Continuing with its aggressive cause of wooing tribals through various schemes along with the promise of 27 per cent reservation for other backward castes, the BJP in Madhya Pradesh recently celebrated the death anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and ignored his contribution. criticized Congress for
It is widely seen as a further extension of the BJP’s meticulous casteist strategy devised ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections.
Several party leaders paid tribute to the architect of the Constitution with the conclusion of the ‘Samvidhan Gaurav Abhiyan’ of the party’s Scheduled Castes cell, which began on 26 November. The party also underlined the fact that the Congress never built a national memorial for Dr Ambedkar, and that the BJP-led was the one that built one at his birthplace, Mhow.
The Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led government also announced that it would name a proposed wildlife sanctuary after Dr Ambedkar, which would come up in Sagar district. The BJP has already talked about focusing on tribals and Dalits in its organizational meetings.
Weeks ago, when the Congress raised the issue of 27 per cent reservation for OBCs, the ruling party opposed the move and strongly raised the issue in the High Court. However, the HC ultimately refused to lift the stay on the quota. Amid allegations by state Congress chief Kamal Nath that the BJP was lax in fighting the battle before the high court, the state government also issued a notification to implement the increased quota in educational enrollment and government recruitments.
The Congress’ move to favor the OBCs was seen as a ploy to dent the BJP’s strong vote bank among the backward castes. But the BJP retaliated by infiltrating the Congress’s traditional vote bank – the tribals.
BJP celebrated the birth anniversary of tribal leader Birsa Munda with pomp in Bhopal by making him the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi part of the ceremony. Rejecting the demand of its own leaders to name the renovated Habibganj railway station after the late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the BJP named it after the tribal queen Kamalapati.
The party largely celebrated the martyrdom day of tribal hero Tantya Bhil in Indore on December 4, renaming a railway station after him. The state cabinet on Tuesday changed the name of Chhindwara University to Raja Shankar Shah University after the famous Gond king.
A senior Congress leader, requesting anonymity, said the party was trying to dent the BJP’s OBC vote bank over the issue of reservation, but a well-prepared BJP retaliated by wooing the tribals at large. Had it.
The BJP’s electoral strategy got an unexpected success when three-time Congress MLA Sulochana Rawat switched sides ahead of the recent by-elections and won. As the BJP termed it a major victory within the Congress bastion, the setback angered the leaders of the old party.
The BJP’s crackdown on caste equations has its roots in the outcome of the 2018 assembly elections, when the Congress was successful in finding caste issues such as the dilution of the SC/ST Act and the emergence of a general, backward, minority welfare organization that helped upper castes. inspired. And against the issues of OBC reservation. This formula, along with farm loan waiver, brought the Congress closer to a majority.
A seasoned campaigner, Chouhan is well prepared this time too with the Congress in a reactive mode. The party also celebrated Birsa Munda’s birth anniversary in Jabalpur, but it was a dreary affair. On Monday, Kamal Nath slammed the BJP’s programs to woo tribals, saying the state government can organize many programs for tribals, but the fact that Madhya Pradesh tops the list of states in terms of atrocities and atrocities against tribals. Up, can’t change.
Senior journalist Lalit Shastri said that as per the BJP’s national policy, Chouhan is running an aggressive campaign to woo Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes. He said that last time the polarization was at its peak but was incomplete, so this time the BJP has stepped up efforts to complete it.
He said that Chouhan was on the driving seat to please OBCs, SCs and STs.
However, senior political analyst Girija Shankar thinks otherwise. Shankar said that if the BJP’s strategy on caste equations was correct, why did the Congress win the elections in the Gwalior region and face a whitewash in the Vindhyas, given the fact that both the regions have similar caste equations, Shankar said. Said it had a lot to do with election management. , choice of candidates and other issues.
When asked about BJP’s mega show for tribals, Shankar said that the bureaucracy pulled the crowd and such crowding does not guarantee electoral victory. The better the election management, the higher your chances of winning, he said.
Shankar further said that issues do not matter in elections, only contemporary emotional issues matter.
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