The difference is the BJP is promoting thinkers and ideologues while the Congress promoted one family. One could claim that the BJP is doing now what the Congress has done for decades. There is nothing wrong with dusting off forgotten icons and re-evaluating their place in history. The ringing cries of вЂњHar har Modi, ghar ghar ModiвЂќ did the job quite splendidly at his rallies even though he half-heartedly tried to shush them. Modi does not need to spell out his ideology in words. And now he will deliver his one-year anniversary speech from Mathura. He won election from the holiest city of Varanasi. He refused the Muslim skull cap as a matter of principle. Every time Modi is asked, especially by foreign media, about a Hindutva agenda he bats it away by saying the only book he is guided by is the Constitution of India.Д«ut this is a case not of вЂњRead my lipsвЂќ but вЂњWatch what I do and where I do it.вЂќ Modi has never shied away from his ideological roots.

In its cautiously optimistic one year report card of the Modi government, The Economist said that while it had not supported its candidacy because of his handling of the 2002 riots, it was relieved that one year of Modi sarkar had not seen Hindu-Muslim conflagrations. Calcutta does not occupy a venerated place in the Hindu psyche the way Mathura does. If Upadhyay had been born in Calcutta like the BJPвЂ™s other icon, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, it would have not made for such a potent symbolic backdrop to mark one year of his government.

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