India 2019 elections: Kumbh mela this year saw an unabashed politicisation of the festival by Hindu-nationalist organisations

An Unholy Quest

The RSS’s attempts to engulf the sadhu class

Dhirendra K Jha

01 April 2019

The Ardh Kumbh mela this year saw an unabashed politicisation of the festival by Hindu-nationalist organisations. For months, the BJP used Kumbh symbols, along with images of the two poster boys of Hindutva, Narendra Modi and Adityanath

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