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Why BJP is here to stay -Aunindyo Chakravarty

-The Tribune

Consolidation of non-dominant OBCs and Dalits the primary reason

Prashant ‘PK’ KISHOR has upset his greatest supporters, India’s English-speaking liberals, by saying that the BJP is going to be the ‘centre of Indian polity’ for decades to come, and that one should not ‘ever get into the trap that people are getting angry and they will throw away Modi.’ This, to many anti-Modi voices, is the unkindest cut of all, because they were hoping that India’s best-known mercenary electoral-strategist was going to work some magic to oust PM Modi in 2024.

The alliance between economically dominant mercantile castes and the ‘Sanskritised’ non-dominant OBCs and Dalits holds the key to BJP’s hegemonic presence.

The question is, what has made the BJP the ‘Party of Rule’, which dominates political discourse even when it loses (such as in West Bengal, for instance)? There are two key reasons for this; the change in the composition of India’s ruling elite and the consolidation of non-dominant OBCs and Dalits. The first is a result of a process that began in the mid-1980s, the second is of more recent origin.

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