No one in the country except diehard bhakts are under any illusion that the Ram temple is about religion and devotion, it is totally about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his quest for greater electoral glory in 2024. For a person who purportedly spends 18 hours per day in the service of the nation , there is very little to show as far as concrete results go. He goes to every state to inaugurate projects which could have been done by the CM, on top of that he badmouths previous non-BJP governments and accuses them of not doing any development in the region. The BJP cadres and their ideological guru the RSS are ensuring that there is saturation coverage of Ram in the country. Even poor people are being forced to procure or buy Ram flags and hoist it on their houses. Not one advertisement mentions about doing anything for the poor and downtrodden. January 22 has been declared a public holiday, the stock markets are closed for half a day, it is akin to a Bharat Bandh, imagine the crores in losses such cessation of economic activity would entail. Lord Ram has been successfully appropriated by the BJP for votes, it is Lord Krishna's turn next, maybe for the 2029 elections.
