Parties other than Bhartiya Janta Party should exercise restraint speaking on the consecration of Ram Temple on 22nd January. Rest, they might fall in the trap of Bhartiya Janta Party consolidating and mobilizing the majority in its favour this is what PM Narendra Modi is repeatedly hinting at in his rhetoric calling and shaming those opposing the whole idea and conception of lord Ram.
Opposition parties are very much under their right to deny the formal invitation extended to them but at the same hour they need to be a little wise with their posturing and stance which otherwise could be counter productive for their political and electoral maths, calculations, possibilities and prospects should they be refraining from acknowledging it at the first instance.
Though, religion should be kept at a bay from politics but for the kind of atmosphere and environment we are privy to both religion and politics stands interwined with an era of religious identatarian politics that has become a very much a reality not in India but across the globe. Right wing has been the greatest beneficiary capitalising on it with progressive liberal forces still hunting for the language and grammar with which they can re establish their bonds and exchange with the average and common electorate.
Mitigating the fault lines appears a mammoth task for centre liberal and progressive political outfits who are yet to reinvent and reorient themselves for emerging as an viable alternative especially at a time when our moral and ethical values, views, codes of conduct everything has undergone a tremendous shift in the last one decade hard to neglect by any stretch of imagination