'Send me a young cow'

Politics involves a lot of give and take but it was worth wondering if there was a political message to be read in Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal requesting his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi to send him a young cow of the Gir breed. Badal was speaking at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Agriculture Summit and said Modi had once gifted him a Gir cow and he was particularly fond of the quality of milk it produced so he made it a point to drink it whenever he visited his village in Punjab. But the cow has aged, he said, which is why he requested a replacement from Modi.