Narendra Modi is setting a new example by keeping the bad-mouthed and loud leaders at bay, refraining from giving them tickets and wrongly encouraging them in politics.
As the BJP released its first list of 195 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, some omissions stood out more than the names that made it to the list.
These include firebrand leader Pragya Thakur and sitting MPs from Delhi, Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, and Ramesh Bidhuri.
These three leaders have made headlines for their controversial remarks inside and outside Parliament, and the BJP's decision to drop them sends a message that the party is taking no chances ahead of an election in which it faces a joint Opposition.
On the other hand, Chandrababu Naidu is setting a different example by encouraging bad-mouthed leaders like Raghu Rama Raju, who has verbally attacked the Reddy community in different TV Talks and branded CM Jagan Mohan Reddy as a Christian.
Chandrababu also supports a mere social media debater like Kolikipudi Srinivas Rao, who physically attacked a national party leader in a TV studio and announced a Rs 1 Cr reward for bringing film director Ram Gopal Varma's head. Chandrababu gave a ticket to contest to this individual.
Babu also provided a ticket to Mahasena Rajesh, another loud-mouthed and controversial individual who called for love-jihad between the upper caste girls and SC boys against a monetary reward. But later Babu made him quit the contest citing backlash from different upper-caste Hindu communities.
Chandrababu is still adhering to the age-old formulaic political scenario where controversial, rowdy elements, and loud-mouthed individuals are encouraged in politics.
This illustrates how regressive Chandrababu is and how progressive Narendra Modi is.
