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I can make or break govt: Sakshi Maharaj
In an ashram near the Ganga in Uttarakhand, BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj mimes rowing a boat to illustrate what will happen if Prime Minister Narendra Modi\'s government ignores Hindu nationalist demands. “Modi will have to be a boatman: one oar must focus on the economy and the other must concentrate on the Hindu agenda,” says Maharaj, the four-time MP of the saffron party.
Rishikesh: In an ashram near the Ganga in Uttarakhand, BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj mimes rowing a boat to illustrate what will happen if Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ignores Hindu nationalist demands. “Modi will have to be a boatman: one oar must focus on the economy and the other must concentrate on the Hindu agenda,” says Maharaj, the four-time MP of the saffron party.
He twirls his bejewelled fingers in the air, explaining that otherwise the boat will spin in circles. The priest-turned politician, who has been charged with rioting and inciting communal violence, is held up by opponents as evidence of hardline religious elements in the ruling BJP whose behaviour is threatening the government's economic reform agenda.
Maharaj has recently created uproar by describing Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as a patriot and saying Hindu women should give birth to four children to ensure the religion survives. The BJP issued him a notice last month asking him to explain those remarks. Even Maharaj wants to make it illegal for the Hindus to change religion and seeks the death penalty for slaughtering cows. “I am aware that I am a powerful man,” Maharaj says, adding: “I can make or break the government.”
