I know, I know – stupidity hath no bounds. Especially coming from India’s eminent political party which claimed credit for the Slumdog Oscar win :

In an unmistakable resonance of the previous NDA government’s `India Shining’ slogan, Congress floated the idea of an `achieving India’ and listed among the milestones the Indo-US nuclear deal, Chandrayaan, near 9% growth and the total sweep of the Oscars.

“They represent the finest traditions of our film industry and are an inspiration to all of us,” Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said. Her party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi went a few steps ahead and termed Slumdog Millionaire “a film of India, for India, by India” and talked about the “conducive atmosphere with emphasis on good governance contributing to an achieving India”.

Firstly, Slumdog is not an Indian film – it’s British. Secondly, what “conducive atmosphere” ? I assume they mean the assistance of the Congress party in creation of the slums, and ensuring that people remain in them, than in habitable housing. And if that is not enough to make me want to puke out the contents of my stomach, here is the latest from this great party – it wants to use “Jai ho” as it’s campaign song.

Hoping for a ‘Jai ho’ at the Lok Sabha elections, Congress has decided to adopt A R Rahman’s Oscar-winning song in its poll campaign to drive home the message that its regime has been “a saga of hope for the common man“.

A senior party leader said Congress has bought the rights of the song and the tune from T-Series music company for use in the elections.Congress will be using the song exclusively to reach out to the people to convey that its regime has been a saga of hope for the common man, the leader said.

Hope for the common man indeed ! How disassociated from reality can you get ?