Foulmouthed Minions: Congress believes in gathering minions not by merit but by their loyalty towards the Gandhis. Minions who will willingly shoot themselves in the foot by comparing India to a failing state like Pakistan or by abusing our national icons, just because of Rahul Gandhi’s single-minded hatred and obsession with Prime Minister Narendra Modi — both as a person and office-holder. These Congressmen, irrespective of whether or not they back Rahul Gandhi’s view, cannot go against the family’s wishes as their politics has all been about ingratiating themselves with it.

The comments that were made about the first-ever tribal woman President of the country reflect a similar condescension, which has become an institutional character of the Congress party. Congress leader Ajoy Kumar described Narendra Modi led NDA’s Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu as someone representing an “evil philosophy of India”. The inherent need that forces Rahul Gandhi’s minions to stoop to such low levels is what Rahul Gandhi has managed to achieve in his life as a politician.

Congress leaders under the tutelage of the Gandhis have taken India’s political discourse to a bottomless pit. Even after becoming the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was called the “most stupid PM”, Jawanon ke khoon ka dalaal. He was compared to Gaddafi, Benito Mussolini, Hitler. They called him “mentally ill”, Neech aadmi.

The list of abuses hurled at Narendra Modi is massive. Priyanka Gandhi called him Duryodhana; Mani Shankar Aiyar called him a neech aadmi; Ghulam Nabi Azad called him Ganguteli; Jairam Ramesh described him as Bhasmasur; Salman Khurshid likened him to a “monkey” and called him “a frog just out of the well and at a loss to find the right place for himself in the big wide world” — mocking Narendra Modi’s humble background; Abhishek Manu Singhvi labelled Modi as a “Man of Damage to India”; Chidambaram called Modi a “compulsive liar” and an “encounter chief minister”; Arjun Modhwadia said that Modi is “mentally retarded”; Imran Masood said “Modi would be cut to piece”; Renuka Chaudhary said “Modi is a virus”; Manish Tewari compared him with Dawood Ibrahim; and Digvijay Singh likened Narendra Modi to Raavan. They have called him nikamma, nasheri, Aurangzeb se bhi kroor tanashah, anpadh, ganwar, namak haram, nalayak beta, Tughlaq, natwar lal, nakkara beta.

Senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala’s protest saw repugnant slogans of “Modi teri kabar khudeji” being raised. Addressing a rally, Narendra Modi himself exposed the foulmouthed minions of the Congress saying, “Ek Congress ke neta ne mujhe gandi naali ka keeda kaha, toh doosre ne mujhe Ganguteli bola, ek neta ne mujhe paagal kutta kaha, toh doosra neta saamne aaya aur mujhe Bhasmasur ki upadhi de di. Congress ke ek aur neta hai, desh ke videsh mantri reh chuke hain, unhone mujhe bandar kaha, inke aur ek mantri ne mujhe virus kaha, toh doosre ne Dawood Ibrahim ka darja de diya,” Listing more, Modi said the Congress had also referred him as “Hitler, badtameez nalayak beta, rabies bimari se peedit bandar, chooha, lahu purush, asatya ka saudagar, Raavan, saanp, bichoo, ganda aadmi, zeher bone vaala and maut ka saudagr. He remembers Congress leaders even asked him, “mera pita kaun the, mere dada kaun the, yeh nahi maaloom”.

Opposition leaders having an ideological similarity with the Congress were also seen following Rahul Gandhi’s footsteps. NCP supremo Sharad Pawar likened Narendra Modi to Hitler; Ajit Singh had attacked Modi by calling him a “goat”; Azam Khan referred to Modi as kutte ke bacche ka bada bhai; Rabri Devi described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a jallad and gandi naali ka keeda.

The responsibility for taking India’s political discourse to such low levels of civility lies purely with Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi has been deliberately indulging in these theatrics with a definitive idea of spoiling the country’s public discourse.