BJP & its pawns have played hard hindtuva and got away with it for a two decades now. Cause people never thought that any line would be crossed. That we are not like jehadis. Breaking a mosque down is symbolic but theres no personal element to it.
No, the hard hindutva of the 90s didn't pay off so its soft hindutva. Upper caste politics doesn't win elections. Got to pander to the lower classes like Congress. And the politics of the BJP has been just that. What is notes ban if not class warfare ? who was it supposed to appease. The lower classes at the expense of the middle classes those with assets and means to actually have any black money to begin with. It's funny to see this from a so called right of centre party. But then the right in India isn't exactly like the right elsewhere, at some point it loops back on to the left
The babri thing didn't play any role in 2014, it was hardly mentioned because the people who voted Modi in weren't even born then. You seem to think Modi got in on the Hindutva vote, which incidentally is what the fringe promotes. All the research i've seen suggests its was the young, those desperate for jobs that voted him in. The hardcore don't appreciate this fact, they think its hard hindutva that did it. I see no difference between yur position and their which does not surprise me but i think is mistaken
This caught attention cause Hindus like us, who were disgusted at how a kid was raped & killed in a Temple, with the aim to intimidate a minority. That's not an easy pill for sane people to swallow. Religious or not, temples are places with extremely positive energy. Raping kids in the place you worship goddesses, put things in such a contrast that no one could look anywhere else, it was not something you could ignore.
ask yourself how is it possible
a) to hold some one against their will in a place of worship, how many people have to be in the loop there
b) rape them in said premises, in which places of worship is this tolerated
This temple thing is suspect to me
If i were to be cynical, the findings were to prevent a communal flare up and prevent militants from further exploiting the situation. This would then explain why these ekta mach types take to the streets because they find themselves completely shamed perhaps wrongfully even. Something about that 4k number makes me think something extra happened.
I don't get the involvement of BJP MP's in this affair either. It just looks incredibly bad. Distancing is what you expect not rallying and defending
This response was a roar from the non-right wing hindus, which is like 90% of hindus, that you wont do this kind of shit in our name. That we do not stand for that. That we have taken notice that you are crossing lines, and you wont do that in our name. At the height BJP got 31% votes with the fake development chant covering the religious bigotry. Now all the pretenses are off, and theres no effort to even hide it.
I don't see this as right wing or not. Any one in their normal sense would react. it remains to be seen how much the fallout from this incident is. How long lasting it will be. Might effect elections in the short term but after a year who will remember. That is unless the opposition manages to keep it going and we don't get further adverse developments
