> More recently, Narendra Modi, the city’s elected member of the Indian parliament and the country’s current prime minister, demolished ancient temples and alleys in order to plant his insecurely grand and ultra-modern monuments of Hindu supremacism.
This is false. The real story is well known that the temples were recovered from the buildings demolished to create access to Kashi Vishwanath temple. These buildings were encroachments. The opposition leaders decided to use it as an opportunity to attack Modi. The tragedy is that Indian leftists will cite any nonsense as long as it supports their anti-BJP, anti-Modi narrative. Here is the news:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/demolition...
Looks like the author didn't get the memo that Varanasi (and India) has rejected this outdated poverty-porn view and chose to embrace progress like China and rest of the modern world.
India has drastically reduced the number of people living in extreme poverty to 15MM (from 124MM) since 2016. This is why they keep voting in the "Hindu Nationalist" BJP in record numbers.
This is false. The real story is well known that the temples were recovered from the buildings demolished to create access to Kashi Vishwanath temple. These buildings were encroachments. The opposition leaders decided to use it as an opportunity to attack Modi. The tragedy is that Indian leftists will cite any nonsense as long as it supports their anti-BJP, anti-Modi narrative. Here is the news: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/demolition...