She still shows signs she was a star shuttler. She is brisk; she is always up and about; she handles her campaign workers with quick commands and dispatches them home.
It is 10 in the night, but her long day shows no sign of ending. This is understandable because she is after all the rani of Amethi. In her cavernous office, Ameeta Singh nee Modi is resplendent in a bright yellow sari. Even the sandals she wears are of the same colour and very flashy. The fan hangs from a rickety long pole from a terrifically huge ceiling straight on top of a centre table on which are placed three plates of samosas and rasgullas and matthis.
Brown-coloured sofas surround the table and it is on one of these the rani sits handling media and hangers-on. Her middle-aged face, with a big red bindi on her forehead, seems so far away from all the b&w photos of the time she was married to the murdered badminton star Syed Modi. Her current husband, the Raja, is still in a far-flung place stumping for her.
Sanjay Singh, despite the army of workers waiting for him outside his office, shows no signs of returning. Inside, the rani holds court. This time she is in a tough fight with the former rani, who still occupies a portion of Sanjay Singh's palace. Garima Singh, Sanjay's former wife, has got a BJP ticket to fight from Amethi and is most likely winning. Ameeta talks of her using emotion to win votes, but does not go further.
As a gaggle of media men decide to shuffle out of her room, she too suddenly leaps out of her chair to pass a new set of instructions to her satellites.
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