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published Published on Mar 19, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 22, 2022

-The Telegraph

Mandal politics must be revamped, not renounced

Is Mandal politics on its deathbed? This is the question that many analysts have asked after the Bharatiya Janata Party routed the Samajwadi Party in the recent Uttar Pradesh elections. It was the fourth consecutive electoral drubbing for the SP at the hands of the BJP in the Narendra Modi era.

Mandal politics cannot defeat the BJP, and the SP needs to finally move beyond it, some astute and eminent commentators of Indian politics have suggested in the past few days. Characterizing Mandal politics as “falling stock”, the journalist, Vandita Mishra, wrote that “Mandal politics is now seen, in large sections of even its homeground, UP, as casteist and divisive.” In another piece titled “It’s curtains for Mandal politics now”, the columnist, Roshan Kishore, argued that since Mandal politics cannot create an inclusive civil society or advance a class-based agenda, it is “doomed to fail” against the BJP. The political philosopher, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, put down the failure of parties such as the SP to relying excessively on “social arithmetic” rather than a “generative conception of politics”. “The project of now opposing any national party on the basis of a coalition of fragmented identities is dead,” wrote Mehta.

Yet, in the view of this author, the Mandal platform is still the most potent force against Hindutva in the heartland states of UP and Bihar. The time calls for a revamping of Mandal, not its renouncement.

Two pieces of preliminary evidence might be furnished to caution against sweeping pronouncements on the efficacy of Mandal politics as a counter-narrative to Hindutva.

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The Telegraph, 19 March, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/durable-formula-mandal-politics-must-be-revamped-not-renounced/cid/1856580?fbclid=IwAR3vuOawM46ASPTc2gvioXKxFZcLqg61UqMMR7gqWQPybLenv2D1VPeybZY


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