Coarse discourse

There has been widespread and much-deserved condemnation of the low and steadily deteriorating standards of electioneering for the five assembly polls. The terms of discourse and debate are foul, even abusive, more often than not. All parties are guilty, but the two principal contestants, the Congress and the BJP must share the bulk of the blame. Unless the rot is stemmed and reversed, what is going on today might magnify manifold in April-May 2014, when the stakes will be the control of the 16th Lok Sabha.

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