicable to common men. At least once in five years these VIPs pretend to be commoners and act like commoners. During election time, you can find them vying with each other to prove that they are as close to the common mango men as possible. One thing that the Indian VIP abhors is the great Indian queue, but normally you find even these VIPs standing in line to vote.
Then we have this Tourism Minister of India Chiranjeevi who had been a movie actor for more than 30 years. He had been acting all his life and perhaps on election day, he didn't want to act. So he came to cast his vote, along with his family and instead of standing in the long queue, proceeded straight to the booth. Ministerial privilege! VIP facility? But a voter who had been standing in the queue was not prepared to tolerate this outright insult and he stopped the Hon'ble Minister and asked him, "do you need special treatment?". As the voters in the queue applauded, the minister walked back and joined the queue. The Minister understood what it is to stand in a queue.