Congress and Rahul Gandhi’s pitch for caste-based census throughout the nation in a bid to counter BJP’s Hindutva ballot plank, the saffron get together has performed two main playing cards – one was ‘poor’ caste and now the ‘GYAN’. Reacting to the opposition’s demand for a caste census, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned throughout meeting polls in November that there’s just one caste for the federal government and that’s ‘poor folks’. He mentioned that the NDA authorities has been working for the welfare of this caste.
Now, two months later, forward of the essential Lok Sabha elections, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned that ‘GYAN’ encompasses the Modi authorities’s 4 principal focus factors. Explaining ‘GYAN’, FM Sitharaman mentioned that G stands for ‘Garib’ (Poor), Y for ‘Yuva’ (Youth), A for ‘Annadata’ (Farmer) and N for ‘Nari’ (Girls). She mentioned that PM Modi believes in specializing in these 4 ‘castes’ and the federal government is dedicated to the progress of those 4 sections. Whereas some might have taken it calmly, this can be a broader narrative on which the Modi authorities is working and is wooing the voters of this part.
The federal government has already been working numerous packages for these 4 sections and a few of them are the SAUBHAGYA electrical energy scheme, Ujjwala LPG cylinder scheme, Talent India or Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), promotion of sports activities by means of TOPS and Khelo India, and Kisan Samman Nidhi. These are simply a few of the schemes of the Modi authorities that cater to those 4 sections and if taken a holistic view, any poor household.
Girls and youth kind a majority of the Indian voters and the NDA authorities has been in a position to hold this part completely happy within the 2019 polls and the continuation of such schemes is probably going to assist the ruling get together within the upcoming polls as effectively. Congress, which has been speaking about caste-based census every day forward of the meeting polls in November, has not solely toned down on the problem however now talks about it very not often. Likely, the grand previous get together might have realised that the narrative didn’t work in its favour and somewhat gave the BJP an opportunity to additional spotlight the schemes run by its authorities. Now, the query right here is, can Congress discover a repair to BJP’s ‘GYAN’ and ‘poor’ caste narrative? Within the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress is just not solely dealing with a difficulty on the alliance entrance but it surely should discover ballot planks that resonate with the widespread folks.
