The Inevitable Saffronisation of the Bhopal Elections Is in Full Swing
While Digvijaya Singh appears to have the upper hand and the backing of several religious leaders, BJP's Pragya Singh Thakur and her supporters are literally painting the city saffron.
Sadhus offer ritual for the victory of Congress candidate Digvijaya Singh in Bhopal on May 7, 2019. Credit: PTI
It’s a day before polling and Bhopal is a sea of saffron.
Its almost all Digvijaya Singh’s doing. There have been yagnas and havans, hath yog kriya and sadhu road shows in the past week and it would seem that Digvijaya, a former Madhya Pradesh Congress chief minister and a declared pariah by the BJP, is aiming to become the new “Hindu Hriday Samrat” of the state.
That post had been lying vacant ever since nationalist ideas filled the minds of the supreme leadership of the BJP. It appears that Pragya Singh’s candidature from Bhopal has ignited the race for the leadership of the Hindus.
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