: Opinion: BJP’s win doesn’t end casteism #IndiaNEWS #News By Arun Sinha The BJP’s claim that its victory in Uttar Pradesh was a victory against casteism does not have any legs to stand on. It
Opinion: BJP’s win doesn’t end casteism #IndiaNEWS #News
By Arun Sinha
The BJP’s claim that its victory in Uttar Pradesh was a victory against casteism does not have any legs to stand on. It was definitely a tempestuous victory against the Samajwadi Party, which while relying predominantly upon the Yadav vote, tried to mobilise Other Backward Classes, but that victory was not a victory of a ‘casteless’ party over a ‘casteist’ party but a victory of a party with a better-nurtured and better-oiled caste coalition.
Of course, hyper-nationalism and Hindutva played a role. But the BJP used them as a rope to string together the caste boats rowing with their separate flags in the social Ganga. The boats have not gone away.
Success Recipe
The BJP primarily succeeded by offering itself as a political instrument to the backward castes and Dalits that were hostile to Yadav ascendancy and dominance. The five years of Akhilesh rule (2012-2017), which was perceived both by the Yadavs and the non-Yadavs as ‘Yadav raj’ for contrarian reasons, broadcast seeds of anti-Yadav sentiment that yielded a plentiful harvest for the BJP.
The BJP did not go to the voters with a casteless stance that would have been befitting a nationalist party. It did not say, “Whether one is a Yadav, a Teli, a Maurya, a Jatav or a Pasi, all are members of the same family. Let all of us get together to build the nation. ? It did not work to foster a brotherhood of the Yadavs and the Telis, Mauryas, Jatavs and Pasis. On the contrary, it worked to foment hostility and widen the gulf between the Yadavs, Other Backward Classes and the Jatavs and other Scheduled Castes for its political benefit.
Of course, it only did what Nitish Kumar had done in Bihar. Much like the Samajwadi Party in UP, the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar had come to be dominated by the Yadavs. Nitish Kumar wove a coalition of non-Yadav backward castes. He added to it a new category of ‘Mahadalitp&H ]H H Y ] ٙH HXY[H[[ۙ[] [ܙ Z[HܛZYXH[Xܘ[K X [ ^Z[[K[^[ۙ]] H [^[ۙ][X]ܙ[YYY][و []]و]HH X] XY[ۙ[ H X[H ٙH[]Y XZˈ]Y[YYY8&[][] HXY&H[]HH ] H H[ ܚٜ ٙHXY Y[X]H X Y H8&[][] HXY8&H H H ܚٜ XY]ؙ[[[ۙ H و HHو H8&[Y] &H H[HݙY[] H[ H[ H[HݙY[[ H]HYY H[][] K܈[[K H ܚٜ H[Z H و H[HݙY[8& [Y [H ZܘY[ [ XZ[H^Z[ LZ^XH [H Y Xܛ H] Hو^[ XH [][H K
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