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While India is celebrating its tryst with moon and carrying forward the development odyssey, the Bharatiya Janta Party is back to its same tone and tenor to fetch the gullible votes. The party has invoked religion and has once again resorted to its same old passwords to the power –Ram Temple, Article 370 and Uniform Civil Code. These issues were in cold till recently and have suddenly cropped up with the Lok Sabha elections approaching fast, many parties have started gearing up for the day. During the last general elections, there were issues like Ram temple, abolishment of Article 370 and common civil code in the BJP agenda, however the same were not in the National Democratic Alliance's agenda. Hence the BJP could not do anything on these issues. Now, again the BJP national president Rajnath Singh has raised the temple issue at the Nagpur meet of the party saying that if the BJP gets majority then it will make a grand Ram Temple by passing the law or through the decision of Fast track court. After this announcement, main NDA's allies Biju Janta Dal and Janta Dal (United) leader and also Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar kept aside their parties from this controversial comment made by Rajnath Singh. It is clear that if National Democratic Alliance comes to power then it keeps its government away from all the three issues. It is impossible for BJP to come to power single handedly. Now, RSS president K Sudershan has given another turn to this matter by saying that Mosque was pulled down by government officials and not by the 'kar sewaks'. Obviously, his comment is politically motivated to target Kalyan Singh, who was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh at that time, now standing by pseudo secular Samajwadi Party and Mulayam Singh. He has even apologised for it. K Sudershan tried neutralizing Kalyan Singh's present move. The Ram temple issue seems like the fire, which is covered by its ashes. During election time, it is aired to cultivate the vote on majoritarian sentiments to grab the power. It is ironical that BJP considers the temple issue as the issue of faith and in order to come to power it keeps away this issue aside from NDA's agenda. The BJP's two faiths, one in Ram temple and other in NDA, make its political character laughable and also make it lose everything. At that time Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, tried to resolve the issue after unlocking the temple and creating a conducive environment but the fundamentalists not only demolished the mosque but also destroyed the conducive environment in order to gain political milieu. One had expected that BJP learnt lessons from its debacle in Delhi and Rajasthan elections which the party fought on purely communal and obnoxious issues but the wisdom does not seem to have prevailed on the saffron brigade.
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