A PSA (Public Service Announcement) for those who don’t get Modi’s newfound love for religious attire and be seen as a pious Hindu, here’s some news: His core RW voter base, and its educated influencers, have moved away from him over the past year or two.
Why? He is not Hindu enough for them, who are disgusted, disillusioned, and actually angry by his giving a chaadar at Salim Chishti’s dargah (there’s a photo of him inspecting it with Naqvi that you will see these hardcore people sharing), visiting the last Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar’s grave in Myanmar (there are photos being shared), his meeting the Pope at the Vatican, his lack of ability to push through the CAB, his reticence on NRC, his attempts at shoving Yogi into obscurity at the national level, his paying obeisance to Gandhi, his frustrated efforts to jail the Vadra-Gandhis, and his perceived refusal to wade into controversies from the complex ones like murders of RSS workers to the simple ones like the hijaab at school matter making headlines today.
Recently, when I put up a Twitter status about his nautanki, (almost) everyone who retweeted it is a RW supporter. And not the soft-Hindutva kinds too. I was not surprised.
Why am I telling you this? Because the liberal intellectuals seem to be having fun mocking him and his recent saree-clad avatar. The truth, ladies and gentlemen, I am sad to declare, is that you aren’t his intended audience anyway. He has his eyes firmly set on winning back those that are seeing a distinct shortage of Hindu appeasement and are hence shifting their loyalties to Yogi. If anything, you’ll see MORE of this than less in the near future.
And if that doesn’t scare you, you are either lying or a Gurkha.
