BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday had lunch with Dalit and backward class members in this dusty village in southeastern Uttar Pradesh.
The fare was not elaborate but the symbolism was hard to miss -- the party is reaching out to caste groups not counted among its core supporters ahead of the crucial 2017 election.
The choice of place too said a lot. Jogiyapur is a Bind-dominated village in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi. Binds are an extremely backward...
BJP’s Amit Shah has dal-rice, pakora with Dalits
The fare was not elaborate but the symbolism was hard to miss -- the party is reaching out to caste groups not counted among its core supporters ahead of the crucial 2017 election.
The choice of place too said a lot. Jogiyapur is a Bind-dominated village in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi. Binds are an extremely backward...
BJP’s Amit Shah has dal-rice, pakora with Dalits