With cameras flashing, and a small Hanuman Chalisa in hand, Maharashtra BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis recited the sacred Hindu verse, whereas presenting the booklet to unbiased MLA Ravi Rana, after the MVA was given a jolt within the Rajya Sabha elections yesterday.
Rana, whose vote the Maha Vikas Aghadi – an alliance in Maharashtra consisting of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress – has requested to be nullified, had ostensibly carried the Hindu booklet whereas speaking to media in the course of the political developments yesterday. He had additionally recited the verse reportedly ‘101 times’ earlier than the polls started. A video of him reciting the Chalisa at his dwelling was circulated too.
The textual content is a sacred prayer meant to hope to and honour Hindu deity Hanuman. However, events within the state now appear to be offering it a political subtext. But how is that?
One doesn’t must look far prior to now. The Hanuman Chalisa controversy, hardly a month previous, made headlines in Maharashtra, when Ravi Rana and his spouse Navneet Rana stated they might recite the verse outdoors Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s personal residence ‘Matoshree’, which angered employees of the Shiv Sena, Thackeray’s occasion, resulting in stress.
The couple had later dropped the plan, citing a go to by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to town the following day. Apart from the IPC 353, the Ranas had been booked underneath a wide range of sections. The police had additionally slapped part 124-A (sedition) on the Independent lawmaker couple. The couple was granted bail by a particular courtroom on May 4.
After popping out of jail, Navneet Rana stated she would ‘keep fighting’ for extra non secular freedom for Hindus within the state. She had additionally posted a photograph on Twitter in saffron clothes a small statue of Hanuman.
— Navneet Ravi Rana (@navneetravirana) May 13, 2022
Now, Fadnavis appears to have jumped into the Hanuman Chalisa symbolism as nicely. “Those who insulted Hanuman Chalisa lost, and those who respected it and fought for it won,” the BJP chief stated, in a reference to MVA’s Rajya Sabha loss. He added that this was simply the trailer, and that the image was but to completely emerge.
Now, it stays to be seen how the BJP and the Ranas leverage the state of affairs within the instances to come back.
For now, the BJP is exultant with its victory in Maharashtra. While Devendra Fadnavis has credited meticulous planning in addition to group work behind it, the latest political row could have additionally leveraged the state of affairs in favour of the saffron occasion.
The BJP had fielded three candidates out of the whole six Rajya Sabha seats that went to polls on Friday. BJP candidates – Union minister Piyush Goyal, former state minister Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mahadik – gained the fiercely-fought elections, whereas Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, NCP’s Praful Patel and Congress’ Imran Pratapgarhi additionally got here out victorious. The contest was for the sixth seat – between BJP’s Mahadik and Sena’s Pawar, who misplaced. Mahadik and Pawar hail from Kolhapur in western Maharashtra.
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