Election results 2024 has given key lessons on ideology, welfare, and caste census
Saturday’s results for Assembly polls in Jharkhand and Maharashtra cannot be just seen as decider for who gets to form the next government in these States but have long lasting implications with regard to the questions that they settle, at least for the foreseeable future, in the political discourse. Maharashtra election results 2024 LIVE updates | Jharkhand election results 2024 LIVE updates Women and welfare The biggest takeaway of the two big Assembly polls is the fact that both incumbent governments had announced income support schemes targeted at women -“Mukhyamantri Ladki Bahin Yojana” in Maharashtra and the “Mukhyamantri Maiya Samman Yojana” of Jharkhand are said to be the game changers of the elections. Caste census The BJP’s victory in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Rajasthan in 2023 Assembly polls was said to have closed the gate to the caste census as an issue, but in the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, with the “samvidhan khatre main hai” narrative among marginalised sections, the issue gained traction again. Without that, the demand for a caste census will be played out in the BJP narrative as a ploy to fragment Hindu votes and nothing else, an explanation perhaps as to why the “Batenge toh Katenge” and “Ek hai toh safe hai” slogans worked. The former had bested the latter in the Lok Sabha elections on the “Constitution is in danger” plank -- this erosion of support among SCs, STs and OBCs was a blow to the Hindutva project as well, as support from these communities made Hindutva subaltern in character and wider in base, and Hindu society less politically fragmented.
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