The recent bypoll results all over the country have once again proved the growing power of the political narrative, social engineering and “subaltern Hindutva” ideological consolidation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Sangh parivar.
Going by their vision and mission, this strategy of the Sangh seems to comprise three elements:
1) Social and cultural patronage to the militant strata of marginalised Hindu castes;
2) Political consolidation on the Hindutva agenda with overt anti-Muslim politics;
3) Electoral representation for the most neglected but numerically important “Hindu” castes, while keeping the hegemony and domination of the ‘upper’ castes intact.
by Shivasundar
13/11/2022