According to Osho, religion and politics are opposite dimensions: politics is the will-to-power—ego seeking to dominate—while religion is egolessness, a let-go beyond even will-to-be. Hence a truly religious person cannot be interested in politics, and a politician, remaining political, cannot taste the religious unknown. Real change arises from hope and surrender to existence, not from striving to control.
Religion is about letting go of control; politics is about grabbing control—so you can’t do both at once.