2024 Lok Sabha polls: BJP virtually triumphs over caste politics
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the BJP seems to have virtually triumphed over the politics of caste ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP’s experiment with the welfare of “Yuva, Mahila, Kisan and Garib” has paid its political dividends in the three states of the Hindi heartland. And the road ahead for the party now looks easy with its continuous attempts to bring various castes under an umbrella of “class politics”, with the help of the welfare schemes launched by the Modi government.
While recently interacting with beneficiaries of the schemes at the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the combination of four — “Youth, Women, Farmers and Poor” — as “the biggest castes”.
Although the Congress remains a major political player in these three states, the poll results brought disappointment in the entire opposition camp, which has been pushing for caste census ahead of the 2024 LS polls.
The issue was put to political test in the assembly polls after the Bihar government conducted its own caste survey and increased the quota for OBCs, SCs and STs.
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- Madhya Pradesh
- Rajasthan
- Telangana
- Chhattisgarh
- Mizoram
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- The Congress was trying to woo OBC voters by promising to conduct caste census in the three states during its poll campaign. As things stand today, the Congress is left nowhere despite its attempts to associate with the Mandal politics, of which it
