Ramaswami: The BJP seems to be interested in creating alternative social networks that link voting and welfare. Even now, government welfare policies are linked to the party. In much of the north, those availing any of the welfare policies of the BJP – be it toilets under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or gas cylinders under the Ujjwala programme – are ‘expected’ (to put it politely) to hoist a saffron flag and call at least ten others in the village or qasba to let them know about the welfare programme in order to recruit more and more people.