In October 2020, during the Bihar assembly election, Chirag Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Party described himself as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hanuman. “The prime minister lives in my heart….I am like his Hanuman,” he said, as the Deccan Herald reported.
In the Ramayana, Hanuman is the devoted servant of Rama. The BJP’s answer was less warm. It called him a vote katua, a vote cutter, the Deccan Herald reported.