Maintain your dignity

I have been amazed at the twist that has been given to the "Congress is a 125 years old woman" and all sorts of insinuations like disgracing womanhood and what not are being invented by the opposition. It is indeed the lowest level of destroying the normal linguistic idiom and is an assault on the language itself by the likes of Congress spokespersons. On the other hand Priyanka has made a fool of herself by asking if she looks old. thank God she did not ask whether she looks 180 years old! She was not at all in the question and there was no need to take the dialogue to that level even if the hint was at he age of some BJP leaders. Not that Congress doesn't have its share of oldies like Arjun Singh, Motilal Vora, Karunakaran to name a few. Sibal, Kamal Nath, Manmohan Singh, Digvijay Singh and many others are also not exactly our idea of youth.
However, the next counteroffensive from Narendra Modi of asking whether he should now call the Congress Guriya was indeed in bad taste and does not behove a leader of his status. He can and should ignore certain things. Also, if we rub something too hard, it loses its charm and effectiveness. I think repeated assertions by Advani regarding his offer to Manmohan for a public debate are also no longer making good hearing. The matter is over and something fresh is required. We can't keep flogging a dead horse. It won't go.
I think BJP brass has to learn to campaign in a better way. Needless to mention that they also need a pack of younger men and women in their teams. After Pramod mahajan's unfortunate and untimely demise BJP has no good propaganda manager. Sushma Swaraj must realise that she is a spent force. Arun Jaitley is the best and most well meaning second line politician but he needs to become more charismatic. But all that is BJP's problem and I am not a BJP person. Nor I belong to any party. I am just a nationalist an I am dismayed at the malfunctioning of our democracy. Nevertheless, on balance I believe that BJP leading NDA did much better than any Congress government ever but they failed to encash their achievements a they are not good at propaganda that the Congress mastered from the time of its close association with Soviets who were masters at the game. It is amazing that Congress could only produce two good prime ministers viz., Narsimha Rao and Rajiv Gandhi. It is more amazing that Vajpayee did more to realise Rajiv's dreams of IT revolution, expressway network, transparency in administration and government, reduction in red tape etc. than any Congress government did. What an interesting contradiction! But BJP couldn't make good capital of it too. They failed to show the behaviour of Congress and its basic lack of loyalty to anything except power (Kursi) to the public at large.
India may be good or bad but it never fails to surprise!