Perhaps it is a combination of factors driving BJP's latest flirtation with the RJBM movement. Local free lancers, core constituency and old timers looking to relive the heady days of that epoch making movement. It doesnt matter.
What matters is that given current political scenario, dipping in this political well would prove, at the very least, a damaging strategy for the BJP. Both within UP and beyond.
BJP has played its cards perfectly on the issue of secularism. Most importantly the triple talaq conundrum has pushed sickular libtards into a cul-de-sac which seems increasingly like a dead end.
BJP now occupies the moral high ground on the issue of gender rights and liberal values. Even their most stringent critics on the left will be forced to support both banning of the triple talaq and the inevitable fall out into support of the UCC that is bound to follow.
Add to this fortuitous turn of events the expertly executed surgical strike by the Indian Army and you have the makings of a new BJP that would be ideologically very difficult to defeat. Certainly on the issue of secularism.
Most importantly, triple talaq has the potential to engender deep doubts in the minds of mullahs across India. Do they trust their women to vote on traditional vote bank lines or will an electorally significant segment of muslim women break ranks and vote for the BJP behind the anonymity of voting booths. That question may prompt mullahs to sequester their women folks at home.
Either way BJP wins.
Additionally BJP benefits from the halo effect of unabashedly supporting gender justice. Non-muslim women will see BJP favorably in the years ahead if it successfully bans triple talaq and pushes for a UCC.
Congress and its many clones are now caught between a rock and a hard place. If they go against UCC/Triple Talaq they will alienate the larger Hindu and woman vote. If they support it they will lose a dedicated, belligerent vote bank.
By introducing RJMB into this mix, BJP dilutes this equation while accruing only minor political gains.
Moreover, they unite the sickular votebank and hands some of the hard earned gains back to BJP's rivals.
Surely Lord Ram would support a temporary suspension of the campaign to build a grand temple in his honor.
It will after all go a long way in saving his beloved Sanatan Dharma.
What matters is that given current political scenario, dipping in this political well would prove, at the very least, a damaging strategy for the BJP. Both within UP and beyond.
BJP has played its cards perfectly on the issue of secularism. Most importantly the triple talaq conundrum has pushed sickular libtards into a cul-de-sac which seems increasingly like a dead end.
BJP now occupies the moral high ground on the issue of gender rights and liberal values. Even their most stringent critics on the left will be forced to support both banning of the triple talaq and the inevitable fall out into support of the UCC that is bound to follow.
Add to this fortuitous turn of events the expertly executed surgical strike by the Indian Army and you have the makings of a new BJP that would be ideologically very difficult to defeat. Certainly on the issue of secularism.
Most importantly, triple talaq has the potential to engender deep doubts in the minds of mullahs across India. Do they trust their women to vote on traditional vote bank lines or will an electorally significant segment of muslim women break ranks and vote for the BJP behind the anonymity of voting booths. That question may prompt mullahs to sequester their women folks at home.
Either way BJP wins.
Additionally BJP benefits from the halo effect of unabashedly supporting gender justice. Non-muslim women will see BJP favorably in the years ahead if it successfully bans triple talaq and pushes for a UCC.
Congress and its many clones are now caught between a rock and a hard place. If they go against UCC/Triple Talaq they will alienate the larger Hindu and woman vote. If they support it they will lose a dedicated, belligerent vote bank.
By introducing RJMB into this mix, BJP dilutes this equation while accruing only minor political gains.
Moreover, they unite the sickular votebank and hands some of the hard earned gains back to BJP's rivals.
Surely Lord Ram would support a temporary suspension of the campaign to build a grand temple in his honor.
It will after all go a long way in saving his beloved Sanatan Dharma.
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