Adityanath as UP CM: Democracy Corroded, Writes Pratap Bhanu Mehta

By making a Hindutva icon UP CM, the BJP has signalled it wants to marginalise the minorities further, writes Mehta.

In a column for The Indian Express, political commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes that the appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is unnerving – and a threat to democracy.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) perceiving Adityanath as the "popular choice” for the CM’s post points to a “contest between fundamentalism and democratic misanthropy, both destructive of the idea of democracy”, Mehta writes, adding that the party now believes it can get away with anything,