BJP focuses on caste management as Lok Sabha election enters final phase
election enters the last phase, the BJP leadership is going all out on a damage-control mission to avert possible setback in Bihar due to a caste imbalance in its support.
There are eight parliament seats going for polls in the last phase in Bihar in the Magadh-Shahabad region.In 2019, NDA had won all eight with BJP winning five and ally JDU winning three. During the 2020 assembly elections, though, the RJD-led Grand Alliance performed better than NDA in this region. Now, in 2024, there is little change in the political equation and the ground situation.
However, a clear division on caste lines is shaping up with the Kushwaha community, which used to be a strong support base of JDU leader and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, drifting away from NDA.
The community seems to have developed a distrust for BJP that has not fielded any Kushwaha candidate. This is despite community leader Upendra Kushwaha of Rashtriya Lok Morcha being the NDA candidate from Karakat LS constituency. In fact, according to political observers, Karakat is the root cause of the problems faced by the NDA vis-a-vis Kushwahas.
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