Rahul Gandhi targets PM Modi in his rally, says Vajpayee better PM than Narendra Modi — Nation at 9

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds once said Atal Bihar Vajpayee himself. Little did he know that one day he would be lying ill on a hospital bed and a political one-upmanship game would be raging around him. Yesterday afternoon, Rahul Gandhi visited the ailing prime minister at AIIMS. It was good and rightful humanism. A few hours later, the PM was there, the home minister, the BJP president and the health minister. Today, Rahul decided that going there first was something to be politically underlined, as if it was some sort of race. And the BJP brass had been negligent on caring for their party great. He underlined this a bit later drawing comparison with Eklavya from Mahabharat, accusing Modi's BJP of sidelining it's gurus like Vajpayee and Advani. And even sang praises of Vajpayees service to the country and his great statesmanship. It's started looking like a bit of bizarre science fiction, a political parallel universe where a congressmen of 50 years, a man who served in the cabinet of every congress PM since Indira is getting flowers from the RSS, where the quintessential maker of the modern BJP is being hailed by the congress. In the war to propitiate each other icons, the questions are simple, one is political, one is human. The political question is why does the congress feel that drawing comparisons with Vajpayee will somehow weaken Modi and the human question is, should politics be played over a man on a sick bed?