Dev Kant Barooah, Congress president during the Emergency once declared, “India is Indira. Indira is India,” in a standard template of Indian political chamchagiri. Today, there are many wannabe Barooahs. “I am proud to be a Modi chamcha,” declared Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani recently.
Nihalani is not alone: Union minister Venkaiah Naidu has said that Modi is god’s gift to the nation; at Mamata Banerjee’s swearing in, ministers bowed to her in a way Bengal politicians have rarely done and in Tamil Nadu AIADMK members prostrate themselves at Jayalalithaa’s feet in servile loyalty. In fact the Tamil Nadu model of hero worship is spreading fast.
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