Pulwama did not help Modi, Balakot airstrikes did.
Bombing Ram Mandir will dent the strongman-image of Modi + Doval. Strongman image is one of the fundamental selling point of BJP, same for other types of attacks.
Assasination attempts are risky but up for the game when leader(s) become too strong & challenging (Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, S.C. Bose etc., more recently, Imran Khan of Pakistan). I guess Khalistanis will have an open alibi now that US & Canada has successfully manufatured & implicated us in the lie of assasination plot of Khalistani leaders.
Nobody cares if US is close of Pakistan, they can have gay orgies all they want. US + Pakistan colluding to harm India is a different thing. We don't collude with Russia to harm US national interest.
Of course US colluding with Pakistan to harm India in the times to come is against India, and deserves a reposite.. But, there are a lot of Indians, who beat their breasts whenever US sells weapons to Pakistan and threaten katti with US..when US has been a weapons supplier to Pakistan for 70 years.. India started getting closer to US post Soviet Collapse for its own ends, and there was no promise that US will reduce military supplies to Pakistan.
Given the surgical strikes and the publicity by Modi Government.. it was a given that there would have been a reply after Pulwama attack, with or without elections.. Elections preponed the first punch, and the knockout punch came in August 2019 with the removal of Article 370. Pakistan has still not recovered from it.. Bombing Ram mandir by Pak sponsored terrorists will definitely ignite the LOC, and Hindus will rally behind Modi, and demand Muslim blood on the same scale of Palestinian blood demanded by Israelis after October 7.. Apart from instant gratification I don't know how that helps Pakistan which is already being a** raped on the Afghan border. But given its retarded over confident Pakistan we are talking about, they will definitely give bombing Ram Mandir a shot.
The entire western military industrial complex+South Korea is falling behind seriously when it comes to ammunition production for the ground forces in Ukraine.. Russia+North Korea+Iran+Chinese dual use components [without much direct Chinese ammunition supply ] are acing it when it comes to mass production of ammunition and cheap drones..
Next year is going to be brutal for Ukraine..
and US is in panic... Pakistan is a reliable supplier of artillery shells and rockets and US dependence on Pakistan will only increase in the coming years, as the Ukraine war drags on for years, as Putin has made it clear he won't be satisfied until the demilitarization of Ukraine..
This will also mean a more diplomatically pro Pakistan US.. And India will have to live with it..