Can Kamal Nath Wilt BJP's Lotus in MP? Armed With Hindutva Trump Card, Congress Veteran Eyes Victory

Can Kamal Nath Wilt BJP's Lotus in MP? Armed With Hindutva Trump Card, Congress Veteran Eyes Victory [ad_1]

Reported By: Pallavi Ghosh

Final Up to date: August 17, 2023, 15:13 IST

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and former MP chief minister Kamal Nath provide prayers on the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain. (PTI)

Kamal Nath's temple runs, push for cow shelters, and even easy however poignant acts like reducing a temple-shaped cake with an image of Lord Hanuman on it --- all inform the story of a Congress leaving no stone unturned on the subject of profitable the state

As you drive into Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh, the landmark is the 101.8-feet Hanuman temple. Chhindwara has been the nine-time constituency of former chief minister Kamal Nath and the credit score for constructing this temple goes to him. As race for the state heats up, the combat for the Hindutva vote has grow to be fierce.

Nath lately stoked an issue when he “accepted” that 82 per cent Indians had been Hindus. His temple runs, push for cow shelters, and even easy however poignant acts like reducing a temple-shaped cake with an image of Lord Hanuman on it — all inform the story of a Congress leaving no stone unturned on the subject of profitable the state.

Whereas the pitch is the event schemes introduced by Congress, the impression of faith in a state the place it issues and has labored for BJP can't be undermined.

Take for instance the open wooing of Dhirendra Shastri or Bageshwar Baba by Nath. Bageshwar has an enormous fan following in not simply Madhya Pradesh however throughout the nation. He has caught the flowery of most religious Hindus and for Nath, it’s actually a vote financial institution he want to woo.

So, the ex-chief minister met Shastri at his ‘dham’ in February. Not simply this, he invited him for a grand ceremony on the Maruti Nandan temple in Chhindwara. Whereas the top of the Bageshwar Dham has steered away from giving political patronage to any social gathering, Nath is hopeful of his blessings.

From organising Narmada Puja to steadily visiting the Mahakal temple, making guarantees of constructing extra temples, and cow shelter to guard stray cows, Nath is leaving no stone unturned to seize the BJP’s stronghold.

Nath informed : “I've at all times been a religious Hindu. I constructed the Hanuman temple in Chhindwara lengthy again. I imagine within the Structure and I'm secular and so is the nation.”

However what can't be missed is that the social media deal with of the CM contender from the Congress exhibits him in ‘peetambar’ garments. The attention on the Hindu vote is evident. However will this ‘kamal’ be capable of counter the BJP’s lotus?

Pallavi Ghosh

Pallavi Ghosh has coated politics and Parliament for 15 years, and has reported extensively on Congress, UPA-I and UPA-II, and has now included the F...Learn Extra

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