One of the greatest writers that this civilisation has ever produced, Rabindranath Tagore, in his collection of poems Gitanjali wrote, 'Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free.
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First and foremost, the back of a sinister Patidar agitation has been broken. The Patels of Gujarat have announced loudly, that they are back where they belong – with the BJP.
A lot of the credit has to go to the unassuming duo of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, who quietly weathered that unconscionable caste storm, and stuck to their party’s core values of pluralism and development.
Perhaps this was the only response possible, for a state which had suffered terribly in the past from that notorious KHAM theory (This was a plan devised by the Congress’s Madhavsinh Solanki in the 1980s, which sought to divide Gujarati society and create four vote banks – Kshatriya, Harijan, Adivasi and Muslim – which would keep the Congress in power for ages to come; instead, the Congress was wiped out in the 1990 assembly elections).
Second, the AIMIM of Asaddudin Owaisi has picked up wards in Muslim-dominant localities. This is a continuation of an ongoing national trend, wherein pockets of the Muslim community express their disgust with the Congress electorally, at having been used as a vote bloc for so long, with no benefits, yet with all the stigma of the ages.
Politically, we may treat this as a transition phase, during which the Congress loses out on their traditional vote banks, and gains further electoral irrelevance, while the Muslim community strives to discard their Ashrafi shackles, and somehow finally joins the mainstream. We saw it in Bihar before, we see it happening in Gujarat now, and we will see it in West Bengal next month.
Third, Hardik Patel has been shown his place by his own community, who expressed their disaffection for such insidious, divisive caste politics the only way they know how – by the vote.
These election results make it clear that the reckless agitprop face of the Patidar upheaval, head of the Congress in Gujarat, and Rahul Gandhi’s blue-eyed boy, will have to devise a fresh schema if he and his party are to avert political oblivion. Caste politics won’t work in this state.
Fourth, activist and MLA Jign
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