Should the Prime Minister of India campaign for assembly polls? In the end all elections get dirty, whether it’s taking place in the largest democracy or the oldest. Assembly elections in India get even dirtier and for candidates out on the hustings in Uttar Pradesh, it has a distinct flavor all its own. Doesn’t it demean the dignity of the prime minister’s high office to get barbs from a rival chief ministerial candidate like ‘I would request the superstar of our century to stop campaigning for the asses of Gujarat’? Or to hear Rahul Gandhi say in a press conference in Lucknow, ‘The Prime Minister is fond of Google searching, peeping into others' bathrooms’. In keeping with falling standards, Narendra Modi’s speeches too have sunk low to utterances like this one in a rally in Kannuaj, taking on Akhilesh Yadav: ‘Before sitting on Congress’ lap, remember the heinous attack on your father by the Congress in 1984.’