limericks

5 limericks that I wrote for a limerick contest:

May 2004 Sushma Swaraj threatens to shave her head and sleep on the floor if Sonia Gandhi is made the prime minister। It's an irony that Indian people had given their verdict by defeating Sushma Swaraj who was pitted against Sonia in MP elections।

There lived a fiery tongue like a broken barrage
She lost polls to an Italian and cried 'Swaraj'
"Even though I'm wed"
She said, "I will shave my head"
So she put the budding minister back in the garage.-------

1991-1996. Narasimha Rao and his art of silence.Rao, despite the fact that he knew many languages, barely spoke in anyone. He would act only when he was forced to do so.

The old pouty man was a polyglot
Yet his motto was 'Speak Not'
A mosque fell, led to a riot
The old man just kept quiet
He kept quiet till he died in his old cot.
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There are many unlucky numbers. No one has thought about 23. Sanjay Gandhi's plane fell on June 23 1980. CISF revolted in Bokaro on June 23 1979. They were routed by the army overnight. CISF was disarmed and re-armed in 1983. Kanishka, the most infamous crash in the history, happened on June 23, 1985. The first line mentions a Milton poem where he is perplexed about turning 23.

Milton was baffled on turning twenty three
India's prodigal son's plane fell on twenty three
CISF wanted to be free
They fell on twenty three
Kanishka on the same day dived into the sea.
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1989-1990.The rise and fall of the man called VP Singh. He rose like a wave and receded the same way. The media made him the best thing that happened to Indian politics. In a few months, they would turn him into a villain.

They sang: He is a faqeer, not a king;
The Bofors-buster became a big thing
India was Mandal-ed
The king was bundled
Humpty Dumpty's fall was quite intriguing.
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1999-2004.AB Vajpayee. And the constant tussle within him what to say. He condemned Modi and the next day was all praise for him. He was known for changing his statements. The first one would be hisconscience's; the second one his party's.

He used to take an hour between two lines
A state burnt, but he said: India shines
It was a tough task
To be the mask
The poor old man often had to change his lines.