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The consecration of a controversial Hindu temple symbolizes the seismic shift from India’s secular founding values, analysts say, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi disregards norms separating religion from state in his push to win a rare third term this year.
Modi presided over a lavish opening ceremony last month of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in the sacred town of Ayodhya, fulfilling a longstanding promise to voters that helped propel him and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in 2014.
He’s being a dumbass, but that’s the way the world is trending. Criminal politicians fuck everything up, and then other criminal politicians pretend some god or other has sent them to clean up the mess. It is said that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. To my mind it’s the second last refuge.
Modi isn’t worried. His political – er…religious – opponents will move to Canada to fuck up our country instead of his! Long live Khalistan! It’s a Canadian imperative!
I always thought it was funny that of all Castreau’s costumes, the most fitting was he, and his family’s Hindu getup. Apparently, Indians didn’t agree. They probably know, despite his presumptuousness, he’s a well paid doorman.