I had been resisting the urge to write against this motormouth. He stood third in the recently concluded SCBA elections and barely managed to save his security deposit. Politics apart...nothing is more inconsequential than which political ideology one subscribes to, or whether one jumps from the Samajwadi Party to the BJP...or from the BJP to God knows where. What truly disturbs me..and what has been bothering many Supreme Court lawyers...is his buffoonery in the name of advocacy his peculiar practice of making the kettle sound hotter than the tea itself. It gives me immense pain and disgust to see someone who claims to be a lawyer and speaks as a party spokesperson, descend to such gutter-level language. His own party of all people...should remind him of the illustrious tradition of lawyer-politicians like Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Ram Nath Kovind among others. They took on the Opposition, often fiercely. But they did so with command over the subject, parliamentary eloquence, intellectual depth and an astonishing universe of knowledge. Their arguments were not merely sound bites...they were the product of decades of intellectual and political labour. That generation of articulate leaders spent three to four decades building the intellectual foundations that helped their party emerge as a formidable political force in 2014. Unfortunately this man epitomises the rot that has gradually crept into the party's cadre, whereere noise substitutes for knowledge, abuse for argument, and buffoonery for eloquence. God save the party.