The BJP has a very confused mindset. On one side it claims to be the custodian of our nationalism and then brings up the colonial masters on the other side in the context of the Sengol. The fact that after 76 years India has been able to build a new Parliament is a good thing. Why spoil this moment by bringing the British into it? The Sengol is stated to have been given by Lord Mountbatten to Jawaharlal Nehru as a symbol of power and transfer of governance is nothing but yet another event relating to symbolism leading up to India's Independence. The Chola kings may have used it to convey transfer of power at the time of succession or when a new king ascended the throne. As for the BJP a party predominantly holding dominance in the cow belt in the North accepting a royal tradition of South Indian kings like the Cholas is another odd note in the Sengol matter. If Modi thinks by accepting the Sengol as a symbol of transfer of power and installing it in Parliament anoints him as a ruler of India then he is sadly mistaken.
