"Pillar of the state" joke

A senior cabinet minister given to acid remarks about everyone and with an exaggerated notion of his own ability was said to have described Feroze Gandhi as Prime Minister Nehru's lap dog. Then he had the misfortune of getting involved in a financial scandal.
Feroze Gandhi was scheduled to open the debate in the Lok Sabha. He is said to have walked up to the minister and within the hearing of the Treasury benches said:' Mr So and So, I hear you have been describing me as a lap dog. You, no doubt, consider yourself a pillar of the state. Today, I will do to you what a dog usually does to a pillar.'

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