The oddity is that Mr Advani had always been seen as a Hindutva hardliner.

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It is not that Hindus reject Hindutva, the notion that India is defined by its Hindu way of life.

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BJP's identification with hardline Hindutva, it is argued, cost votes.

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Three years later, a coalition government of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which had also put Hindutva on its central agenda, came into power in Maharashtra to rule for the next five years.

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