Undeniably, senior congress leader Shashi Tharoor finds the appropriate period to bring into use the very old American term of snollygoster just for bringing to light the shrewd and unprincipled politician in the glare of the public. Although the very term happens to be strictly an American word that has been used for more than a century. Exactly the year mentioned by him remains the year of1845.
Just now he seems to have used the term for none other than Bihar’s popular leader Nitish Kumar who is said to have been ably maintaining his position as Chief Minister of the State in all the circumstances. What a rush to reinforce this extraordinary word.
This unique word was also shared in the year 2017. When Nitish Kumar broke away from the grand alliance in Bihar with the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress. He returned to the BJP despite being rivals for a long time. It has thus meticulously proved that there is no foe or friend in politics.
The US dialect as he mentioned in his retort had too been habituated in the year 2019 when BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as chief minister of Maharashtra with the Nationalist Congress Party’s Ajit Pawar seemingly switching over to support a BJP-led government. Over the days, he did bring a revealing yet satirical node reminiscent of the open criticism.
Later, the Congress party leader curiously used the term by taking a swipe at party-hopping politicians in November 2022. He throws the rare word in his post with an odd video of a chameleon changing shades as it climbs a colour-banded pole. Scarcely any other similar word will retain huge demand from tongue-wagging politicians. The senior politician offers a more refined take on the persisting trend with monochromatic facts. We look forward to seeing what else he has in his diction for the political leaders.
His sharp-witted jibe did not even escape the politicians during the Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat assembly polls. However, it can not be altogether evaded to sat that he was setting a parallel line with political leaders whenever they were found to be shifting their significant sides.