Narendra Modi deliberately combines Hindu rituals in his public persona for the political purpose of appealing to the Hindu masses.
Opposition parties have objected to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to meditate at Dhyan Mandapam at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, and have approached the Election Commission of India to ban any telecast of it. Since the meditation will last from the evening of May 30 when campaigning has to stop, to the evening of June 1 when polling ends, the Opposition has alleged that any publicity of the event would amount to indirect campaigning.
In 2019, Modi undertook a well-publicised 15-hour-long meditation in an isolated cave near the Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand, before the last phase of polling for the general elections. He had followed up this spiritual sojourn with a tweet urging the electorate to vote in large numbers on the last day of polling. At the time the Opposition did not recognise the photo-ops at Kedarnath, and Modi’s subsequent tweet, as campaigning while the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) was in force.
In retrospect, the Opposition is wiser….
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/significance-of-modis-meditation-at-kanyakumari-3046069
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The idea of Ram and the idea of India
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