Lies, cash, liquor and elections

Lies, cash, liquor and elections

Image used for representational purpose only. (File | PTI) Winston Churchill told us that it wasn’t polite to refer to lies as lies, that we should be cultured enough to call them terminological inexactitudes. But such phraseological definitudes do not apply to party manifestos in India’s hit-and-run democracy. BJP spokesmen call the Congress manifesto a pack of lies, and Congressmen describe the BJP manifesto as a field of falsities. Both are right. The only question is: Will a double dose of lies trick the Indian voter?

Perhaps the question underestimates the voter. A national survey saw 41 per cent of […]

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