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Back to identity issues in UP

5597 Radhika Ramaseshan Senior journalist Uttar Pradesh is in a political churn a little over a year before it votes. The social hierarchy that evolved in the post-Mandal, post-Ayodhya phases has become shaky. While the order that was built and re-built since the ’90s by the principal political players the BJP, the SP and the BSP is still not seriously challenged, the early tremors leading to a long-term transmutation are palpable. The BJP, SP and BSP, that took caste allegiances for granted and crafted their strategies to get the electoral math correct, may have to revisit their algorithms before 2022. For long, it was a given that the Yadavs, the biggest beneficiary of the empowerment agendas set out for the OBCS, went to the SP as their natural habitat; the Dalits and especially the better off Jatavs, rooted for the BSP. The BJP’s social engineering tactics, honed to near-perfection by KN Govindacharya, a former general secretary, eventually led to the regrouping of th

Tamil Nadu politics after the matriarch, patriarch

Tamil Nadu politics after the matriarch, patriarch Updated: Updated: December 22, 2020 00:08 IST The State’s political future depends crucially on how parties engage changing social forces, with the DMK better placed Share Article DU   | Photo Credit: LAKSHMINARAYANANE The State’s political future depends crucially on how parties engage changing social forces, with the DMK better placed The elections to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly next year will be the first since the passing of the State’s dominant political leaders of the past three decades J.Jayalalithaa who led the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) from 1989 to 2016, and M.Karunanidhi who led the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) from 1969 to 2018. Their passing potentially changes the political terrain. The AIADMK’s support, which depended crucially on charisma under the leadership of both M.G. Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa, is less sustainable as no credible successor has emerged. B

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