Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh elections, the government on Friday decided to hold a world Ramayana conclave in Ayodhya in December, 2016.
Twelve countries are expected to participate and the government is calling this a non-political event.
Given the communal fault lines, which is already deepening in the state and the fact that it is likely to favour the BJP and Samajwadi party in the upcoming elections, one can assume that the timing of the event is deliberate.
UP will witness a multi-cornered election with the ruling Samajwadi Party, BJP, Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress locked in a fierce contest.
BJP had won a whopping 71 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 polls, propelling the party to attain a majority in the House on its own for the first time.
The party had won just 47 seats in the 2012 assembly polls. BJP's vote share was 42 per cent in the last Lok Sabha polls as against 15 per cent in the assembly polls in 2012.
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