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So Who’s Soorma Bhopali?

ast, open prairies overrun by dacoits with bad teeth, a scriptwriter from Indore in Salim Khan, a teenager getting athe poll-bound state all over again. Congress sharpshooter Randeep Surjew ala has deemed it fitting that the party's chief campaigners, Kamal 'Roly' Nath and Digvijay 'Diggy raja' Singh be rechristened ‘Jai and Veeru’. The BJP, miffed by the flattering analogy, immediately pounced on the fact that Jai-Veeru were partners-in-crime! But then they changed tack. Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar, now in a bit of a spot with a purported video of his son going viral, said in all modesty that he and CM Shivraj Chouhan were the original Jai and Veeru. The Congress took the by-now-dismally-predictable game further and said Chouhan was actually Gabbar. Not to be left behind, the latter referenced another '70s movie—the Vinod Khanna-Shatrughan Sinha starrer Mere Apne—and said Diggy-Roly were more like the two competing ruffians in the film. Back in the Congress court now.

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