Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 10: BJP today described as “unfortunate” and in “bad taste” the derogatory remarks made by Congress leader Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz against veteran BJP leader L K Advani.
“It is most unfortunate, hurtful and in bad taste some of the personal derogatory remarks made by Prof Soz against BJP leader L K Advani,” BJP National Executive Member and J&K chief spokesperson Dr Jitendra Singh said in a statement here today.
He said if this downward trend continues, one shudders to imagine to what low level the political disclosure will fall in the times to come, particularly when someone as literate as Prof Soz also chooses to use such expressions.
Referring to the rich tradition of mutual respect established by the founding fathers of Indian Republic, Dr Jitendra Singh reminded Prof Soz that even in the worst of times when his Party patriarch Jawahar Lal Nehru disagreed or lost his temper with Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, he would immediately apologize without making any personnel insinuations against Mukherjee.
He said on one occasion Nehru had taken the unusual initiative of introducing young Opposition leader Atal Behari Vajpayee to the visiting Soviet leader Khrushev as a potential Prime Minister of future India.
Imploring upon leaders from all political parties to exercise discretion, Dr Jitendra Singh said it is the responsibility of senior politicians like Prof Soz to set an example of respectful disagreement with their opponents so that young political activists across the party lines could also follow the same.
Taking exception to these remarks, Dr Singh said political discourse would degenerate if this trend continued.
“If this downward trend continues, one shudders to imagine to what low level the political discourse will fall in the times to come,” the BJP leader said.
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