It is not much of an issue just now, but it could become one if the idea of a caste census captures the socio-political imagination, going beyond electoral tags and identities By N SATHIYA MOORTHY If someone thought that the recent nation-wide Sanatana Dharma debate would ‘reaffirm’ the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘Hindu majority vote-bank’
It is not much of an issue just now, but it could become one if the idea of caste census captures socio-political imagination, going beyond electoral tags and identities, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
.a more capable State one that operates with greater capacity, greater efficiency, and greater clarity of purpose. But I also see a more despotic State one that places more constraints on speech, assembly, dissent, and critique. It may run better , but on the regime s rules.
By N SATHIYA MOORTHY On the face it, the AIADMK formalising the break in its tie-up with the ruling BJP at the Centre should affect the former in ways that the nation has come to see as ‘vindictive politics’ of the latter. On paper, the BJP’s credibility, if not ‘winnability’, under the Modi-Shah regime has
From the voter-level, traditionally anti-BJP, anti-Hindutva minorities and other secular voters would have an option, especially in the face of the mounting anti-incumbency against the ruling party as it happened in the 2001 assembly polls, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.