BJP’s Ayodhya Headache: 15,000 Sadhus Trapped in Voter Roll Purge Over ‘Sita-Kaushalya’ as Mother and ‘Guru’ as Father – While Assam Labels Outsiders ‘Infiltrators’
In a bizarre twist to India’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing an unexpected backlash in the holy city of Ayodhya and other temple towns in Uttar Pradesh. Around 15,000 sadhus and sants (ascetics and saints) have found themselves entangled in the voter verification process, potentially…