#ChowkidarChorHai: Rahul and Divya Spandana go back in their words of not hurling personal abuses at PM Modi

It appears that both Congress President Rahul Gandhi and the party's social media head Divya Spandana are doing a complete u-turn regarding insulting the prime minister of the country.

A few months ago, while campaigning during the Gujarat elections, Gandhi had warned party workers not to insult the office of the prime minister. "You can be critical of his policies, but there should be no personal attack," he had said and to prove that he was walking the talk, went ahead to suspend Mani Shankar Aiyar for calling PM Modi a 'neech aadmi'.

With controversy surrounding the Raflae deal reaching new levels, Gandhi seems to have had a change of heart and has been openly calling PM Modi a thief - a personal attack, mind you.

His party's social media head, Divya Spandana, is not far behind putting out memes on her Twitter handle, accusing PM Modi of being a thief.

The BJP and Congress have been known for years to exchange personal barbs at each other. There were a lot of comments on UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's nationality during the 2004 General Elections, and subsequently there were allegations on her social status before she married Rajivl Gandhi.

Both the Congress and BJP have been guilty of insulting the office of the prime minister. The BJP did it in during the UPA-2 tenure by making statements on Manmohan Singh. The Congress is doing it now regarding PM Modi.

While this social media battle will result in several comments, retweets, quotes, and memes, and maybe even a few laughs and a few insults, bottom line is that it's still difficult to determine what the voter is thinking. Will they worry more about a scam or corruption or are they more interested in the price of general commodities or in receiving free healthcare?

India is in a crux, where many of its leaders are overtly dependent on social media, but fail to realise that only 50% of the country's population have access to Internet. It's the remaining 50% who will determine the fate of the next government.

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