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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The BJP’s widening social base -Vikas Pathak

The BJP’s widening social base -Vikas Pathak

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published Published on Sep 24, 2020   modified Modified on Sep 24, 2020

-The Hindu

Securing largely upper caste-OBC alliances has propelled the BJP to great heights and has also impacted Dalit politics

Political alignments in Bihar for the forthcoming elections offer a peek into the various ways the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constructs its electoral building blocks. Taking into consideration the specificities of each State, the NDA has been able to secure the votes of the upper castes as well as large sections of non-Yadav Other Backward Classes (OBCs), especially in large parts of north and central India. And due to its successes, prominent Dalit leaders are either aligning with it or going soft on it.

Models in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

In Bihar, the Hindutva discourse is still not sufficient for the BJP to win votes, unlike in, say, Uttar Pradesh. If alliance-building in Bihar fails, the BJP also fails. This was seen in 2015 when Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal (United) and Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) joined hands and defeated the BJP. The BJP’s model in Bihar is to build a strong alliance, where it is able to secure the support of many upper castes, Mr. Kumar is able to mobilise the Kurmis and other non-Yadav OBCs, and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, a significant section of Dalits (the Dusadhs). In 2015, a coalition of the JD(U), the RJD and other parties successfully defeated the BJP. This time is different as the JD(U) walked out of that coalition in 2017.

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The Hindu, 24 September, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-bjps-widening-social-base/article32679757.ece?homepage=true


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