Punjab poll lingo: 'Pappu PM' and 'qattal-e-aam'
Friday January 27, 2012 07:28:19 PM, Jaideep Sarin,
IANS
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Chandigarh: One leader
refers to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a "Pappu PM" while
another talks of doing a "qattal-e-aam" (massacre) of party
rebels. Punjab may be going without posters and flags to keep poll
expenses in check but colourful language is in full flow.
As campaigning for the Jan 30 elections to 117 assembly seats gets
into its last phase, the tone of leaders is getting sharper.
Addressing an election rally at Khanna town near Ludhiana last
week, Punjab Congress president and former chief minister
Amarinder Singh, openly warned rebel candidates that there would
be a "qattal-e-aam" against them if they did not withdraw from the
fray against official candidates.
The comment led to a political uproar and Amarinder immediately
apologised for it.
Amarinder said: "I regret using that word in my speech and I
apologise for that." He said what he actually meant was that all
the rebels would be expelled from the party if they did not
retire.
The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
combine leaders were quick to make an issue of the remark saying
it reflected the panic in the Congress camp before the polls.
But the one who took the cake as far as colourful comments go was
BJP's Amritsar MP and cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Sidhu.
Addressing a rally in Hoshiarpur town this week, Sidhu termed
Manmohan Singh a political 'dwarf' and said he was nothing more
than a "pappu PM".
"He may be a Sardar (Sikh) but he is not 'asardar' (effective),"
he told the gathering.
"Woh arth shastri nahin, anarth shastri hai (He is not an
economist but an agent of destruction). He has given only
inflation and unemployment to this country," Sidhu said.
Drawing comparisons of the Congress party with recent superhit
item numbers from films, Sidhu said: "Eh Sheela ate Munni tohn
jada badnaam ho chuki hai, ate Jalebi Bai vaang nilaam ho chuki
hain (The Congress has become more infamous than Sheela and Munni
and has been sold out like Jalebi Bai)."
The Congress and the Akali Dal are already in the midst of an
ad-war through their 'Jeeta and Jaggi' and 'Jhootha and Thaggi'
campaigns with insinuations against each other.
The media monitoring committee of the Election Commission (EC) has
already asked both sides not to use words like 'kaka' (a reference
to Sukhbir Badal) and 'peo-puttar' (father-son, reference to
Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Badal). Even the caricatures of
Amarinder Singh have been banned by the committee.
Words like 'bulbula' (bubble), 'golak chor' (vault thief), 'sharabi'
(alcoholic) and 'gaddar' (traitor) have also been hurled by
leaders against each other in the run up to the assembly polls.
(Jaideep Sarin
can be contacted at jaideep.s@ians.in)
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