He won election from the holiest city of Varanasi. He refused the Muslim skull cap as a matter of principle. Every time Modi is asked, especially by foreign media, about a Hindutva agenda he bats it away by saying the only book he is guided by is the Constitution of India.īut this is a case not of “Read my lips” but “Watch what I do and where I do it.” Modi has never shied away from his ideological roots.
In its cautiously optimistic one year report card of the Modi government, The Economist said that while it had not supported its candidacy because of his handling of the 2002 riots, it was relieved that one year of Modi sarkar had not seen Hindu-Muslim conflagrations. Calcutta does not occupy a venerated place in the Hindu psyche the way Mathura does.
If Upadhyay had been born in Calcutta like the BJP’s other icon, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, it would have not made for such a potent symbolic backdrop to mark one year of his government.
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