With film personalities, economists, food technologists and others weighing in on the adulteration matter, the laddoo has arrived. But how we got here is best explained by the convergence of Hindu nationalists and Hindu conservatives on it.
For a party that has defeating the opposition at any cost as its primary goal, any slip is a loss. A victory, but with lower numbers or without crushing the opposition, will be read as a deficit.
The TRS government offered a basket of welfare programmes and populist schemes and mixed it with identity politics to outsmart its rivals in Telangana.
For TDP, caught between a BJP keen to expand in Andhra Pradesh and the YSR Congress emerging as a rival, leaving the NDA may have seemed the only option.
