<b>Letters</b>: Stick to development

The selection of Yogi Adityanath as CM has been triggered by Hindutva and not development

With reference to “Yogi’s new posture” (March 20), the coronation of Yogi Adityanath as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is supposed to strengthen the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Hindutva establishment in deference to social and communal equations that have enabled it to reap a bumper harvest in the UP polls. The CM, belonging to the Thakur community, is flanked by two deputies — one a Brahmin (Dinesh Sharma) and the other an OBC (Keshav Prasad Maurya) to keep the existing vote bank equations intact. In spite of Narendra Modi’s gung-ho election rhetoric in favour of development, he tactfully fanned communal