evidence: Bengaluru, India – Growing up, Muskan Khan imagined college life to be full of new adventures. [...] "The BJP has strategically targeted religious minorities, especially Muslims, through a series of incidents and laws in Karnataka. This is in line with the saffron party’s agenda of making India a Hindu Rashtra [nation]. It is also electorally beneficial for them, as we have seen," Mansoor Ali Khan, general secretary of the opposition Congress party, told Al Jazeera. [...] "Compared to past elections, communal polarisation is more visible in Karnataka now," political analyst Sandeep Shastri told Al Jazeera.