Samikhsya Bureau
Given the kind of language and the trading of barbs being traded in the political discourses now, cutting across parties, all the leaders in politics need to learn a lesson from the Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik.
‘Yeh jo Narendra Modi bol raha hai’ or ‘Desh ki yuva isse lathi lekar marenge’ uttered by none other than the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, it is surprising that there can be debasement of language to that extent.
Rahul Gandhi , with his experience in politics, should have made a choice between political orthodoxies and debasement of language.
Regardless of what is being said about Odisha’s chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, on the delivery front, it can be said with conviction that, he, perhaps, is the only politician presently, with his cool and quality of language with which he either takes the jibes from the opposition or tries to take a dig at them, his language always remain far from a decline in tenor.
Even if he was ever heard of launching an attack in his speech or deliberations, in last 20 years, the BJD supremo has always maintained the civility that even his worst critics admire.
Not Rahul Gandhi alone but, several leaders have fallen victim to the perpetuity of using unsavory language and this has grown more irritable of late.
It can be recalled that when, Amit Shah, then as the BJP national president, fired the caustic tirades at Patnaik, even alluding as a ‘ burnt transformer’ deserved to be thrown into the Bay of Bengal, the chief minister’s response was cool and far from being, anyway, slovenly in taste. A lesson that the BJP think-tank would have learnt from Patnaik at least.
While referring to the prime minister, even in a climate of terrible decline in language, one must draw the line not to allow language relegating to what Rahul Gandhi was heard saying on Wednesday.
Effects of such language can be also the cause when politics and the society suffers. It is always the lack of erudition that allows slovenliness to make the politicians to appear unacceptable at times.
