Criticising political rivals is part of politics and there is nothing wrong in it. It is quite common that political leaders attack their rivals in strongest words.
In Andhra Pradesh, too, we have been watching leaders of YSR Congress party and Telugu Desam Party attacking each other but most of the times, they are confined to the policies and programmes.
We have never seen YSRC president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy making personal comments against TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, though he has been strong in attacking Naidu on the governance as well as party politics. And Naidu also did not make any personal allegations against Jagan.
There were a couple of occasions when leaders like YSRC MLA R K Roja and TDP MLA Bonda Uma crossing the limits in political abuses, but not to the extent of using vulgar language.
But after seeing the kind of language Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had used against Naidu and the Congress leaders, one would feel he has erased all the boundaries in personal criticism.
Nobody would find fault with KCR for attacking Naidu for his volte face on high court bifurcation, special category status and shifting loyalties from Bharatiya Janata Party to the Congress.
These points were raised even by YSRC and BJP leaders in criticising Naidu. But they confined themselves to Naidu’s stand on these issues. They did not abuse him in vulgar language that cannot even be mentioned in print.
In fact, the print media which reported KCR’s verbal diarrhoea on Sunday morning refrained from mentioning his comments verbatim.
No doubt, Naidu is making tall claims about his government’s achievements and blaming the Centre to cover-up his failures. In what way KCR is concerned about the government in the neighbouring state where he had no stakes?
He even blamed it on YSRC and BJP for not exposing Naidu and said he would take up the responsibility. What is his interest in AP?
Setting aside his own reasons for poking his nose into AP politics, the language KCR is using Naidu or for that matter any other leader is definitely very bad. For a person in the position of chief minister, such language only reflects his culture.
The sooner KCR learns decency, the better.
