The appointment of Hindutva leader Yogi Adityanath as chief minister has converted the majority verdict in UP into a majoritarian one, and PM Modi has taken a huge risk given his sabka saath, sabka vikas rhetoric. “I am seeing a new India…a new India that is about opportunities,” thundered the Prime Minister 24 hours after the BJP’s staggering victory in UP. A cross-caste, cross-class coalition voted in the BJP on the promise of parivartan and a “new India”. But now with the appointment of Adityanath, the Sangh Parivar has triumphed over Modi’s hard work in re-building his own image as a development icon rather than Hindu Hriday Samrat.
Verdict 2017 in UP has been brutally divisive. Muslim representation in UP’s assembly Read More
