India: Hindu religious idols on banknotes, the funny idea of the AAP
Idols of the Hindu goddess of wealth Lakshmi, and the Hindu god Ganesh, on a stand in Kolkata, Monday October 24, 2022. AP - Bikas Das
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Placing Hindu religious idols on banknotes.
This is not the latest discovery of the Hindu nationalists of the BJP, in power in India, but a proposal of the opposition party AAP.
As the important legislative elections of Gujarat open, he does not hesitate to hunt on the lands of Hindu populism, at the risk of causing people to jump.
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With our correspondent in Bangalore,
Côme Bastin
Alongside Gandhi, why not the elephant god Ganesh or the money goddess Lakshmi on banknotes?
The preposterous proposal has little chance of succeeding.
Especially since it does not come from the central government, but from Arvind Kejriwal, mayor of Delhi and figure of the Ordinary Man's Party, the AAP.
This exit was surprising from a movement that was built more on anti-corruption than bigotry.
According to the leader of the Congress party, Sandeep Dikshit, this volte-face shows that the AAP is ready to do anything to win votes.
Aam aadmi se Mahatma tak ?????
This man is a beyond the limits of hypocrisy.... pic.twitter.com/9cs5rtP7Lx
— Danish Aleem (@Danishaleem_INC) October 27, 2022
It must be said that the AAP, on the strength of a recent victory in Punjab, is launching its forces in the legislative elections of Gujarat.
This state, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut his teeth, is reputed to have been acquired by Hindu nationalists.
The AAP first campaigns there on education and development.
Still, the displayed secularism of the AAP is regularly questioned.
Recently, one of his ministers was kicked out for attending a Buddhist conversion event.
Electoral tactic or ideological drift?
The question rages.
►Read again: India: resignation of a minister from the Delhi region amid religious conversion
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