Key Points
Caste has taken centre stage ahead of the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections, with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar making the findings of the states caste survey public...
The survey results were long-awaited and came on unsurprising lines..
Even as the central BJP leadership called the survey a ploy to divide the country along caste lines, Bihar BJP state president Samrat Chaudhary stated that the party was not against caste survey and had in fact repeatedly demanded the government to make the findings public...
By rejecting the slogan, as ThePrints political editor DK Singh points out in his column, Modi is showing an inclination to return to his partys original electoral strategy centred around stoking latent resentment of non-dominant communitiessay, for instance, non-Yadav OBCs in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, non-Jats in Haryana, non-Marathas in Maharashtra or non-tribals in Jharkhandagainst dominant ones to mobilise the former in its favour...
In this noise, Opposition leaders have brought caste to the centre stage ahead of the Lok Sabha elections by converting it into a national demand and mobilising the backward castes..
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