The UP elections have brought down the levels of campaigning. It is a do or die situation here. A man who is in the post of Prime Minister Narendra Modi started hitting below the belt and stooped low to conquer. All others followed suit which was a very bad precedent. Some time it is going on personal lines also.
A BJP leader said that there are leaders and campaigners who are more beautiful and articualte when compared to Priyanka Gandhi of Congress party. He said Smirthi Irani was better than Priyanka.
PM Modi said Rahul was leaarning to Speak and he has a long way to go. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is helming his party’s UP campaign along with BJP president Amit Shah, opened the breach with his caustic coinage of the acronym SCAM — short for SP, Congress, Akhilesh, Mayawati — for his opponents.
He also said BSP stood for “Behenji Sampatti Party”, meaning as a party the BSP is a receptacle for properties hoarded, presumably by corrupt means, by its leader Mayawati.
In reply, Mayawati, a former chief minister, played on the initials of the Prime Minister’s name, saying it stood for Negative Dalit Modi. The clear suggestion was that Mr Modi is anti-dalit.
Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav went a step further. He urged the famous actor Amitabh Bachchan not to back “the donkeys of Gujarat”. Since Bachchan has for some years been a close friend of Modi and is a brand ambassador for Gujarat Tourism, which recently profiled wild asses found in the state as a tourist attraction, the barb appears intended for the PM.
The PM said there should be electricity on Diwali too, not just Ramzan, and there should be more cremation grounds for Hindus, not just burial yards for Muslims. This is regrettable.
Lets hope they will end it soon.
