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The discourses around reservations, a cornerstone of affirmative action, by the RSS are skillfully manoeuvred so that it does not impact the Hindutva cause of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem Panicker.
The RSS is known for practising what it preaches. Its structure and functioning are such that it doesn’t take caste into consideration
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh shared media reports on RSS-BJP leaders' remarks from the last few years on "ending reservation" and alleged that they have been trying to do away with the quota in education and jobs for the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBC).
New Delhi, April 26 (UNI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday of preventing Delhi from having a Dalit mayor, alleging that the anti-Dalit BJP conspired to cancel the election of MCD mayor through the Lieutenant Governor. These allegations came a day after Lieutenant Governor V. K. Saxena postponed