Seven Vows Part 3 -Part 259 Page 147 - Page 61

Yes, you were right about the names. But had to get it out of the system. When we name our kids we hope for the best on how they turn into. We won't want them to turn bad. And there are no bad names as such.😆

Chapter 214- Request for Support

" Ankush" Tilak rushed to his friend and Renu invited Suchitra and Satya inside. Tilak and Ankush hugged each other.

" Tilak I am extremely sorry to come at this time. We came to Jaipur only two days back and tomorrow public announcement will come Ankush Setia is the AIKP candidate for Jaipur Lok Sabha constituency. I wanted to tell you before the public announcement" told Ankush.

" What are you telling Ankush. You have come after so many years and it is a festival day. You are going to have dinner here. Maa.."

" Tilak you don't have to tell me. It is not first time Ankush has come here "told Maheswari.

" Yes aunty I very well know and I also know that today is Tilak's youngest brother's birthday. Satya give the gift to Sreedhar uncle " told Ankush. Tilak pushed Sreedhar forward as the girl gave a wrapped present in Sreedhar's hand.

" Shall uncle open" asked Sreedhar and the girl nodded. Sreedhar carefully unwrapped the paper and there was a painting of Krishna playing the flute in Vrindavan.

" Satya drew it " told Suchitra.

" It's beautiful dear, uncle will hang it in his room " told Sreedhar and the girl smiled.

Soon everyone sat for dinner. Rajasekhar asked about some general political questions to Ankush as the ladies served the dinner. Then Tilak intervened.

" Papa I feel in all these discussions we didn't introduce the family to Ankush. Ankush hope you will know Renu my wife, she is Vindhya Sudhir's wife, Suman Murali's wife and those 3 monkeys are my kids Poornima, Aakash and Adwaith and that lone monkey is Sudhir's daughter Namratha" Ankush nodded to them as the kids made faces at Tilak for calling them monkeys but smiled at Ankush.

" Then Ankush this Suman's sister Devika. She got a job in the bank here and her kids Ramya and Reshma" continued Tilak and Devika gave a polite Namasthe. Then Tilak turned to Vaishnav and said. " Do you know him, he is .."

" Vaishnav, Prakash's son. The reason I decided to come back and fight the election "completed Ankush. His eyes were moist.

Everyone looked at Ankush surprised.

" Uncle what did I do for me to become a reason for you to come back " asked Vaishnav.

" I owe you a truth Vaishnav. The truth behind your father's death. If I need to expose that I need the power " told Ankush.

" Truth behind Prakash's death. What do you mean by that Ankush" asked Rajasekhar.

" Isnt it clear uncle. I think Prakash was murdered and the reason might have been what he told me " told Ankush.

" What did he tell you and why did you disappear suddenly " asked Tilak as anyways the topic was opened.

" Children are there Tilak, we will speak after dinner " told Ankush and then the dinner continued with general topics and teasing Sreedhar on his love for Pooris and Gajar Ka Halwa. Suman had made Dal Thadka and everyone took it with rotis. Vindhya teased Suman had only managed to master Dal Thadka even after one year of being in kitchen. Renu told Suman she will teach her Churma Ladoo which she will serve for Diwali"

" Ok Ankush Bhaiyya so it is finalized, Suman will prepare the Churma Ladoo for your victory bash" told Sudhir and Suman blushed. Soon even the ladies finished the dinner as men discussed on various things and once Vindhya came down settling the kids in their room everyone looked at Ankush.

Ankush told them the entire story of what happened to Arathy and why he had to go away. Hearing Arathy's story Suman felt the women in her family were lucky that way. Yes they were beaten and harassed, but then so far none of the ladies in her family had to undergo what Arathy didi underwent.

