Decoding Subramanian Swamy's rebellious tweet - 'mad unelectable dog' is AJ, Lord Muruga is Modi - Swamy escalates attack to PM

The nation wants to know, who is the 'mad unelectable dog', Subramanian Swamy is referring to in his latest attack tweet. The nation also wants to know if he has taken his fight to Modi calling him Lord Muruga. Twitter pic

June 29, 2016, NewsCrunch

The nation wants to know, who is the 'mad unelectable dog', Subramanian Swamy is referring to in his latest attack tweet. The nation also wants to know if he has taken his fight to Modi calling him Lord Muruga.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy posted a controversial tweet on Wednesday morning hinting that the campaign to silence him, led by Modi himself, had made little impact.

The latest tweet like most Subramanian Swamy posts, is couched in code words, and is open for multiple interpretations.

In the tweet, Subramanian Swamy, said Arnab G had been foaming in the mouth and chanting Muruga Muruga, as he had been bitten by 'a mad unelectable dog'.

There are three targets in the tweet. First, is easy to decipher and has been named: Arnab Goswami, whom Subramanian Swamy had sensationally ridiculed in one of the epic moments Indian TV history.

The second is a slightly difficult target - the 'mad unelectable dog' ? If you go by his followers' interpretation, who are gleefully decoding it, it is a certain media-savvy politician, who holds high posts and has taken on Subramanian Swamy recently.

In Arnab Goswami's infamous interview with Modi, there was a question on Subramanian Swamy's  campaign on RBI governor Raghuram Rajan. Modi had deplored and dismissed it as publicity stunt.

Subramanian Swamy's Wednesday tweet, placed in this context, seems to be blaming AJ for instigating Arnab Goswami to flag the issue during the interview.

Now, to the third and the trickiest part of the tweet, who is Muruga. Swamy himself clarified that Muruga is the Tamil name for Lord Subramanya. Muruga, Murga is a cry of devotion, which Subramanian Swamy accuses Arnab Goswami of chanting while foaming at mouth.

Ladies and gentlemen, in our esteemed opinion there is only one man, who fits the description: Modi himself.

The tweet can be arguably interpreted as Subramanian Swamy taking on the fight to Modi himself.

Before posting the 'mad unelectable dog' tweet, Subramanian Swamy had made another post disagreeing with Modi calling his campaign a publicity stunt. He said there were  30 OB bans in front of his house and 200 missed calls from the media on his phone.

Publicity had been relentlessly chasing him and it was not the other way around, he had pointed to Modi.

Let it also be placed on the record that, this is the first time, any BJP leader has publicly contradicted Modi on any issue, trivial or substantial.

In Modi's worldview, he is the fountainhead of all power and that brooks no dissent. There is omerta and there is Amit Shah to enforce it.

One man, Subramanian Swamy, seems to have a different opinion.