The right of Indian homosexuals to have sex without being jailed for it is so far removed from the ordinary conversations of Indian politics '" corruption, economic modernization, communalism, pandering to 'vote-banks', etc '" that Rajnath Singh can be forgiven for seeing the controversy as a bout of extra-terrestrial angst that resonates mainly with a handful of queers and their deracinated desi fellow-travellers. 

The division bench's references to homosexuals as a miniscule minority (so small that Justice Singhvi declared he had never met a gay person) must have given the Bharatiya Janata Party's president heart: at last, a minority so small that it could be coshed without consequences, bashed without blowback.