Ramaswami: The fact is that it is the BJP’s nature to polarise, even if its communal poison causes a PR disaster for India. For Modi and Shah, a US presidential visit is a one-off event but politics, electioneering and vote-bank building are a continuous, never-ending process. The BJP fought the recent Delhi assembly election on a hard communal platform. They ran advertisements that were openly communal and BJP politicians freely circulated anti-Muslim memes and images on social media. The one consistent message from these images and words was that Muslims are traitors, traitors need to be shot. Unfortunately for the BJP, Delhi’s electorate did not succumb to this hate campaign, and though the saffron party’s vote share improved by a few percentage points it was still convincingly trounced by the Aam Aadmi Party.