https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jat_Aryan_Foundation#World_Jat_Congress_(2003)

Thats the lesson for all of us

“Fadanvis could be categorized as a liberal Hindutvavadi like Gadkari,”

TBH Considering how misogynist our politics is, his public support for his wife to have an active career , would put some of the ‘liberal’ Congress folks to shame .

Debroy i think is just a non left guy. And since back in the day, everyone not on the left used to be bunch together so he just became liberal conservative (?)

Liberal conservative is different from a classical liberal is different from a left liberal. Vajpayee and Rajaji were liberal conservatives. Dadabhai Naoroji, Minoo Masani and Raghuram Rajan were/are classical liberals. Nehru and Shashi Tharoor are left liberals.
All of the above are similar (“liberal”) in the sense that they share a respect for British-style parliamentary liberal democracy. However, it is only the first category who want a role for “Indic” values in the public sphere. The first and second categories are generally pro free market, which distinguishes them from the left-liberals (aka Nehruvians in the Indian context).

Also who is Ajay Shah?

I think Bibek Debroy would qualify, although he isn’t a politician and I was more focused on politicians. Amongst public figures, someone like Hindol Sengupta is also quite interesting. As regards Fadnavis, being part of the RSS is not necessarily a disqualification. Vajpayee was in the RSS. I think temperamentally Fadnavis probably has the potential to be a Liberal Conservative, but not sure if he has enough intellectual conviction. Gadkari and Rajnath are two others who fall in a similar bucket. Interestingly both are holdouts from the Vajpayee era. I’m not sure where someone like S. Jaishankar would fall. I still see him as a bureaucrat rather than a politician, so don’t consider him relevant for this sort of analysis.

Not personally bothered by the “sprouting of extra arms like a Hindu deity” and pic accompanying the article. But I am bothered by hypocrisy. One would not be able to so easily get away with mockingly using religion to demean a head of state of abrahamic faith.

More generally, it seems to me that NDA-I had the highest concentration of highly gifted people aside from the 1991 cabinet under Narasimha Rao. Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha and of course Ajay Shah. These were cosmopolitan yet moderate liberals who essentially had a ‘secular right’ world view. I wonder if we’d ever get such a cabinet in India ever again.

I, for one, am not mourning their loss of influence. If they were successful, you’d get a neoliberal, highly westernised India with just the outside trappings of Indic civilisation but an empty core.

Maybe on the intellectual side, Bibek Debroy would be a liberal-conservative?