Bundle of confusion, oodles of rhetoric

The irrepressible Subramanian Swamy tweeted at Rahul Gandhi’s first major attempt at public speaking: “First he confused a piling of cow dung as a mountain of corpses. Now he says Rani ki Jhansi. As Prof I say: Write 1000 times Jhansiki Rani!” That bloomer, coupled with a string of confused metaphors, saw the social media quickly give the thumbs down to #PappuCII, a fact even television anchors were forced to admit. The stoic praise from the captains of industry and the valiant defence by fellow travellers (all the king’s horses and all the king’s men) could not salvage the mess.

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