Visibly moved by the plight of buffaloes in Surat Airport, Samajwadi Party leader and UP minister Azam Khan has announced that he will be adopting it under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Sansad Gram Yojana,” that calls on Members of Parliament to adopt villages in their constituencies.
Though there were technical hurdles relating to the fact that only an MP can adopt a village and that too, only in his constituency, the PMO has announced that it will make exceptions for Khan. “Yeah, there are rules like that, but we’ve never seen a state leader so enthusiastic about adopting an area under this scheme. Since this scenario is unprecedented, we’re allowing Azam bhai to adopt an airport, that too in Surat, which is way outside his constituency,” a PMO official told The UnReal Times.
A minute, later, however, the official gingerly said, “Okay okay, let me tell the truth. If we deny him his request, he’ll simply go around wailing that he’s not allowed to adopt the airport because he is a Muslim, yaar! Painful chap!”
An elated Khan, however, is all geared up and raring to go, in his mission of giving the airport a makeover. “I don’t care even if flights don’t have terminals to rest in,” Khan said, “but these poor buffaloes should. In the near future, each buffalo will have a dedicated terminal to itself. We will build new terminals for flights on a need-to-need basis.”
“I will set up a special, smooth travel facility for those who want to go abroad on study tours. From my personal experiences, I am also going to improve security checks around here and will make it hassle free, as far as going to the flights is concerned. People can even carry live bullets to the airplanes, no problem with that!” Khan added, “But I will not let anyone dare to get near the buffaloes without the state’s top cops and police force accompanying them.”
When asked whether taking care of an airport so far away would impact his involvement in active politics, Khan smiled and said, “Ah, that’s okay! I’m just an item girl in politics, anyway!”