Repackaging Uttar Pradesh: PM's favourite Babu enters politics

There seems to be an increasing realisation in the BJP that for the party to be re-elected in UP, the Adityanath government will have to be made more palatable

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Narendra Modi | Bharatiya Janata Party | Uttar Pradesh government

Bharat Bhushan 

Bharat Bhushan

The political importance of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cannot be doubted. As a Hindutva mascot he is next only to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in terms of his popularity with the flock.

With his saffron robes marking the marriage of religion and politics – the merger of the Church and the State that Hindutva ideologues so desire – his persona remains unmatched in the BJP. PM Narendra Modi Adityanath’s rise heralded a qualitatively new stage of Hindutva’s unabashed championing of majoritarian ...

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First Published: Mon, January 18 2021. 07:58 IST
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