₹1 lakh to a woman in every poor household, apart from a big-budget job training scheme for Indian youth. Given the BJP’s own welfarist approach, the fiscal part is surely less of a target for flak; a caste count, however, might be taken as a broadside against its political playbook of Hindu consolidation.
In the ideological battle, this is what the Congress hopes to challenge. Expect the BJP to focus heavily on Other Backward Class votes, the electorate’s bulge bracket.
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