Unfortunately unlike MAGA (pronounced "magga"), "MPGA" does not work very well as an acronym. But that won't stop the SRM. Per Wikipedia, the slogan was actually first used by Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign, as "Let's make America great again".
Along with "Patria First" patriotic jingoism, "take back the economy" protectionism and tariff barriers, and the "bring the jobs home" fight against offshoring and de-industrialization, the SRM also see themselves as the guardians of Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma in much the same way as Republicans see themselves on the front lines of evangelical Christianity. Other parties such as Amrita and Chakra make use Hindu symbols and iconography to some extent, but virtually every SRM campaign poster features Krishna, Rama, Hanuman, Devi or a Hindu deity of some kind.
The chief opponents to the upcoming Amrita-Social Democrat coalition (that hasn't happened and likely won't happen until after Election Day, but everyone in Patria knows Amma and Bernie Sanders are about to join forces), SRM actually stands for "Swadeshi Ramrajya Movement". Swadeshi refers to self-sufficiency or the "make it in India" campaign originally conceived by Gandhi, while Ramrajya is of course the Sanskrit name for Patria. Back in the day when the party was first established amid the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s, SRM stood for "Spiritual Regeneration Movement" and borrowed the name from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation organization. Just as in the US, where virtually no one will be able to tell you what the broadcasting monoliths CBS, NBC and ABC actually stand for, in Patria no one ever refers to the SRM by anything other than the initials.
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