Bangalore: In our Editorial of Feb. 16, 2009 on the forthcoming parliament election we made an important prediction that “caste identity” will kill all national parties. The Deccan Herald (March 8, 2009) Delhi bureau made a survey fully supported our point when it says:
For the first time, no party is talking of coming to power on its own majority… This alone is a clear indication that the era of coalition govts. has come to stay at the national level. It is rather the order of the day.
Power of caste: Deccan Herald, unlike Marwadi bigger dailies with multiple editions and all-India circulation, can afford to speak out the truth though when it comes to Karnataka it maintains a pro-BJP (read pro-Brahminical) tilt. Journalists being mostly from the upper castes have their sympathy for their jati party. All the more, the survey is fairly good though it has over-looked the power of caste.
To the upper caste journalists, who are casteists to the core, caste is a hated subject. That is why they hide the caste. But with all the best efforts to hide it, caste continues to show its ugly head. The coming election will show how the caste identity is killing all national (read upper caste) parties.
BJP & CPM go weak: Yet another important development is the country’s two notorious castiest parties Brahmana Jati Party and the manuwadi marxist- are losing favour. Good development.
The financial melt-down, which the mantra in the mouth of every upper caste today, is not a subject of interest to the poor voters (who alone vote) because they know nothing of it. The urban upper caste manipulators alone talk about it which further confirms that India is a country of village-dwelling producers and not of parasitic urban
