Amit Shah’s veiled hint about delayed polls?

Faux pas committed by top political leaders cause a lot of confusion among people in general and party leaders and cadres in particular. Sometimes, it could be a Freudian slip, giving an indicator of future decisions. There were at least two such instances when Union home minister Amit Shah addressed the Nirmal meeting on September 17. Shah said the BJP would win the elections and come to power in the 2024 elections in Telangana and the party would win all the 17 Lok Sabha seats in the general elections. This statement went viral on social media and people started interpreting it differently, and the date —

2024 elections — became a subject for serious discussion among political and journalist circles. The Telangana Assembly elections are scheduled for

2023. Was it a slip of tongue? Was he dropping a hint that one-nation-oneelection would be implemented, and the state and general elections would be held in 2024? And then there was another, when he mentioned a ‘Bandi Sanjay Kumar government’. Shape of things to come? Watch this space.