#election strategy

The ’70s witnessed the Navnirman student’s movement, essentially an urban upsurge against those who were repeating ad nauseum the slogans of green and white revolutions. To recover from the setback caused by the Navnirman movement, the Congress formulated an election strategy around a combination of caste and community known as KHAM (Kshatriya-Harijan-Adivasi-Muslim combine). After the great success of this formula in the Assembly elections of 1980, the upper castes for the first time sensed a political and economic threat to their domination. To them it appeared that their political power was slipping away and being transferred to the ‘backward castes and communities’. The educated middle class, mainly the Brahmins, Banias and Patidars, reacted sharply by starting an agitation against the reservation system in 1981. Probably for the first time in independent India, a modern industrial metropolis experienced such extreme forms of caste violence. The clashes between the savarnas and the Dalits in the industrial periphery of Ahmedabad gradually evolved into a caste war that spread to the towns in 18 out of the then 19 districts. In many villages dominated by land owning Patidars in North and Central Gujarat, Dalit bastis were burnt. Caste tension resurfaced in 1985 in the second anti-reservation agitation. The issue this time was the increase in job quotas of the non-Dalit socially and educationally backward castes; yet the victims were all Dalits. As a result of these two agitations, the Brahmin-Bania-Patidar combine acquired a savarna unity.

Full Frontal did a segment this week that was critical of some billionaire who’s campaigning for impeachment, on the basis that he’s probably just setting himself up for a presidential run. I don’t disagree with the premise (and I certainly don’t want your goddamn billionaire presidents), but the segment bugged me nonetheless. This really irritating bit of Received Liberal Wisdom™ pervaded their whole perspective: that talking about impeachment is BAD... because conservatives don’t like it.

अगले साल 7 राज्यों के चुनाव में नई रणनीति अपनाएगी भाजपा, बिना CM चेहरे के सामूहिक नेतृत्व में उतरेगी पार्टी New Delhi News: देश के सात राज्यों में अगले साल होने वाले विधानसभा चुनावों को लेकर भारतीय जनता पार्टी (BJP) ने अपनी सांगठनिक तैयारियां तेज कर दी हैं। सूत्रों के मुताबिक, पार्टी नेतृत्व इस बार चुनावों में एक बेहद नई और अलग राजनीतिक रणनीति अपनाने पर गंभीरता से विचार कर रहा है।...

अगले साल 7 राज्यों के चुनाव में नई रणनीति अपनाएगी भाजपा, बिना CM चेहरे के सामूहिक नेतृत्व में उतरेगी पार्टी New Delhi News: देश के सात राज्यों में अगले साल होने वाले विधानसभा चुनावों को लेकर भारतीय जनता पार्टी (BJP) ने अपनी सांगठनिक तैयारियां तेज कर दी हैं। सूत्रों के मुताबिक, पार्टी नेतृत्व इस बार चुनावों में एक बेहद नई और अलग राजनीतिक रणनीति अपनाने पर गंभीरता से विचार कर रहा है।...

PKR appoints Amirudin Shari as Election Director, restructures team with new appointments and TERAS system to strengthen poll readiness. #politics