" So Tilak, Sudhir though what Prakash told about Arathy didi was truth, don't you find his presence there suspicious. Don't you feel many loop holes in his story. Me the idiot when I bargained for Dharini and Dheeraj custody told I got the information from Prakash. He died of cardiac arrest exactly two months later. Do you believe cardiac arrest for him. He was only twenty five. "

" Bhaiyya there is something fishy, especially the part, the security told Prakash bhaiyya where the people are. Usually in such places security safeguards those dirty secrets" told Sudhir.

" Moreover Bhaiyya if Prakash Bhaiyya saw what happened to Arathy didi, why he waited all along watching that dirty thing. Men moving in and out of Arathy's room. And why no one observed him" asked Sreedhar.

" Exactly that is the reason I believe Prakash didn't tell me the real reason he went there. I feel someone else understood the real reason and decided to kill him. Manjima Bhabi suicide was a bonus" told Ankush.

" But Ankush what secret Prakash can have. He was quite a straight forward person" told Tilak.

" Coming to think of it Tilak he was not that straight forward. He used to have some sudden disappearances. Not sure where he went " told Ankush.

" You really say my Papa was murdered " Vaishnav was sobbing now and Sreedhar held him.

" Vaishnav beta the possibility is very high. That's why I had come back. Come back to give justice to my friend because of whom Dharini is a happily married woman and Dheeraj have got a job. By the way Dheeraj is joining Jaipur as Sub Inspector in a week. He just stayed back in Ujjain to finish some things there."

" That means we will get rid of that crony Rupinder Singh" asked Sreedhar and everyone laughed.

" So Tilak I do not want to repeat the mistake of last time. While I tried to change the world, my sister was suffering. To make this campaign successful I will be needing your help to handle a very important part " told Ankush.

" Ankush I am just a name sake king. If you want brain pull Sudhir, if you want women's votes pull Sreedhar and if you need emotional appeal pull Vaishnav" told Tilak.

" My idea is much bigger than that Tilak". He explained the whole plan to them.

" So what say everyone " asked Ankush. It was Maheswari who replied " Beta it is for something good. If Prakash Samrat was murdered as you think then world has to know the truth. For that this battle is important. This family will be with you."

" Exactly Ankush Beta. I was asking Sudhir where all this will end and Sudhir used to tell Papa allow things to happen. So maybe he is right. This is the next thing in that path" told Rajasekahr.

Then everyone told good night and Sreedhar told he will drop Vaishu and Devika didi to their house. As everyone dispersed Maheswari sat lost in thoughts. Whatever was happening, happened with the marriage of Suman and Murali. Before the thought of Sree and Suman loving in college came to her mind she never felt so unsure. Now with that thought she wanted the complete answer for why Murali had to marry Suman, while Suman-Sree marriage could have easily happened.

Mv would probably be the balm to her son's guilt of causing pain to Suman.. by her quest to know the reason she will hopefully give sree a closure for his brother's death too.. vaishnav now is getting full closure of his parents death. Once the murder will be proved and murders booked the fire in vaishnav will diffuse to a certain extent..

@Ria MV's character is very crucial to the story. She is a mother in true sense.

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@Ria MV's character is very crucial to the story. She is a mother in true sense.

Good one. Again Maheshwari asking herself the correct questions. Hopefully the answers that she would either get or find or stumble upon might give a proper closure to Murali. Any change knowingly or unknowingly demands a sacrifice in some form.

@pirateking there has to be a reason why Murali came in between Sree and Suman. A brother who would have never wanted to come if he had known Suman is his kid brother's love. MV needs closure to that question

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@pirateking there has to be a reason why Murali came in between Sree and Suman. A brother who would have never wanted to come if he had known Suman is his kid brother's love. MV needs closure to that question

Chapter 215- The Announcement

Aravind Setia looked at the TV in disgust. Ankush, he has come back. He is going to be the candidate of AIKP( All India Krantikari Party) . How did it happen. He needed to call his party office. Aravind Setia over the years have contested under the ticket of BMM ( Bharat Mukti Morcha) party . Before he could call two three party members came inside the house.

