Public CompanyTemporarily disconnected?
The next time you call up Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s Delhi mobile, you could well get to hear “services to this number have been temporarily disconnected”. A few days ago, while Mukherjee was holding a meeting with his top bureaucrats, he got a call from a Vodafone customer service executive who said that since the bill, of a fairly large amount, had not been paid, the company would have no option but to disconnect the phone in another day or so.
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Mukherjee lost his cool and asked the official how he dared to call him up in the middle of a meeting. After that, he called officials to find out why the bill had not been paid — in the meanwhile, he said, “Please take this phone away, I don’t want to use it.”