Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray did not come out with all-guns-blazing against Modi and the Modi government, but his lieutenants weren’t sitting idle. Modi and Uddhav had traded glances the evening before at Lata Mangeshkar’s funeral in Mumbai. Now, #Maharashtradrohi is trending along with #boycottModi and #Kejriwal.Modi hadn’t thought of the dam of outrage waiting to break. Ironically, by attempting to foist the migrant exodus crisis on Maharashtra, Modi unwittingly opened the sluice gates to a barrage of anti-Modi sentiments which had lain dormant for months.Suddenly, old memories blotted the storyline with old news stories of migrant worker deaths and rivers flowing sluggishly with the bodies afloat on them.There is this feeling that Modi will live to regret both the migrant exodus and the COVID-19 deaths—the shallow graves Ganga kinare with their saffron markers.For the Opposition parties and the starved media, there couldn’t be more gravy to keep the train moving. The BJP and Narendra Modi would feel the effect post the five state elections, on March 10, when the results are declared.Perhaps, that is the reason why Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath trained guns on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Modi’s allegations against the Congress are hard to prove, after also having named Kejriwal as the architect of the migrant exodus from Delhi. Yogi doubled down on Modi’s anti-Kejriwal rant and Twitter rode on them to an almighty crescendo.
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