Papi Reddy: Coming to Shaukar Saab, maybe, he wanted to save his skin to latch onto Lachhi who holds sway on him.
Sahukar Suryam: What about you Papi Reddy Patel? Haven’t you lost your keep as well as your pimp, not to speak of the future upkeep?
Muthyal Rao: You stop taking snipes at each other, will you? Before he arrives, let’s work out a strategy to confront our MLA Venkataswamy. I want to get tough with him to see that he exerts pressure on the C.M. Isn’t he known to brag about his closeness to him.
Shaukar Suryam: Dora, I’m really out of my wits to apply my mind now. Its better we lay low for the time being.
Papi Reddy: Wait and watch the next naxal order could be interest free loans, free of guarantees at that. Surely that makes you think, won’t it?
Papa Rao: Isn’t it like their running a parallel regime?
[Enter Mallesam Gowd, the ex-MLA of the constituency]
Muthyal Rao: Randi,Gowd garu.
Mallesam Gowd: I feel sad for all that has happened dora. But if only you people had seen the writing on the wall, it was all in the coming. You know while our party is committed to put an end to this naxal menace, all others pamper them for political gains. Don’t you know why our party was humbled at the hustings, and how this party of opportunists came to rule? Was it not the fear of the naxal gun that turned away our voters from the polling booths? Now it’s the payback time, and so the sarkar looks the other way even as the naxalsare on the rampage. What else can you expect from a party that dabbles with the annaluto come to power and then goes soft on them to retain it? Well, it’s the turn of the gentry to suffer now.
Muthyal Rao: Gowd garu, what you say maybe true. Now our worry is how to keep things going our way without hindrance from them.
Mallesam Gowd: Don’t you see it’s already turning out to be a war between the haves and the have-nots?
Papa Rao: Why doubt that?
Mallesam Gowd: Is it not said that everything is fair in love and war.
Shaukar Suryam: What is sad, we’re made to lose in our love life also, what do you say Papi Reddy Patel?
Muthyal Rao: Oh, stop it Shaukar. It seems our Gowd garuhas something up his sleeve.
Papa Rao: Well, not for nothing he is a politician after all. You know how well Gowd garuingratiates himself with the party high command. Win or lose, the party ticket is his, isn’t it?