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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | A realpolitik appraisal of the ‘Mandal-Kamandal’ fight in UP -Roshan Kishore

A realpolitik appraisal of the ‘Mandal-Kamandal’ fight in UP -Roshan Kishore

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published Published on Jan 18, 2022   modified Modified on Jan 18, 2022

-Hindustan Times

The BJP, on the other hand, has always claimed that Mandal-based parties such as the SP have only helped their own causes (for instance, the Yadavs in both Bihar and UP) in the name of social emancipation after capturing power.

The Uttar Pradesh elections seem to be resurrecting the past memories of Mandal versus Kamandal contest only at the level of polemics. After chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yogi Adityanath’s claim of the polls being an 80% versus 20% (read Hindu versus Muslim) contest, Yogi’s former cabinet colleague Swami Prasad Maurya, who deserted the BJP to join the Samajwadi party (SP), claimed the election was actually a fight between 85% versus 15% (read non-upper caste Hindus and Muslims versus upper castes). The Mandal-Kamandal binary and its various mutations have defined politics in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for three decades now.

The underlying logic, at least at the level of rhetoric, is simple. The votaries of Mandal claim that due to India’s feudal past, upper castes have historically exploited the other backward classes (OBCs), scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs) and the majority of Muslims in India, and the only way to undo this injustice was to capture political power, a project eminently possible thanks to India’s universal franchise system. OBCs, SCs, STs and Muslims together vastly outnumber upper-caste Hindus.

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Hindustan Times, 18 January, 2022, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/a-realpolitik-appraisal-of-the-mandal-kamandal-fight-in-up-101642441120244.html


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