By Kavita Mistry 
New Delhi: The BJP Friday used Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s words, including “yachna nahi ab rann hoga, jeevan jay ya ki maran hoga”, in a social media post that also carried a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an air force pilot’s G-suit, in a pointed message likely aimed at Pakistan.
The words loosely translate to “no more pleading, now there will be war, it will be either victory or death”.
Early on Wednesday, India, in a bid to avenge the 25 April killing of tourists in Pahalgam, launched Operation Sindoor to strike terror hubs in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. Tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations have only increased since then.
On Friday, BJP’s post on ‘X’ carried a picture attachment, with Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s words, Modi’s cutout, and another cutout of an air force jet. The caption repeated: “Yaachana nahi ab rann hoga #OperationSindoor.”
Several BJP leaders on the platform have reposted it.
याचना नहीं, अब रण होगा… #OperationSindoor pic.twitter.com/7I3Y1GpQCc
— BJP (@BJP4India) May 9, 2025
The lines are from Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s poem, ‘Krishna ki Chetavani (Krishna’s Warning)’. The cutout of Modi on the post came from when the PM completed a 30-minute sortie on a twin-seat variant of the Tejas light combat aircraft in November 2023.
As the BJP post shows, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s poem starts with, “Hit-vachan nahin tune maana, maitri ka mulya na pehchana, to le, main bhee ab jaata hoon, antim sankalp sunata hoon”. These lines loosely translate to “You did not listen to my kind words of advice, you did not recognise the value of friendship, so I am leaving now, I am telling you my last decision”.
The poem tells a story from the epic Mahabharata. Krishna, in the story, tries to mediate peace between the Pandavas and the Kauravas before an epic war between the two. The poem’s lines are a transition from trying to make peace to deciding to wage war. In the end, Krishna announces that if peace is rejected, war will ensue.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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