The 5-week long Lok Sabha election has been marred by a series of attacks and counter attacks by leaders from political parties across the spectrum. The electorate was made a witness to a never before heard vocabulary through the 9 phases of the Lok Sabha elections. While every leader has criticised the rival for derogatory remarks, most have themselves indulged in the same plot.
Just before the campaigning for the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections comes to a close on Saturday, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee closed all doors for an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. "If it is a Modi-led government, then doors are shut and the keys have been thrown away," the TMC said.
Raking up her attack against Narendra Modi, Mamata on Friday called him a 'danga babu' (which translates to 'Mr Riot'. Mamata's barbs against Modi, though are nothing new. Just a day earlier, she had hit a new low by publically addressing her Gujarat counterpart as a 'donkey'.
Modi, too, time and again has attacked the TMC leader on how she governed West Bengal. He had even taken the battle to a personal front by questioning why the TMC leader's paintings were sold in money worth crores.
This is not just a battle between Mamata and Modi, the BJP PM candidate time and again has attacked the Congress and the Gandhi family too. Adressing Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi as a 'shehzada' in almost all his rallies, he also took on Rahul Gandhi's allegations on his Gujarat model saying that Rahul played with balloons for a fortnight; he is roaming with a toffee now. "Yeh balak man jo hai, yeh balak man gubbare aur toffees ke baahar nikal nahin pa raha hai. (His childish mind is unable to come out of balloons and toffees.)," Modi said at a rally in Bihar.
Modi's 'balloon' and 'toffee' remarks against Rahul came after the Congress Vice President had said, "the BJP's balloon will burst as it did during the 2004 and 2009 general elections." Rahul had also termed the much talked about Modi's Gujarat model of development as a "toffee model", saying that it has benefited only one industrialist in the state, ignoring the interests of the farmers and the poor.
Leaving no stone unturned to level allegations in the election season, Union Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram also took a jibe at Modi calling him a compulsive liar and an encounter CM. Even when there were reports that Modi had referred to Priyanka Gandhi like his daughter, Chidambaram had said that "I am not sure if Priyanka Gandhi will be happy to consider Narendra Modi as a father figure."
Another Union minister Salman Khurshid had described Modi as "impotent" inviting a sharp condemnation from the BJP. The external affairs minister's comment came as he raised questions on the Gujarat CM's handling of the post-Godhra riots in 2002. Khurshid had once even compared Modi to the proverbial frog just out of the well.
It wasn't just the Congress leaders but the party's star capaigner Priyanka Gandhi, too, during a rally in Raebareli who took on the BJP PM candidate head on and attacked him as well as the party calling BJP a bunch of "panic-stricken rats".
Taking the political battle to an all time low, SP leader Azam Khan had called Modi an elder brother of a "dog's pup" while Beni Prasad Verma of Congress dubbed the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate as the "biggest goon" of RSS. Verma had also dubbed Modi as a monster.
While the world's biggest election might be coming to a close, the barbs by various political leaders are sure to remain engraved in the memory of the electorate.
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