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Delhi Confidential: Solid support

The PM has repeatedly asked party leaders to woo the Christians in Kerala as a Christian-Hindu consolidation would only help the BJP emerge as an alternative in the state

Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Not all in Kerala BJP were happy about the party leadership’s intervention in the matter of two Kerala nuns arrested in Chhattisgarh on charges of human trafficking and forced religious conversion, but state BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar was unperturbed as his move was supported by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, it is learnt. According to party insiders, when Chandrasekhar met PM Modi last week, the latter was very supportive of his request. Many say it was Modi’s intervention that silenced any resistance within the party in Kerala as well as Chhattisgarh. The PM has repeatedly asked party leaders to woo the Christians in Kerala as a Christian-Hindu consolidation would only help the BJP emerge as an alternative in the state.

Post From Past

THE ARMY’S Eastern Command on Tuesday shared a news clip on X from August 5, 1971 that highlighted the role of the United States nearly 20 years prior to the 1971 war in arming Pakistan. The headline of the article read: ‘US Arms Worth $2 Billion Shipped to Pakistan Since ’54’. The post, shared at a time when the US is threatening India with steeper tariffs over Russian oil trade and Delhi calling it “unjustified and unreasonable targeting”, has raised many eyebrows but military insiders maintain it’s a “sheer coincidence” and not related to the current impasse.

Sweet Start

THE INAUGURAL day events of the new Common Central Secretariat building, Kartavya Bhawan, on Wednesday is likely to end on a sweet note for those attending the evening event. It is learnt that the thousands of government officials and other guests who are expected to attend the programme on Kartavya Path will be given ‘motichoor laddoos’. The inauguration marks the completion of the first of the 10 new office buildings proposed under the Central Vista plan.