{"id":206391,"date":"2022-12-06T00:53:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=206391"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:23:48","slug":"more-vulgar-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/more-vulgar-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"More vulgar the better!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slander Is Now Virtue<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Poonam I Kaushish<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rajnetik virodhi ya jaani dushman? Tragically, the lines between a political opponent and sworn enemy are blurred, epitomized by brazen slander during recent campaigning for Gujarat and Himachal Assemblies which trashed basic courtesies and decencies, ended camaraderie, bonhomie and respect among healthy rivals. Underscoring, slander, sensation, smear, sully and smirch are the new political dialogues and flavour of the season. With the devil taking the hindmost!
\nEveryone and everything was game in Mahatma land. From desh bhakts to desh drohis. For the Congress, confused about its support base, devoid of vote plank and desperate to stop b\u00eate-noir BJP from returning to power, it fell back to tried and tested formula \u2014 abuse. For Saffron Sangh it\u2019s a do-or-die battle for \u2018Gujju\u2019 poster boy Prime Minister Modi to ensure it continues its 24 years rule since 1995.
\nAll hell broke loose when Congress President Kharge said, \u201cModi ji is PM\u2026 He keeps campaigning in corporation elections, MLA elections, MP elections, everywhere\u2026 All the time he\u2019s talking about himself \u2013 \u2018You don\u2019t have to see anyone else, just look at Modi and vote\u2019\u2026 Is Modi going to come and work at the municipality? Is he going to help you in times of your needs. How many times do we see your face? How many forms do you have? Do you have 100 heads like Ravan?\u201d
\nEvoking a sharp reaction from BJP, which accused Kharge of \u201cinsulting Gujarat\u2019s son. From \u2018Maut ka Saudagar\u2019 to \u2018Ravan\u2019, Congress continues to insult Gujarat.\u201d Referring to Sonia Gandhi\u2019s comment during 2007 Gujarat election attacking Chief Minister Modi for the 2002 communal violence in the State.
\nCountered Kharge, \u201cModiji claims to be poor. How is this possible when he has served as Chief Minister for over 13 years and PM for 8 years? Imagine the plight of dalits and tribals? I\u2019m one of the untouchables. People drank your tea, nobody would\u2019ve had my tea\u2026How many times will you lie? He\u2019s the leader of lies.\u201d
\nRipping him for the audacious bare-all below-the-belt attack, responded Modi, \u201cHe says he will show Modi his \u2018aukat\u2019, I am a common man let him show me my aukat. They hurl 2.5-3 kg abuses everyday\u2026Modi will die dog\u2019s death, Modi will die Hitler\u2019s death. Another said, if I get a chance, I\u2019ll kill Modi myself…Someone says rakshash, someone says cockroach… there is a competition who is most abusive and uses most toxic slurs\u2026 Congress means corruption and selfish politics.\u201d
\nEvoking sharp rejoinder, \u201cYou give 4 quintals of gaalis everyday, without which you are unable to digest food.\u201d Snapped another, \u201cModi is a terrorist\u2026an unchanged lunatic…He is cynical and criminal challenge to democracy\u2026Gujarat is hub of Hindu terrorists.\u201d It doesn\u2019t stop there. A defamation case is pending in Bombay High Court for Rahul Gandhi\u2019s \u201ccommander-in-thief remark over the 2018 Rafale fighter jet deal.
\nReminiscent of Congress ex-MP Mani Shankar Aiyar calling PM, \u201cYe aadmi bahut neech kisam ka aadmi hai. Is mein koi sabhyata nahi hai aur aise mauke par is kisam ki gandi rajniti karne ki kya avashyakta hai.\u201d
\nLook at Trinamool\u2019s Mamata who averred two years ago, \u201cWhen Modi comes to Bengal and says I am a top extortionist, I wish to give him one tight slap of democracy.\u201d If this was not bad enough she went a step further, \u201che is a liar \u2026. A person drenched in blood\u2026.I will ask him to do 100 sit-ups if corruption charges against my Party are proven wrong.\u201d Countered NaMo, \u201cI advise Didi give a tight slap to your Party leaders who stole people\u2019s money in chit fund scam.\u201d
\nThe barbs got uglier when Modi talked about \u2018Trinamool\u2019s Tolabaazi (organized extortion racket) Tax\u2019 enforced by Bhua Mamata and her bhatija. Shot back Didi, \u201cWoh ek badtameez nalayak beta hai who does not care for his mother and wife.\u201d Worse, was RJD\u2019s Rabri Devi who called Modi \u201cA jallad (executioner) with a \u2018khoonkhar maansikta\u201d (vicious mindset). Sic.
