KEEPING IT SHORT

While campaigning in West Bengal and Assam, Madhya Pradesh chief minister has been having some fun with acronyms. The first shot from his campaign arsenal came when he called the Congress an “SRP” (, or snake in Hindi) party—the S, R and P obviously standing for Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi. In Bengal, Chouhan said that “DIDI”, a term popularly used to refer to Mamata Banerjee, stood for “Dictator, Insensitive, Dread and Incompetent” and the TMC for “Terror, Murder and Corruption”. Whether these playful swipes get him any voter attention is another matter, but Chouhan seems to be inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s penchant for the acerbic acronym.