Opinion: With Brahmin, OBC And ST Chief Ministers, Modi Lays Solid Groundwork For 2024 Polls

In the final three days, the BJP has sprung three huge surprises throughout Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The get together not solely did elect CM faces having low likelihood and totally different castes but additionally introduced six deputy chief ministers from diversified backgrounds to set its solid equations proper. This is BJP’s social engineering at work.

If we begin from Chhattisgarh, the state now has a tribal (ST) chief as Chief Minister in Vishnu Deo Sai. Chhattisgarh has a 32 per cent tribal inhabitants which accounts for round 7.5% of the nation’s complete tribal inhabitants. Sai hails from the Sahu (Teli) group which has a large presence within the Durg, Raipur and Bilaspur divisions. The get together additionally made Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma Deputy Chief Ministers. Sao is an OBC chief whereas Sharma is a Brahmin. On the opposite hand, Raman Singh has been made speaker to maintain the get together’s Rajput votes intact.

Then there comes Madhya Pradesh. Here get together elected OBC chief Mohan Yadav because the Chief Minister and Jagdish Devda & Rajendra Shukla because the Deputy Chief Ministers. Devda belongs to the SC group, and Shukla is a Brahmin chief. On the opposite hand, Speaker-designate Narendra Singh Tomar hails from a Rajput household. 

In Rajasthan, BJP made first time MLA and a Brahmin chief Bhajan Lal Sharma Chief Minister of the state. Former Lok Sabha MP Diya Kumari is among the two Deputy Chief Ministers. A member of the previous Jaipur royal household, Diya Kumari is a Brahmin face and a lady chief. The different deputy CM is Prem Chand Bairwa, a member of the Dalit group.

The CM and Deputy CM selections within the three states additionally replicate the feelings of their inhabitants and so they have been rightly given apt representations via these leaders,

Dalits make up over 16 per cent of India’s inhabitants, OBCs round 45 per cent and Brahmins and Rajputs round 10 per cent collectively. This manner, the BJP has tried to woo round 71 per cent of the voters forward of the essential 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Now it is going to be essential to see whether or not Narendra Modi-Amit Shah’s masterplan makes the 2024 elections a  cakewalk for the BJP or not. 

On the opposite hand, the Congress which is but to get better from the stunning ballot losses in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh has some critical works at its disposal – bringing the India alliance on the identical platform by choosing a impartial chief as convenor and finalising the essential seat-sharing formulation for the Lok Sabha elections which is simply 5 months away. If the get together manages to finalise a seat-sharing formulation effectively earlier than time, it’d get an edge in opposition to the BJP within the contest.