‘Mathura Kashi Baaki Hai’ Slogan Enters BJP Lexicon Ahead of UP Polls With Yogi’s Call For Development
News 18Yeh To Kewal Jhaanki Hai, Mathura Kashi Baaki Hai – this old war cry of the right-wing school of politics was never owned up officially by the BJP. The Uttar Pradesh CM’s reference to the ‘Ayodhya-Mathura-Kashi’ phrase was preceded by Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya this month when he said a grand temple construction was ongoing in Ayodhya and Kashi and “now the preparation was on for Mathura”. Mathura’s BJP MP Hema Malini has earlier this month too asked the PM for the development of the Mathura Krishnabhoomi temple on lines of the Kashi temple. A senior BJP leader in the state said that the Ayodhya-Kashi-Mathura lexicon was being approached from the ‘development angle’ by the party in these elections as these are the three holy sites of Hindus and revered for the three Gods, Ram, Shiv and Krishna.