Aste Census Debate News Today

Even as RSS clarifies its position on caste census after a functionary criticised it, BJP instructs its leaders not to make “contradictory remarks” on the issue.

Be it by courting non-dominant groups within the OBC category, or the most deprived or less mobilised sub-castes within the SCs, or by now reaching out to Pasmanda or backward caste Muslims with its labharthi politics, the BJP has sought to coopt Mandal and combine it with Mandir, often successfully.