Ride on Horse, Cook in Tandoor - Jaspal Bhatti
Posted by kumar on June 6th, 2008
‘Switch to Murli’s oven to save yourself from the heat of price rise’ — this was Jaspal Bhatti’s clear message to Petroleum Minister Murli Deora. Bhatti, president of Nonsense Club, launched the ‘Murli Mobile Tandoor’ on Thursday.
Ridiculing the price rise, Bhatti said: “We have full sympathy with the government which had no other option but to increase the diesel and LPG prices. But before hiking the gas prices, the Petroleum Ministry could have launched Murli Mobile Tandoors to help people make rotis.”
Bhatti’s wife Savita, along with couple of other ladies, pedaled the tandoor (earthen oven) which they called ‘Murali Mobile Tandoor’ from door-to-door while Bhatti escorted the tandoor on horseback.
He demanded that special horse lanes be made now and traffic police should train its staff to control the horse and donkey traffic. He further added that there should be special parking lots for horses and government officers should be given special horse-conveyance allowance.
Bhatti thanked all the successive governments who from time-to-time had done their best to make fuel a rare commodity. “In this way, it is out of reach of the common man and in fact would make us more environment-friendly with everybody travelling on horseback.”