Jana Sena ==> Hindutva Sena

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Guevara to Golwalkar: Pawan Kalyan’s one-man party has left him wide open to Hindutva

 

A couple of years ago, 2018-19 to be precise, he was going around uttering leftist dialogues, invoking names of rights activists like K Balagopal, aligning with the Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). His election campaign was suffused with red and blue iconography, with a special place for the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. His fans, too, would sprout terms like guerrilla. Their vehicles were adorned with pictures of Guevara, who was also a presence in at least one of the movies this leader acted in in the past.

Cut to 2024. The same leader, again vociferously supported by his fans, this time aided by the vituperative social media, is seen pushing the Hindus-are-in-danger narrative and seen sweeping the steps of a temple in Andhra Pradesh, infused with saffron and ochre colours.

While ideological flip-flops are neither rare nor need to be met with disapproval, the transformation of actor-turned-still acting-Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh provides many stark lessons: establishing a party without a strong ideological foundation, running a party without a structured cadre or leadership beyond the top, catering more to fans than to the people, and the allure of Hindutva for individuals with such fluid political identities.

If anyone is still unclear about the description, the person being talked about here is Konidela Pawan Kalyan, the chief of the Jana Sena Party (JSP), the Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, as well as the state's Environment, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister.

While Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu fired the first salvo by airing these allegations, it was Pawan Kalyan who took it to a whole new level, voicing the Hindutva's pet peeve of removing temples from the government's control and the associated assortment of demands regularly voiced by these sections. He even announced an eleven-day penance to purify himself and the temple.

His politics has always been directionless – ideologically or organisationally – to put it mildly. Despite running a party for a decade, one will be hard-pressed to find either leaders or cadre. The only leader is Pawan Kalyan, and the only cadre are his fans, notwithstanding the Kapu caste rallying behind his party in the recent elections. Polemically agitational politics, while retaining the righteous angry young man persona is the only praxis he appears to believe in. However, such directionless fluidity is also what makes one vulnerable to all-encompassing Hindutva.

A political party, of whatever hue, has an organisational structure and cadre base that play the role of checks and balances against the individual leader's proclivities and extreme flip-flops. The lack of it in JSP helps him, and by extension Hindutva, to drive the party in whichever direction they would like to, with little to no scrutiny and feedback.

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Pushpams playing games 

One side supporting jaggad 

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6 minutes ago, futureofandhra said:

Pushpams playing games 

One side supporting jaggad 

Babu thatha gaarini funds adakkunda for salaries and super6  control cheyyataniki vesina sketch anta kadha anna idhi. National level lo book chesaru kadha anna. 

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10 minutes ago, andhra_jp said:

Sanatan(Sainath + Salman + Solman)

Amar Akbar Anthony tarvata next best all mix fruit juice maa pavala ae…

Papam, Babori 100 days function kosam addanga bali ayindu.