Devnani, Batra and baloney: Why do BJP members make idiotic public remarks?

The claim the cow exhales oxygen is simply anatomically impossible; methane is what it produces.

Have you ever wondered why so many members of the BJP — or people closely affiliated to the party — are prone to making idiotic remarks? This is not a facetious or rhetorical question. It arises out of one simple fact: they keep doing this. Indeed, so often I’ve lost count.

Last week Vasudev Devnani, Rajasthan’s education minister, publicly claimed the law of gravity was discovered by Brahmagupta a thousand years before Isaac Newton. More incredibly, he made this statement at the 72nd Foundation Day celebrations of the University of Rajasthan. The only proof Devnani offered was “if you delve deeper”