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Snapshot of the day

July 17, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

In 2023 — at the only press conference he took part in as PM — Narendra Modi was asked why his government discriminated against Muslims. He denied the charge and invoked the slogan, ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’, as proof that he believes in carrying everyone along regardless of religion. Well, a top BJP leader in Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, now says he’s had had enough of this slogan. “We will save the Hindus and we will save the Constitution. I spoke about ‘nationalist’ Muslims and you all said ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. But I shall say it no more. Rather we shall now say, ‘Jo hamare saath,