Temple go to, praising Brahmins and what not: Prashant Kishor’s final minute techniques to save lots of Mamata in Nandigram backfire

Mamata Banerjee, earlier than being injured by an accident in Nandigram, was being projected by the TMC as ‘Sanatani Mamata’. This was maybe a closing try by I-PAC chief Prashant Kishor to cease the consolidation of Hindu votes within the BJP’s favour. As a matter of reality, whereas in Nandigram, the place the TMC supremo filed her nomination and campaigned for 2 days, at least 19 Hindu temples and one Muslim shrine have been coated by Banerjee. Essentially, the ‘temple run’ of Mamata Banerjee started with fairly a lot of Hindu shrines being visited. However, the tour led to a catastrophe not only for Banerjee, but additionally for the TMC and its consultancy agency.Apart from visiting Shiv, Kali, Krishna and Durga temples throughout villages, Mamata additionally visited temples of native deities, worshipped by the villagers, which included Janaki Mata, Manasa Mata and Sitala Mata temples. Videos of the Chief Minister performing ‘aarti’ and providing pooja have been live-streamed from Nandigram.As a climax, Mamata Banerjee flashed her ‘Brahmin card’, saying, “I would like to tell him that I belong to a Brahmin family and he should not play the religion card with me. Don’t teach Hindu dharma to me.” She additionally took to reciting the Chandi Paath.Ultimately, Mamata Banerjee’s seemingly non secular tour of Nandigram ended along with her sustaining accidents as a result of a mishap, which she then went on to say was the doing of the BJP, with the TMC going so far as saying that it was an try on Mamata Banerjee’s life. Minus the accident, your entire Nandigram fiasco of Mamata Banerjee appears to be meticulously deliberate out by Prashant Kishor, who has fairly a factor for last-minute temple-hopping and the sudden rekindling of a dharmic drive amongst his shoppers.In reality, this was an lively tactic of many leaders in the course of the meeting elections of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka. Leaders like Akhilesh Yadav and Congress scion Rahul Gandhi have been seen touring temples and Kishor appears to be suggesting Mamata such methods as properly.Read extra: When Chanakya turns into Chandragupta: Prashant Kishor’s latest actions counsel that he has larger ambitionsThere isn’t any denying the actual fact that there’s a huge overcurrent towards Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, and the TMC is dropping floor to the BJP with each passing day because the Hindus of the state start rallying behind the BJP. As such, to not counter the polarisation in favour of the BJP might show disastrous for the TMC. Perhaps it’s for this very cause that Prashant Kishor precipitated Mamata to go on a temple-overdrive in Nandigram.Mind you, the constituency of Nandigram isn’t any joke. It is the citadel of Suvendu Adhikari, who’s being pitted by the BJP towards Mamata Banerjee herself. Keeping the challenges in thoughts, Prashant Kishor has began growing determined methods for the TMC, which he has been making an attempt and experimenting with different elections as properly. However, nearly all the time, last-minute determined methods devised by Prashant Kishor have didn’t bear any fruit for his shoppers.Read extra: The Business is nice – Prashant Kishor doesn’t actually care in regards to the finish outcomes, for him, each challenge is barely about moneyNone of them backfired as spectacularly as in West Bengal, the place Mamata Banerjee, solely because of the goal of fulfilling her temple-hopping problem, needed to undergo tremendously excruciating ache. What is worse is that the technique appears to be yielding no constructive outcomes for the TMC on the bottom. The misrule of the federal government of the previous ten years has been simply too magnanimous for all folks to disregard, all for a couple of allegedly shifting scenes that emerged out of Nandigram on Wednesday night.