There is another important aspect to this: caste. Sangh’s infiltration of the LJP can also be seen as an attempt to further weaken Bihar’s social justice-based parties. In this election, the LJP has become an important vehicle for promoting upper caste representation. More than 40 percent of the LJP candidates …
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2. Coherence within the Alliance This focus on employment also fits well with Tejashwi’s pre-election alliance with Congress and the three left-wing parties: CPI-ML, CPI and CPI-M. The idea of the alliance is to focus on the poor, the unemployed and farmers and not so much on specific caste groups. …
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