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The media is wrong to give Rahul, Priyanka a free pass

Even at its best, politics can be drab and dreary. The ceaseless back-and-forth of charges and counter-charges by various political parties and leaders, which acquires a fever-pitch come election time, is enough to make anyone cynical and jaded at the utter pointlessness of it all. So unimaginative have current-day leaders become that even political slogans are being recycled from times past: the invocation of the garibi hatao slogan some 40 years after it was first used on the stump by Indira Gandhi must count as the most damning admission of the failure to end poverty, yet it’s being offered as if it’s a new and magical formulation.

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