Thursday, December 26th, 2019

A column written after the recent Jharkhand assembly election argued that the result shows the Bharatiya Janata Party losing its hold over tribal voters, a trend the writer said was also visible in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, where the party failed to keep its tribal base together. The tribal vote and the Sangh Parivar The column noted that tribal communities make up roughly 8.6 per cent of India’s population but are far from a single bloc. They are split into many groups, sub-groups, clans and kula, and are spread across theRead More