\nMore. Titillating voters has become common whereby anything and everything is game. For the BJP, \u201cMuslims can be identified by removing their clothes (reference to circumcision) to Samajwadi\u2019s \u201cJaya Prada wears a khaki (RSS colour) underwear,\u201d and insinuation linking Modi and Mayawati\u2019s single status to post-poll alliance between BJP and BSP. \u201cWoh teen baar Modi ki godh mein bathe chukeyi hai\u201d while NCP\u2019s Pawar dubs Modi as \u201cderanged who needs treatment in a mental hospital\u201d. BJP retorts, \u201cPawar is so big he can\u2019t walk properly,\u201d and Mayawati is a \u201cprostitute,\u201d
\nWhat\u2019s new? Aren\u2019t we accustomed to gutter-sniping and vitriolic tu-tu-mein-mein between political opponents and Parties? Isn\u2019t it part and parcel of political discourse. Of dirty linen being increasingly washed in public serenaded by frenzied audiences seetees galore, more vulgar the better, dil maange more!
\nImportantly, will this mud-raking stop? \u201cNo\u201d. All are tarred by same brush: Congress, BJP or X,Y,Z Party. If BJP is upset now, it too has to accept its blame share. Remember, Modi had described Sonia as \u201cItalian mud will not stick on me. Sonia has hatred for Hindus. She speaks against Hindus and chooses to remain silent when atrocities are committed against the community.\u201d Or senior BJP leader Advani calling ex-PM Manmohan Singh \u201cnikamma\u201d in 2009.
\nAlas, none want to address critical questions: Why are politicians\u2019 discourses becoming more and more venomous and noxious? Can such language and conduct be condoned? In Delhi the BJP stands accused of calling AAP\u2019s Kejriwal \u201ca dog\u201d and its woman candidate \u201ca prostitute\u201d alongside casteist slurs.
\nFrankly, I am neither surprised as our netagan are only showing their girgit true colours throwing all public decency and decorum to winds! Gone are the days when jibes and trolls were funny, sarcastic and netas took them in their strides.
\nAccentuating bankruptcy that is manifest in our system wherein leaders have perfected the art of cultivating low morality and high greed made more malignant by our fragmented politics. Resulting in immorality becoming a way of life, what damn difference does one more slanderous attack make?
\nSadly, through this diatribe one thing emerges crystal clear: political skullduggery indulged in mirrors the harsh and horrendous reality of our polity. Where there is no dividing line between what is correct and incorrect. A harsh reflection on the depth of political depravation we have come to. A nouvelle vote-catching mantra in the hope that this cesspit sniping would bring them tripti-\u2014 and power. Consequently, the idea of democracy has been vitiated.
\nClearly, it is time our politicians realize profligacy, immorality cannot be the bedrock of democracy. Our polity needs to tone down divisive and personal attacks, engage each other on issues affecting people and nation, not personalities to put electioneering back on rails of dignified debate adopting zero-tolerance stand on offensive language.
\nThe aim: raise bar on public discourse because if you point one slanderous finger at another, four other slanderous fingers will point back at you! How long will we suffer the stampede for sensation and slur? Can a nation be bare and bereft of all sense of shame and morality? \u2014 INFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slander Is Now Virtue By Poonam I Kaushish Rajnetik virodhi ya jaani dushman? Tragically, the lines between a political opponent and sworn enemy are blurred, epitomized by brazen slander during recent campaigning for Gujarat and Himachal Assemblies which trashed basic courtesies and decencies, ended camaraderie, bonhomie and respect among healthy rivals. Underscoring, slander, sensation, smear, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-features"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}