Modi's blend of Hindutva and development draws in estranged core voters in UP

Anil Kumar Mishra lost faith in the saffron brigade when Atal Bihari Vajpayee government failed to keep its word. A former member of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), the 44-year-old who hails from Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, was among the several who believed that the Vajpayee led BJP government would act on its three core electoral promises: construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya; abrogation of Article 370 that grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and the enforcement of a uniform civil code, which administers the same set of laws to govern people irrespective of their religion, caste and tribe.

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