This was a reference to their leader Rahul Gandhi’s bike trip in Ladakh, and the post’s message was unambiguous: he and his party were going to demolish the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) by riding roughshod over them.

The invocation of a such a violent metaphor by a political party, the hatred conveyed by the graphic, plus the sentiment that the RSS and Congress were mutually exclusive (meaning that only one force would be allowed to exist at any given point of time in the same space), were both unbecoming and ominous…..”