10 things Modi shouldnt talk about when he speaks in Mysore

April 09, 2019 12:07

Prime minister Narendra Modi's election speeches all sound the same everywhere: a high-pitched, nasal drone of the badlaav BJP will bring to the soil he is stomping that day.Today, it is Mysore's turn.

Although the election schedule in Karnataka hasn't been announced yet, Modi's bhashan will doubtless be a sales pitch for the blind BJP bhakt, a blend of bluff, boast, bluster, blather, and bullshit -- short on facts and high on rhetoric.

With some tea-stall level alliteration ("latkana, atkana, bhatkana') and nursery-school level abbreviation 'TOP' (tomato, onion, potato) thrown in.

Red meat for India's brainless TV channels and graduates of WhatsApp University.

Here are 10 things the prime minister shouldn't say in Mysore, because this isn't quite the gau-belt city he is accustomed to holding in thrall of the "Gujarat Model".

Read the column on Churumuri here.

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