Gandhian Congressmen had set worse precedent for Subramanian Swamy

BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy statement that Priyanka Gandhi drinks too much alcohol may have outraged the Congress and its sympathisers and BJP-Modi haters.

But there is a precedent, far worse than it, set up by self-proclaimed Gandhian leaders of the Congress in Rajasthan.

Some of them indulged in character assassination of first-time woman Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje by accusing her of drinking at night, targeted her single woman status and publicised the very personal tragedy of her broken marriage as maliciously as they could.

This carried on for a full decade in a very systematic manner through persons occupying high positions, pamphlets, posters and word-of-mouth campaigns.

It was the main focus of two Assembly campaigns and one Lok Sabha bid of the Congress. It was part of a several times more consistent and powerful strategy than one odd statement against Priyanka Gandhi who has no standing vis-a-vis Raje by one BJP man who is anyway notorious for his quotes.

Hardly anyone expressed outrage against such attacks on Raje. Many others rejoiced at it. Self-proclaimed activists and feminists, often qualified by mediapersons as prominent, remained quiet. They rather backed those doing it on many other issues.

It was because ideologically, they are aligned with the Congress and are against the BJP. Will they speak up for Raje, at least now?

And will the Congress act against their own who targeted Raje for 10 years on such issues?