A temple of Sant Ravidas in Sagar district is merely an electoral promise by BJP to woo Dalits when several Ambedkar statues have been vandalised all over Madhya Pradesh.
In BJP's national executive meet this month, PM Modi had urged leaders to visit Sant Ravidas temples & reach out to Dalits. State units now set to celebrate Ravidas Jayanti in a big way.
As PM Modi, Rahul & Priyanka Gandhi pay homage on Ravidas Jayanti, all political parties this poll season have tried to cash in on fierce Dalit pride symbolised by the Guru.
BJP is expecting lakhs of devotees to visit Varanasi’s Sant Ravidas temple ahead of 16 Feb birth anniversary. It has decided to felicitate temple saints, among other programmes.
The EC Monday postponed Punjab assembly elections from 14 to 20 February, avoiding a date on which lakhs of voters would likely be out of state to honour Sant Ravidas.
The prime minister invoked Sant Ravidas on his birth anniversary to urge people to end caste discrimination and identify those who promote it for self interest.
It used to be Tatas and Birlas in the loose political rhetoric of the 1970s and the 1980s. Today, it is Adani and Ambani in the heated Lok Sabha election campaign.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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