Title: Can a Caste Census Reverse the BJP’s Advantage in Wooing Lower Castes?
Published on: November 27, 2023
Published in: The India Forum
| The release of Bihar’s caste survey has sparked jubilation among social justice advocates and anxiety within the BJP, revealing the party’s vulnerability in its caste-based social engineering strategy. While the BJP’s success lies in exploiting intra-caste rivalries, the caste census poses a threat by highlighting socio-economic disparities and challenging the party’s overarching narrative of Hindutva, nationalism, and development. |