दलित वोट की राजनीति पड़ी अपर कास्ट की नाराज़गी पर भारी

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Channel: ThePrint · 2018 · News & Politics

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The two-day national executive meet of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) beginning Saturday will look at ways of solving its caste conundrum. 

However, at a meeting of all BJP chief ministers and deputy chief ministers last week, both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah expressed deep concern about “upper caste unhappiness with the party,” asking all CMs to address this immediately.

The upper castes — BJP’s traditional vote-bank — have been upset with the party for its overtures to Dalits and other backward castes, an attempt to widen its electoral caste umbrella.


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