As Lok Sabha election battle heats up, 'garbage', 'trash bins' become part of political discourse in Madhya Pradesh
Congress leaders to the BJP in Madhya Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, terms like 'garbage' and 'trash bins' have become part of the political discourse as the opposition party is using them to target the turncoats while the ruling party is seen hitting back in the same style.
After a Congress leader termed his party turncoats as garbage, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders also hit back at the opposition party with the «trash bin» remark. Senior Congress leader K K Mishra, media advisor to state party chief Jitu Patwari, recently said the BJP has become a dustbin, into which the trash of the Congress is being thrown.
Another senior Congress leader and party's national secretary Satyanarayan Patel last week equated the turncoats with the garbage thrown into dumping grounds. Asked about the dustbin jibe of Congress leaders, state cabinet minister Prahlad Patel told reporters on Friday, «The Narendra Modi government has put up two-three bins for the garbage, including those for dry, wet and medical waste. Now medical waste is remaining.» Reacting to the minister's comment, K K Mishra told PTI that the BJP has finally accepted the truth.
«Finally, the BJP leaders accepted that the selfish turncoats of Congress are garbage. The minister even defined three dustbins for different categories. Now the garbage has to decide which bin they would like to fit in,» Mishra said. Meanwhile, another senior BJP leader Gopal Bhargava, senior most MLA of Madhya Pradesh, described the turncoats as «berries». «Those
