UP CM #YogiAdityanath’s appointment and decisions have trapped Oppn and liberals
On the day Yogi Adityanath was appointed BJP chief ministerial candidate, a close friend – who is a young successful Lucknow businessman and often my sounding board to gauge the mood of both the urban young voter as well as the business community – sent me a text message: “I feel cheated as a BJP voter. It is sad, sad day for UP.”
Three days later, over a conversation, he said that his anger had dissipated a bit. “The margin of error for BJP has gone down with this appointment. Yogi cannot afford to make a mistake. Let’s see.”
And by the end of the week, as we met during a trip he made to Delhi, he had a somewhat different approach.
“What is the media doing?”, he questioned with a touch of irritation. “Give him a chance. This criticism even before he has got down to serious work is unfair.”
Even as the criticism over Yogi’s appointment and his decisions had increased, particularly among Delhi’s opinion makers and media, the sense on the ground seems to have moved into the reverse direction.
How has this happened? And what does it tell us about the great liberal dilemma on the Yogi question? There are three ways in which the Yogi appointment has trapped the opposition.
The appointment trap
