![]() ![]() Even as I would wait impatiently (and sometimes rudely) for the whole family to finish watching their weekly dose of Ramayan, so that I could watch ‘He-Man and the Masters of Universe’ or some other mythological show, I loved the mace-carrying Dara Singh as Hanuman. In the late 1980s, Ramanand Sagar’s epic Ram leela on Doordarshan, ‘Ramayan’, would empty out streets on Sundays in communist-ruled Kolkata. And it exists well beyond BJP subscribers. Being Hindu, displaying one’s Hindu-ness in public – even as political ‘show and tell’ – existed much before BJP tried to make itself its sole custodian. The trouble is, bhakts in BJP - as well as bhakts of BJP - choose to forget, quite ironically, that India is a Hindu majority country, not a Hindu majoritarian one (where the majority chooses to impose its numerical supremacy by demanding primacy over others), the distinction being as acute as the one between biryani and pulao. ![]() ‘Appropriating’ public displays of (Hindu) faith on the political stage seems to breed a great sense of hygiene in self-styled keepers of the (Hindu) faith. Kejriwal’s visit to the Hanuman Mandir before poll day also invited taunts from BJP prom queens, the party’s Delhi chief Manoj Tiwari going to the extent of accusing the CM of ‘touching the idol without washing his hands’. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, with Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, offers prayers at the Hanuman Mandir, Connaught Place, New Delhi after AAP’s big electoral victory on February 11 In coming days, you will see Owaisi reciting the same.’ Yes, the yogi doesn’t seem to like sharing his Hindu street credentials with his Delhi counterpart. No one likes being pointed out as not being unique.īefore the Delhi polls, upon being prompted on a news channel, Kejriwal had recited the Hanuman Chalisa, which invited Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to state with a pout, ‘Now Arvind Kejriwal has started reciting the Hanuman Chalisa. Now, one can vaguely understand BJP supporters and leaders turning their grand sulk into something therepeutic by mocking Kejriwal for his public display of devotion towards Bajrang Bali. For, in the centre of the non-lull after the storm is none other than one of their own – Pavanputra Hanuman.ĭelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has managed the impossible: getting the Hindu right and the secular left together in one corner to throw peanuts at the AAP chief. Not since the epic tussle in Lanka have the good folks of Kishkindha been glued to the news the way they have been after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stormed back to power in Delhi. ![]()
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