He became the poster boy of Hindutva ahead of the general election, but Varun Gandhi appears to have fallen from grace. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has found no use for him even as the election campaign in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh is peaking.
Varun Gandhi is missing from the list of star campaigners of the party, said a source. The decision to drop him has been prompted by sobering introspection following the humiliating drubbing the BJP got in the April-May Lok Sabha polls.
His anti-Muslim hate speeches, the party’s top bosses realised, were one of the reasons for the defeat of the party. Varun Gandhi may have won the Pilibhit seat from Uttar Pradesh, but he has evidently lost more than meets the eye.
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