Bidhuri's boorishness has its political uses

Bidhuri may be a small fry in the larger calculus of the party. Yet, in his blundering and uncultured way, he was voicing in Parliament what has already been normalised on the streets

It seems that the BJP will not take strong action on hate speech, even if it is as egregious as the abuse hurled by its South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri in the halls of Parliament. Nor has the Bahujan Samaj Party yet come to the defence of its Muslim MP, Danish Ali, who was its target.

Even before Bidhuri could reply to a proforma show-cause notice to him, the party nonchalantly appointed Bidhuri as in charge of the Tonk assembly constituency in election-going Rajasthan.

Political observers surmise that Bidhuri has been sent to polarise voters in Tonk as