#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep #meatban #halal #Kitchen
Maybe its because I do a show called Elections on my plate but the fact is that I don’t like someone else telling me what I can or cannot have on my plate or what I am cooking in my kitchen. And yet, that’s what precisely a section of the BJP seems to be doing at the moment. From the party’s general secretary and Karnataka MLA CT Ravi who is calling for a boycott of halal meat.. to the BJP’s Delhi MP Parvesh Verma who wants a nationwide ban on meat sale during the Navratras, there are no shortage of food policemen at the moment. Well, since this week marked the BJP’s foundation day, let me start with a story involving the founder of the BJP, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
A young colleague in the newsroom asked a perfectly legitimate question: where were you in…
#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep
1. Modi is a magnet.
2. Yogi has arrived on the national stage
3. Mahila yojna is the new MY
4. Hindu-Muslim divide has sharpened
5. Cong is in serious decline
6. AAP is occupying the anti establishment Cong space
7. Identity politics needs a ‘plus’ factor.
8. BJP has redefined the rules of political competition
9. Fragmented Opposition lacks a credible narrative.
10. 2024 is almost a done deal for BJP
Post script: journalists need to step out of echo chambers
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