MP polls: As BJP, Cong harness Hindutva, development agenda takes backseat

While the BJP is using faith as a means of distracting people's attention away from its failures, the Congress is trying to shed its anti-Hindu image

Both the Congress and BJP have turned Madhya Pradesh into a laboratory of Hindutva. No one is talking about issues such as displacement, Adivasi rights, malnutrition, famine and agriculture/farming.

While on the one hand both prominent parties, the Congress and BJP, are trying to fit their political cards to the Hindutva agenda, on the other hand even sadhus and saints are searching for their gains and losses in the light of the current political climate.

The saint vote

A “Sant Sabha” – saint’s conference – was organised in the state’s capital Bhopal on October 22 where chief minister Shivraj Singh