TITTLE TATTLE

TITTLE TATTLE

As you position yourself to enter the historic Patan city from the Bagmati Bridge you are greeted by hosts of liquor hoardings. Sending wrong signals? As a Patane, Tattler quite embarrassed.

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One thing that really irritated the late six-footer Anoop Rana, was when his first name is misspelled as ‘Anup’. Condolences offerers should take note of this. Anoop, is the correct name Tattler assures.

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Now that the by-election are over and NC men have won all the three seats up for grabs, PM Krishna Prasad Bhattarai must be feeling smug. However a Congress insider whispered to Tattler that the situation is not the same for some senior ministers. They could get the axe soon and they are feeling insecure about this. Let’s just hope the rotten apples are not replaced by even worse ones! No prizes for guessing who the rotten apples are.

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A villain for one side is a hero for its opposition. So as Minister Khum Bahadur Khadka has been painted as the main villain by the UML for its humiliating defeat in the Rautahat by-election, have the NC leaders taken him as the party’s hero?

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The cold Winter days tend to keep people in their warm beds more time than they may like. At a time like this, would anybody dare to check if attendance at the 9 a.m. opening government offices have full attendance? What say you, pollsters?

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Ministers attending programmes not related to their ministries is a common thing, here. At a recent programme of Lumbini Airways, the announcer was blissfully unaware that the minister attending the function was not the Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation, but the Minister for Commerce. She might have thought that as it was a programme related to airlines, the one who came would be the aviation minister. She was right in her own way, but this is Nepal, key garney?