Having lost his donkey a Sardarji, got down to his
    knees and started   thanking God. A passerby saw him and asked, "Your
    donkey is missing;   what are you thanking God for ?" The sardarji
    replied "I am thanking Him  for seeing to it that I wasn't riding the donkey at
    that time, otherwise I   would have been missing too."

This is less a sirdarji joke than a reality even for non sirdarjis. This must be how the Surya B Thapa and Pashupati SJB Rana must have been feeling right now. Moral of the story: Don't count on an ass...

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