Want to contest elections ?

In India, candidates contesting elections to local bodies must have passed 8^th standard of school.

That is no problem.

Now the minister for rural development wants to enforce an old provision that makes it mandatory for candidates to have a toilet in their residence.

Minister Jayant Patil tells candidates,

“ I can understand that you cannot build a Taj Mahal for your wife. But if you truly care and love her, you can at least provide a toilet.

  Does any husband like to see his wife squatting in the open in the absence of toilets at home ? “

Yes Minister – I mean No Minister !

He could have added that the nice thing about a toilet is that it can be built during a wife’s lifetime – unlike Taj Mahal which took 30 years to build !

With regards

hemen  parekh