Horses For Courses

Rahul Gandhi's statement in Bhopal recently about there being three kinds of horses—Race Ka Ghoda (racehorse), Baraat Ka Ghoda (wedding horse) and the third category being Langda Ghoda (lame horse)—has not gone down well with the old guard in the state; perhaps because the (still) tallest leaders belong to the last category.

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If you recall, two former Chief Ministers, Digvijaya Singh and Kamal Nath are still active in state politics apart from other veterans.

Rahul was addressing the Congress Workers' Convention in Bhopal when he used this analogy against senior leaders, whom he felt had outlived their utility. He remarked, "Kamal Nath had said that the Congress party sometimes sends a racehorse to the wedding procession and sometimes makes the wedding horse stand in the race line. But there is a third category, which is a lame (langda) horse, so we have to differentiate. We have to retire the lame horse, so this change has to be brought."

The Congress, being the Congress, after Rahul's derisive comments, the old guard has started to message each other, signing off as Langda Ghoda.