It is shocking that Rajasthan home minister Gulab Chand Kataria should not only adopt a derogatory tone about former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but also use abusive language in referring to the former PM while addressing his party workers in Churu. A state home minister is typically a senior politician. It is disturbing that the saffron party should have among its top leaders people who have no sense of civilised language. Dr Singh is not only a former PM but also an eminent Indian, a former distinguished professor, and an internationally acclaimed economist.
Mr Kataria and his party should realise that speaking insultingly about anyone in public life, more so an exalted personage who has led the country, disgraces the speaker and not the person he has referred to. It shows him to be a boor and a poor leader. Regrettably, under the present dispensation leaders of Opposition parties and those who dissent against the establishment are routinely harried, disparaged and attacked. This seems to create an overall atmosphere of disrespect about opponents. As a gesture of good conduct, and in the interest of a healthy political atmosphere, the Rajasthan leader deserves to be reprimanded.
