Key Points
A nationwide caste census and then reallocation of government benefits and spoils according to each sections numerical strength.. Many of these were simply dismissed by the BJP as falsehoods..
In fact, the Congresss approach to distributive socialism following a caste census was dismissed contemptuously asrevdis..
If you check out the full-page advertisements in your newspapers these days, you also see a plethora of other freebies in Haryana: LPG cylinders at just Rs 500 to 46 lakh families, a free milk scheme for schoolgirls and the waiving of canal water cess...
Women, young people, senior citizens below an income level, as well as the unique sect of Warkaris (casteless, Bhakti cult followers, about 16 lakh in number) will all get cash handouts and subsidies..
The new Waqf bill, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarmas talk of land jihad, Yogis proposed legislative amendment to bring in life imprisonment for love jihad, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma accusing one community of not controlling its population these are all instinctive, defensive moves...