Assam Assembly elections | Congress weaves anti-CAA, NRC campaign into monastic Bhaona
The Hindu
More than five centuries after saint-reformer, Srimanta Sankaradeva created Bhaona, a dramatic form of entertainment to convey spiritualism in the Vaishnav mould, the Congress in poll-bound Assam has tweaked it for a political statement against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).
On Monday, the party released its first “video advertisement” to bombard viewers with a message against the “anti-people” CAA and “discriminatory” NRC. The Congress claimed that the video, aired across social media platforms, has been trending with more than one million views within hours of being released. The political Bhaona uses music and the Brajavali language that Sankaradeva developed, and his disciples popularised from the Vaishnav monasteries.More Related News