The focus on caste in politics can sometimes give an impression that elections are all about caste and nothing else. -SST 10th

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No, I do not agree. The focus on caste in politics can sometimes give an impression that elections are all about caste and nothing else.  This is far from true because:  (i) No parliamentary constituency in the country has a clear majority of one single caste. So, every candidate and party needs to win the confidence of more than one caste and community to win elections.  (ii) No party wins the votes of all the voters of a caste or community. When people say that a caste is a ‘vote bank’ of one party, it usually means that a large proportion of the voters from the caste vote for the party.  (iii) Many political parties may put up candidates from the same caste (if that caste is believed to dominate the electorate in a particular constituency). Some voters have more than one candidate from their caste while many voters have no candidates from their caste. (iv) The ruling party of the sitting M.P. or M.L.A. frequently loses elections in our country. That could not have happened if all castes or communities were frozen in their political preferences.

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