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From: Yash
Is Hindu Vote Bank Feasible?
By R. Balashankar
By R. Balashankar
Strategic voting has never been a Hindu forte. At the time of elections, media is flooded with reports about how Muslims and Christians manipulated the outcome by their en bloc voting, which in secular parlance is strategic voting to defeat the only whipping boy of Indian politics, the BJP, which according to them is seen as a Hindu party. The BJP gets beaten by both ends of the stick. The protagonists of strategic minority voting dump it and ostracise it as a Hindu party. The leaders who aggressively espouse Hindu grievances condemn it for not being Hindu enough.
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