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Has Hindutva hijacked Modi’s mandate for development?

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Narendra Modi is a man of action. His magic has captured the nation. People from Kashmir to Kanyakumari expect him to deliver on what he promised before elections. Modi has made the mark at abroad, making India proud. The world looks at India with dignity. When his government starts delivering, there are hindrances from the hardliners within the party.

A senior Cabinet minister advocates making Bhagwad Gita the national scripture. A minister, who claims to be a sadhvi, calls non-Hindus ‘haramzade’. The HRD Minister chooses Christmas to conduct educational activities in schools. His party MPs make irresponsible statements. Is the iron man losing grip over his party? The central leadership highlights India’s secular threads while state leadership contradicts them. Affiliates from saffron camps do what Modi preaches to avoid. So much so that a senior leader and UP Governor Ram Naik reminds Modi of the commitment to build the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Do the people need to remind them they voted for BJP to revive nation’s economy, control price rise, generate employment, build roads not Ram temple, provide drinking water not the gotra Yogi Adityanath claims they belong to hundreds of years ago, or clean the Ganga river in stead of the religious mess. In the age of Internet, students need laptops to learn how to move forward not to make the Bhagwad Gita the national scripture. They want a ‘Ghar Wapsi’ of scholars from Europe and Americas to serve their nation not to convert Muslims and Christians to Hindus. Modi has got a mandate for development, good governance, curb corruption, improve law and order, generate employment…