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@vgr
Pleasantly surprised by the Indian election results. The sadhugiri was getting a little too overwrought towards the end, so this sounds to me like the electorate calling bullshit on the religious theatrics.
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp
I won’t be so optimistic about the indian electorate, hehe. India is still a 65 percent rural country I think. What I gathered was that Yogi Adityanath was sidelined in UP and he is even a bigger sadhu. And most losses have come from there.
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@vgr
Either way, at least it looks like a democracy again. Was starting to look like a theocracy like Iran.
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@anurajenp
I think adityanath supporters will gain ground next cycle if he also wins the assembly elections there, so I guess India is stuck with them until UP GDP crosses $5000
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp
😆 this is funny https://x.com/narendramodi/status/1798178786850320594
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@vgr
Am I missing something subtext? Big boss showing junior boss who is in charge?
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@anurajenp
subtext is BJP senior leadership trying to make amends with Yogi. But I don’t know how this will go with the liberal BJP voters. I guess they will have to swallow the Yogi pill, lol
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@anurajenp
I would draw the opposite conclusion to what drew in the beginning of the theead ie a good chunk of the electorate did not get the sadhu they actually wanted 😆
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@vgr
And voted for the godless socialist instead? 🧐
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@anurajenp
no one votes for godless politicians in India. Most of the seats went SP instead of BJP in UP. And congress scraped whatever was left. I am also hearing that Congress might split in the near future as they are not ready to change leadership.
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SP is godless socialists 😁 Samajwadi = literal socialists But yeah Congress needs to dump the dynasty
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aah yeah, but they only in name no? because their vote bank is mostly caste based not socialist ideology per se
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