NEW DELHI: For the Haryana elections, Congress has allocated 12 tickets to Jatavs and aligned sub-castes within the Dalit community, and five to non-Jatavs, showing its continuing reliance on the dominant Scheduled Caste community as its support base, in line with its lukewarm response to the debate on sub-categorisation.But the in-office BJP, according to an…
LUCKNOW: Jatavs, the core of BSP’s vote base, stood by it in the Lok Sabha elections but Muslim voters didn’t despite being given a choice of candidates representing the community, party chief Mayawati said Wednesday in her first response to drawing a blank in UP.“People from my caste voted mostly for BSP and I am…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had got off to a good start. His early emphasis on ‘Pichde (backward), Dalit, Alpasankhyak (minorities)’ was combined with a sharp focus on farmer issues, joblessness, paper leaks and rising prices. It turned out to be one of his best election strategies, backed by intelligent candidate selection.The Samajwadi Party…
