The slap makes news while Congress invokes Vajpayee
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The day after around 100 million people in the nation’s capital and some other parts of the country cast their votes, the level of political activity seems to have quietened slightly.
The slap across Arvind Kejriwal’s face seems to still dominate most election analyses. The Economic Times writes being slapped repeatedly may not inspire confidence among his followers on his ability to lead but Kejriwal has scored a lot of brownie points by the way he has reacted to being slapped, conveying a message of forgiveness and large-heartedness.
The slap has also aroused the curiosity of a professor of physiology at the Banaras Hindu University. The professor plans to undertake a study of the behaviour of voters to understand why there is such aggression among people, writes The Times of India
G. Sampath analyses the slap and what it means for AAP and India’s political landscape in an opinion piece for Mint. Sampath looks at the slap’s impact on all the people involved including the media and rival political parties.
Meanwhile DNA has put together a timeline of the various attacks on Kejriwal and his reaction to them, including the fact that he blames everyone else but the attackers for the attacks.
Baba Ramdev, however, is not attacking Kejriwal any more. The godman has promised the AAP leader all the support he needs if Kejriwal takes on Sonia Gandhi, reports Business Standard
In other news, Mint reported that the Election Commission of India (EC) has admitted that it will not be able to scrutinize manifestos and act against political parties that have not disclosed the financial implications and fiscal burden of their promises—something it had highlighted in an earlier order.
Interestingly, not much was written about Narendra Modi’s sudden realization that he is married to a woman and the country is not his only love. DNA writes that this slight infraction of his was driven by the need to rise within the RSS.
The Congress unleashed a new line of attack against Modi invoking Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s criticism of the Gujarat chief minister. “Just think! Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee did not think this man deserved to be chief minister, can you put the country’s future in his hands?" says the ad, NDTV reports.
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