The ongoing campaign for Assembly elections in Telangana has touched a new low this time with the major parties, at least some of their leaders if not all, resorting to use of filthy and objectionable language, aped of ideas for mass communication such as songs and advertisements, and copied schemes in manifestos.
In the absence of availability of authentic information and lack of mechanism to cross-check the information being spread, the electorate were taken for a ride by all major political parties as people are not fully aware as to who is speaking facts and half-truths and who is spreading lies. Not only the electorate, event the party ranks are were pushed into confusion with fake, deep fake and fabricated videos made with an objective to demoralise the opponent camps.
The choice of words, its tone and tenor by certain leaders in the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) camps in particular this election has crossed all limits of decency compared to the approach and attitude exhibited by the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). Those who followed the campaign styles of the three-four major parties can observe the marked difference this time.