" Setia we had asked you, whether your rebel son would come back. You were so sure he wont come back. See Party President is coming to Jaipur tomorrow. We need to think of a good strategy as we need to prove he is wrong in standing against his father. If he proves his father is wrong then everything is done with" told a member.

" Why are you afraid. He has run away from that Sati campaign. There are enough people who remember that. Only that thing is needed to deflate his credibility " told Aravind Setia.

" Setia you are not understanding. First as per the information we have got your son has gone to that Varma house. You very well know Tilak Varma is his friend and now MA Chairperson. That family has lot of social clout now. What with the youngest son Sreedhar Varma standing for the rights of widows and then they opening the shop exclusively for their daughters in law. " told one party member.

" Now what are they going to do in this. Even if they say they support Ankush what big difference it will make. That's all they can do right" told Setia.

" Setia your clout in MA is done with. Many in key positions there belong to Tilak Varma's clout. Thus quite a good chunk business community will move towards Ankush" told another party member.

" So what, see which man wont vote if you give him booze and money. Also announce freebies like TVs " told Setia.

" Setia all that will happen. But you need to understand we are in a precarious position. So come in the party meet. If you don't toe the line of party leadership as far as this election goes you might even lose the ticket " told the third one.

Aravind Setia cursed under breath. They were simply fearing a person who doesn't have any clout. He had run away from the battle field. He is a rebel against his own family. But then he knew he had to agree. He didn't wanted to lose party ticket . " Yes I will come" told Setia as the workers walked out. Setia called his other sons and decided he should meet Mahantji.

Maya sat in front of the TV in her small apartment. As she saw the announcement of Ankush Setia as the candidate for AIKP a smile played on her lips

" Maya why do you think we need Ankush" asked Nandakishore

" Sir, at this point if you look we have got some major break throughs. One is the hearing of Mahima Das rape case where we have Sartaj and his son. Second is the MA corp fund audit from where we have managed to unearth some unaccounted cash and benami properties. Couple of my team members are following up on that lead to collect more evidence there. At this point the biggest stumbling block in our path is Aravind Setia and his political clout. We have enough data against him to make this move so that his power goes down.

Now why Ankush. Sir read through the history of Ankush Setia. Our team has meticulously collected information about him. Most important Sir, I have gone through all the information Prakash Samrat had collected. Prakash had implicated some people in one of the last information that he has sent. He could never follow up through that information and he died. Now my team looked at those people and connection with Aravind Setia. Of that one Kapil is Setia's son in law and the husband of Ankush's sister Arathy. What the agents collected is that Ankush had a bitter battle with his father and brother-in-law over custody of Arathy's children and he was given custody of kids in exchange of stopping that Sati Prada campaign.

Now Ankush took the offer and went away from Jaipur. Now Prakash Samrat's one of the last visit info, Ankush's sudden disappearance with the kids everything shows Prakash shared something with Ankush which he saw at that place. Ankush and Prakash were friends. I feel by now Ankush would have also known something Prakash shared with him had led to his death. So I expect a fire in Ankush for his friend. Also he is Tilak Varma's friend. So I expect him to tie up with Tilak. Varma family have a good image in Jaipur. In addition Ankush has married a woman who was discarded by her family for being barren and he has adopted a child thus protected her from infanticide. His social image will be huge. I want you to go for it Sir"

" Maya I will look through the file, and then let me see I have few friends in AIKP" told Nandakishore

" Setia your time is up " told Maya as she came back to the present. Nandakishore Sir had decided to gamble on Maya's idea and then he pulled the necessary chains for AIKP to go to Ankush who was once the chairman of their student union. She needed to talk to her agents to be ready for any eventuality. To watch for Aravind Setia and his foul plans. Ankush winning the election was her big need.

Arvind setia is still delusioned abt the clout he has. And also stuck in the past. Maya is having info abt everything. Does police really get such detailed and correct info in real life?