Time travel to the days of "Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement". Anna had traveled from Maharashtra to Delhi to organize a people's movement against corruption. He did not have many supporters, since many did not know about him. Some media reports suggested that he was an ex-RSS member. For BJP and Right Wing supporters, it mattered most that he was fighting against Congress-led government. Hence, they lapped up on him. Soon, Anna Hazare's protest-ground started getting filled with scores of supporters and it started appearing as if, all of a sudden, Anna Hazare had become a rage in Delhi. Many Right Wing leaders including Swami Ramdev started sharing the dais too and the "coalition" was complete. Congress was going to be a loser for sure.
Fast forward to 2020. Kangana Ranaut's videos and fake IDs took up Twitter by storm. She did not have many supporters, because her image had been gender and "temper" bound so far. But she (and her sister) started attacking all the "right names". Mahesh Bhatt, Karan Johar, Salman Khan, Anurag Kashyap, Swara Bhaskar, Taapsee Pannu, BJP supporters a.k.a. Right Wing always had problem with these folks. They saw an opportunity and lapped it up. Soon, Kangana Ranaut became an internet storm. Her fake IDs on social media platforms started getting millions of 'followers'. She also started getting interview calls from BJP's 'fan' TV channels like the Republic. The "Left wing" folks at the receiving end of her wrath started feeling the pain. Something big is expected to happen sooner or later.
Now let us switch back to the Anna Hazare moment. What did the BJP gain by supporting him? Anna Hazare movement soon converted into Kejriwal personal fiefdom and the BJP has never been able to regain popularity in Delhi. The BJP was able to remove Congress from the helm of state assembly, but in the form of AAP, a "new Congress" was born. It is imperative to think of "Kangana moment" in a similar light.
The question arises that why do the BJP and Right Wing supporters gets "used" by folks like Anna Hazare / Arvind Kejriwal or Kangana Ranaut / Rangoli Chandel? They can fail to see the plot first time, but how can they repeat the same mistakes again? There is only one reason which explains this: "short term focus".
Since the BJP focused on the "Short term" in case of Anna/Kejriwal, it was outsmarted. The same happened in the case of Maharashtra where the BJP was fooled by a cunning Shivsena. And I bet something similar is going to happen in case of "trolling queens" Kangana/Rangoli too. My guess is that Kangana and Rangoli are using the BJP to either gain something big, like a party ticket for fighting election, or settling scores against their powerful "personal enemies". No matter what the motivation is, it has to be a sinister one since their methods explain their madness.
Only time will tell if the myopic BJP top brass is competent enough to see the plot in Kangana's case and if they shall wake up before it is too late. Looking at the "Twitter trends", it does not look like a quick possibility as of now. Drunk with power at Center, the BJP and Right Wing are behaving like a disillusioned lot. Let us see what happens next.
Poor analysis of ground reality. If your views are mainly based out on twitter trends, its a lazy attempt to come up with a conclusive opinion on the BJP top brass without any source based news to suggest so. Reality is - no one gives a flying fig for Kangana and anyone with any semblance of intelligence can say she is milking an unfortunate death to the hilt. Non twitterfolk have moved on after SSRs tragic untimely death and are refocusing on bread and butter issues. BJP rightly has kept away from this issue barring a rogue agent Subramanian Swamy who is out to extract his own pound of flesh from Bollywood.
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