#YogiAdityanath’s biggest challenger is not #AkhileshYadav.

His real competitors are the chief ministers of other BJP-run states.

Assam, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka are four such examples, writes #PriyaRamani in #BQOpinion.

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Politicians who run these states were seemingly never automatic fundamentalists, points out #PriyaRamani.

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In 2014, Himanta Biswa Sarma, then a Congress politician, said we do not do “Hindu-Muslim”.

By 2021, he was saying India belonged to Hindus, writes Priya Ramani in #BQOpinion.

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Once upon a time, Shivraj Singh Chouhan had no problem hosting iftaar parties and wearing a skull cap.

By 2020, he said those who plotted ‘love jihad’ would be “destroyed”.

Read Priya Ramani’s ‘Rational Anthem’ column in #BQOpinion.
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Former Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa is said to have publicly celebrated the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan in 2012.

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Under Yediyurappa’s successor Basvaraj Bommai, Karnataka has taken a “sharp right turn”, writes Priya Ramani.

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Now we’re at a stage in modern Indian history where everyone knows a family member or a friend who keeps shifting the goalposts to justify the hate, writes Priya Ramani.

Read more in her #BQOpinion column.

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