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Placing Hindu religious idols on banknotes. This is not the latest discovery by Hindu nationalists from India’s ruling BJP, but a proposal from the opposition AAP party. As Gujarat’s landmark legislative elections open, he doesn’t hesitate to hunt in the lands of Hindu populism, at the risk of causing people to jump.
With our correspondent in Bangalore, Como Bastin
Next to Gandhi, why not the elephant god Ganesh or money goddess Lakshmi on paper money? A nonsensical proposal has little chance of success. Moreover, those who came not from the central government, but from Arvind Kejriwal, the mayor of Delhi and a figure from the Ordinary People’s Party, AAP.
The departure is surprising from a movement built more on anti-corruption than bigotry. According to the chairman of the Congress party, Sandeep Dikshit, this flirtatious face shows that the AAP is ready to do whatever it takes to win votes.
It must be said that the AAP, with the power of its recent victory in Punjab, launched its power in the Gujarat legislative elections. This state, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut his teeth, is said to have been acquired by Hindu nationalists. The AAP first campaigned for education and development there.
However, the secularism that the AAP regularly displays is called into question. Recently, one of his ministers was expelled for attending a Buddhist conversion event. Election tactics or ideological drift? Questions rage.
To reread: India: resignation of a minister from Delhi region amid religious conversion
