Since the influence of upper caste politics started to appear in each and every policy taken by the central government, the Dalit communities, who are not happy with some of the polices, have been trying to forge a powerful defence mechanism against this.
As a part of this, the Dalit communities have rallied behind the leaders or promising figures emerged from their community enthusiastically, ditching their old political masters who consider them as a mere vote bank.
The emergence of Dalit leaders like Jignesh Mevani is the perfect indicator of the new political approach of the Dalit communities.
The violence, happened in Maharashtra, also does have some implications: the Dalit communities’ presence in the political hemisphere can no longer be ignored.
It seems that the national parties particularly ruling party BJP is well aware of this reality (the saffron party suffered the consequences of its pro-upper caste governance in the last Gujarat election in which it only received ninety nine seats far less than what it had secured in previous elections in the state which it has been ruling for sixteen years).
The BJP and RSS have tactically denounced the violence happened in Maharashtra. Notably, both of them have refined from making any direct comment against any caste groups, particularly against the Dalit community groups.
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