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Replete with contradictions. @virsanghvi your piece sometimes calls Hindus above voting on caste and religion and other times make them come across as restive if their pro Hindutva agenda is not met. You accuse the govt of dragging foreign powers https://virsanghvi.com/Article-Details.aspx?key=1707
In the protest but also admit that Pakistan is trying to create a pro Khalistan divide. You accuse BJP of playing Hindutva card while admitting that votes of minorities don't count in winning elections. The fact of the matter is it is the electorate who decides who must govern
And your piece assumes the majority Hindu electorate is stuck in a time warp with no change in their thinking or context. The electorate isn't dumb and never was. They are the ones who define the criteria of winnability that parties leverage in their election strategy. More often
Than not the voter has voted on the basis of performance of the local representative. It is a known fact that caste or religion swing the vote only when the performance criterion is met. Otherwise why do you think Congress party is being rejected everywhere? The only exception is
AIMIM - where unfortunately a minority has made religion the winnable formula. Arvind Kejriwal has now jumped in the fray in an attempt to replicate the formula. Both these cases and your piece assume intellectual innocence of the electorate. The electorate is watching and knows
Who is a khalistani sikh and who is an aggrieved farmer. In much the same way as we knew who were really getting affected because of #CAA_NRC. Seriously I wish you go out there and meet the farmers - from the protesting and non protesting states and talked to them. And gave us a
Perspective of both. Frankly very tired of this armchair narrative you keep on spinning doing an immense disservice to your journalistic talent. Remember the electorate is also a news consumer. If it knows who to bring to power next, it also knows which scribe to dis/believe
Whether it is a political party or a journalist, people reward those who deliver the core promise of their jobs - serving the nation and disseminating truth and balanced perspective respectively. The context has changed while you were writing your next piece!
