Dedicated to people who missed the action. I would try my best to narrate the event without any bias but it would be very difficult for me to do that because I had inclinations towards 2 candidates competing for FINAX secy and that too, a strong one towards one… and my narration might just imply that. There might be some mistakes in questions and answers because I was not that attentive J
The SOP session started with AXIOM.
Risha with her mind-boggling SOP. Spectators let-off her without any questions. Feels like they don’t even feel like external stakeholders for AXIOM..
Next came our very own body-builder. Everyone started shouting “Sleeveless pehen ke aata”, “dance kar”, “Body dikha toh vote milega”. Badde started with his emotional speech. His inclination towards operations where XL lags. What he has done bla bla bla.
But the smartest and campaigning sentence in his SOP was “Myself, kalanidhi and Peddy went to meet Prof. Rajiv Mishra.”
God knows what happened in that meeting but as soon as the crazy spectators heard the name of Kalanidhi, hall started resounding with that voice…strange acoustics, whenever this name comes up in any room of XL, it resounds automatically.
Badde has done his part in waking up the crowd and he was pretty much sure that he won the crowd with that name. SO, this was his success mantra.
Now came the most important SOPs, FINAX SOPs. All were waiting for these SOPs. Personally even I was curious about how they would go because these play a very important role in shifting of votes at the last minute.
Here comes NN. NN started with the SOP and first time I noticed the curiosity in crowd. Everyone was attentive. Whats so special about FINAX. I was busy with some game in lappi and chubby ordered me to stop it. No-one can go against chubby, so even I had to listen to the SOP L
NN showed his initiatives, his intentions and his work as a FINAX member. I would say a decent SOP.
But But But, How can you go away with your rivals and that too when you have so many opponents in your own team. Frankly speaking, FINAX had seen a very low stature in last one year but this should be attributed to each and every team member. But every team member projected as if they tried a lot to nurture FINAX and it was NNs single force which was able to destruct everything. So, it was clear that NN was going to have a very bad time as students as well as his team-members were pitching against him (Oh did I forget the senior??)
Here comes IS. Well, we were supposed to ask questions but IS could not control his emotions and started commenting. (Kitni baar bola sar pe baraf laga ke rakha kar J )
He was fast enough to complete his comment “Friends we know what happened in FINAX last year and so, we should elect a right person keeping that in mind” Before he could complete it, Halla dragged him off…Gensec announced the inappropriateness of comments.. IS with his red face came back…
Then Steps in SK, NN was pretty sure that one more cross-question is going to come up.
“ You mentioned about a Finax journal, can I get an update on what is your role in it”, it became clear that SK was the one who was working on it. But there was strong disapproval on the question. SO, she was smart enough to reframe the question “Can I get the update on the status of finax journal?”, she leaves angrily.
NN played it safe by answering “You are working on it and you should be knowing the status better.”
Next Comes CK, One more cross-question.
“I was looking at finax blog, and I can see the last entry in AUG, 2009. Whats your take on this?. How can we expect someone to be a secy who cant even update a blog”
A simple answer “We were focusing on other initiatives, so could not go well with this one”
Finally, seemed like it was done and NN was relieved but soon came the last part, SB. As soon as he entered, crowd started showing disrespect of his presence and Gensec had to present several rules and instances for the validity of his presence.
His question “NN, we had paired you with a MAXI member for certain project. Whats the update on that and tell me some of your initiatives”-
Last nail in the coffin for NN as even SB was taking his case royally. It was crisp clear that there were huge differences in the existing team and unfortunately NN looked as the sole scapegoat at that point.
NN defended that question with a decent answer but it was not decent enough for crowd and specially for SB, a dissatisfaction came on his face. But finally NN was done with his round and it might be a long relieving moment for him.
Then one by one came other nominees, with their SOPs and took their share of questions.
In KB’s Q&A, IS bumped once again. It would be interesting to see what he is upto again, definitely not a comment. But this time he was smart enough to give a comment through a question.
“KB, there is a conference being arranged and you want to select one of your team-mate to volunteer it. First candidate is the one who worked very hard for it and second candidate is having a pretty face, whom would you select”
Two things over here. First of all… KB, that question was not intended to you and everyone knows the receptor of that question. Secondly…IS, pretty is really an over-rated term for the context you have used. Anyways, applauds were all over in the hall.
KB came up with the obvious answer but the purpose of the question was solved.
Well, here comes the Final SOP and the best one. AK a.k.a. SRK enters the room….
To be contd….
