Vile & baleful: From BJP to Congress, attacks turn personal in poll season

Campaign managers working with different political parties said often such controversial remarks are strategically made, including at the behest of rivals for obvious gains, to polarise voters

As the poll fever rises, many politicians have stooped so low that the political narrative is going below the belt -- at times, literally.

While the league of such inglorious men and women has got the usual blabbermouths like Azam Khan of the Samajwadi Party (SP) commenting on the colour of a rival's "underwear", there are also hardened politicians like Kamal Nath of the Congress making remarks about the time when the prime minister was yet of the age to learn wearing trousers.

Campaign managers working with different political parties said often such controversial remarks are strategically made, including at the behest