13.9.15

Nitish-Lalu’s soft secularism to contain Hindutva

Vinod Sharma / HT
A salient feature of Nitish’s campaign would be soft secularism. Or call it soft Hindutva if you like. The purpose is to prevent communal polarisation that suits the saffron side.

All stakeholders in the three-party combine are one in that thinking, claimed an insider. Barring pro forma references to the BJP’s past, restraint would be visible in even the speeches of Lalu, the Yadav chieftain who earned a national profile by stopping LK Advani’s Ram Rath in 1990. more

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