What Plagues Indian Netas? A Serious Case of Foot-In-Mouth Disease

Indian politicians have a tendency to go over-board with their remarks on their colleagues. And they can’t stop!

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘raincoat’ remark has been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism. (Photo: The Quint/Liju Joseph)

From dogs and earthquakes to raincoats and bathrooms, Indian democracy has seen it all. More often than not, our politicians go all out in their criticism of their political colleagues. Take Narendra Modi’s comment earlier this week about Manmohan Singh bathing with his raincoat on. The Prime Minister was questioning how his predecessor had come out clean from all the corruption charges when other Congress members had not.

But he is not the first one to overstep the line – the line of offending your colleagues.

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Our politicians do have a knack of throwing snide remarks and taking snarky digs at their opponents. Here is more proof:

Mallikarjun Kharge to Narendra Modi

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Sanjay Nirupam to Smriti Irani

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Narendra Modi to Sunanda Pushkar

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Digvijaya Singh to Arvind Kejriwal

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Daya Shankar Singh to Mayawati

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Raj Thackeray to Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan

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Anisur Rahman to Mamata Banerjee

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Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti to the Opposition

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