Scratch the surface beyond the optics of the protests and you will see a visible political hand that has stirred the emotional pot. The face-off has brought together the BJP and the Congress on the same platform over Sabarimala.
The mover of the no-confidence motion against the NDA government is the Telugu Desam Party. Chandrababu Naidu's grouse is that the Centre did not keep its promise to accord special category status to Andhra Pradesh. But it is not just the BJP that Naidu seeks to target.
The I-T raids come within days of AIADMK making it clear that while it does not oppose simultaneous elections, it does not favour Tamil Nadu going into elections in April 2019
Criticism of Lord Rama has landed Telugu film critic and filmmaker Mahesh Kathi with a police order to go into `exile'