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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Scholar bats for inclusive democracy -Dev Raj

Scholar bats for inclusive democracy -Dev Raj

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published Published on Mar 26, 2017   modified Modified on Mar 26, 2017
-The Telegraph

Bihar: The rise of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister has a strong implication on political inclusion of subaltern or deprived castes, as he is vocal about his backward lineage, often highlighting it at public meetings.

Highlighting the phenomenon of Narendra Modi in Indian politics, Kanchan Chandra, professor of politics at New York University, said: "An inclusive democracy is desirable in itself since it sends out a signal of empowerment and representation of the marginalised in the polity."

Kanchan was delivering her lecture on the second day of the international conference on "Bihar and Jharkhand: Shared History to Shared Vision", organised by Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) to mark the conclusion of its yearlong silver jubilee celebrations. Siddhartha Varadarajan, founding editor of The Wire, chaired the session.

Three lectures and six technical sessions were held on Day II of the five-day conference that President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated on Friday. The conference will continue till March 28. Citing the decimation of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the recent Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, she said it would have significant implications for the party as well as the nation in terms of subaltern politics. "Here, the malady lies in the fact that the process of subaltern-isation is limited to outward manifestation through legislation and there is no serious move to bring subaltern groups to prominent positions inside a party," she said.

"The BSP and also the Samajwadi Party (SP) - two powerful regional parties which are supposed to be led by the so-called deprived castes - have failed to build a second line of leadership beyond BSP chief Mayawati and SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav and his close relatives," Kanchan said.

To prove her point, she argued that the belief that the Indian polity has moved towards subalternisation was over-hyped. Data on the composition of the Parliament in 2014 showed that 70 per cent of backward caste MPs, 83 per cent of Scheduled Caste, 92 per cent of Scheduled Tribe and 50 per cent of Muslim MPs were from parties dominated by upper caste leaders. The Congress and the BJP were partners in this phenomenon.

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The Telegraph, 26 March, 2017, https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170326/jsp/bihar/story_142704.jsp#.WNd6N7ideyA


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