BJP invokes Tagore in its manifesto

The BJP,eager to prove that it has extraordinary nationalistic credentials,has invoked the great poet Rabindranath Tagore's vision of a free India in its election manifesto.

The BJP,eager to prove that it has extraordinary nationalistic credentials,has invoked the great poet Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of a free India in its election manifesto but with a conspicuous typing error.

The saffron party’s manifesto,released on Friday,has cited Tagore’s poem to suggest that its ideology was in tune with poet’s vision of the nation where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.

Interestingly,the poem has a typing error where the word walls has been replaced by wars. The line in the manifesto reads: Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic wars.

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The back cover of the manifesto has this poem with the heading,The BJP,in the words of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore,stands for a nation….

BJP has made internal security one of its major poll planks and has often accused the Congress-led UPA government of soft-pedalling terrorism for minority appeasement and vote-bank politics.

The appropriation of this poem by Tagore at this juncture is an apparent attempt to convince the electorate to free itself from UPA government’s misrule.

This phrase is followed by some lines of the poem,penned by Tagore before the country’s independence,representing the poet’s dream of how the new awakened India should be.

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