Sadhvi Pragya’s candidature reveals BJP’s political project in Bhopal | The Indian Express

Sadhvi Pragya’s candidature reveals BJP’s political project in Bhopal | The Indian Express

Written by NK Singh |Updated: May 7, 2019 11:41:47 am

The writer is a Bhopal-based journalist

Sadhvi Pragya’s candidature reveals BJP’s political project in Bhopal

As the Congress flexed its muscles, the BJP bared its fangs. It knows that fielding Pragya Singh Thakur against Digvijaya Singh would lead to polarisation. That seems to be its ideological agenda.

Thakur’s candidature took many by surprise. The BJP has no dearth of tall leaders in Madhya Pradesh to challenge Digvijaya Singh, the Congress candidate from Bhopal who was the state’s chief minister for a decade. (PTI)

The BJP has made Bhopal the epicentre of its Hindutva ideology by fielding terror-accused Pragya Singh Thakur as its candidate for the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat. A BJP bastion for the past 30 years, Bhopal has suddenly become the site of one of the most interesting electoral and ideological battles in the country.