By nominating Pragya Singh Thakur as its candidate from Bhopal , the BJP has declared that it wants to fight this election in the name of Hindutva , to the hell with development. The BJP has done the biggest disservice not to the Congress but to these supporters.Pragya is vernacular for Prajna or deep consciousness. The BJP has now chosen to wear its prajna on its sleeve.The BJP claims that use of the term Hindu terror or saffron terror damns the entire community of Hindus as terrorists, instead of accepting the simple reality that the term was used to describe terror carried out in the name of the Hindu identity, supposedly to avenge the bomb attacks on Hindus by Islamic terrorists. The BJP presents itself like the Batman villain, Two-Face, one half of the face the handsome visage of a former crusader against crime, the other half, a disfigured, inhuman contortion of hatred. They will have to either pretend not to see one half of the face at all, and themselves become two-faced, or embrace that hatred as well.The BJP should not have gifted its supporters this choice between schizophrenia and paranoia.

Source: Economic Times April 19, 2019 11:48 UTC