Mumbai:Only the irrepressible Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray could have come up with this one. It was a meeting of businessmen and politicians.Tea-time talk veered round to the slipping standards of governance and the difficulty in getting appointments with the decision-makers in Mantralaya.Thackeray reacted in characteristic fashion: This man here on my left is leaving for the United States, my chief minister called a meeting with industrialists only to find that many of them were away in the US, Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde is scheduled to leave for the US. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Lewinsky is a free woman these days. The guests shifted uncomfortably in their seats but smiled politely.Published By: AtMigration Published On: Oct 5, 1998--- ENDS ---
