The writer is professor, Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad
The Battle For The Bahujan
Even as Mayawati tries to sideline him, Chandrashekhar’s Bhim Army is expanding
Bahujan politics, known earlier as Dalit politics, is at an interesting juncture, especially in North India. Since the 1980s to 2016 the movement asserted itself largely through the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) under the hegemonic influence of the Kanshi Ram-Mayawati combine. Around 2016, it saw the emergence of aggressive youth leaders like Jignesh Mevani in Gujarat and Chandrashekhar Azad in Uttar Pradesh. These youth leaders used the assertive Dalit vocabulary against the “dominant others”, which the BSP employed during its early phase. Over time, the BSP went beyond aggressive language against other sections of society and adopted a partly inclusive discourse, which suited its move to bahujan and sarvajan politics.
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