Caste and Politics - Indian Polity Video Lecture - UPSC

when we discuss about of the caste
system how is caste getting political
and what is the role of caste in
politics when we take this point when
the political parties are making the
candidates to stand so in politics we
have political parties so when the
political parties have to make the
candidates to stand for the elections
they chose on the basis of the caste
sentiments so when they decided that
this particular caste people are in
majority in that particular constituency
of a parliament segment then they would
like to give preference for the
candidates who are from that particular
caste so this is one of the basic thing
where the cash plays a very dominant
role in politics so the cash sentiments
are being encashed by the political
parties in order to get gains from that
particular caste community people but if
you look at the segments no
parliamentary segment or constituency
have a clearly a particular caste be
purely dominating the entire scene in
the entire India out of the 543
parliamentary constituency no
constituency is having a clearly
mentioning that this particular cash
people only can get voting for you so
from this point it is very clear that no
one caste sentiments or one-party
sentiments or one religion sentiments
can encash you to become a
parliamentarian so you need to get at
least two castes or three castes support
for you in order to win in the elections
and in case if you feel that this
particular candidate has won the
elections by getting the cash sentiment
obviously you would get a doubt that
Hawaii the ruling party members MPs and
sitting MLS would lose the elections the
sitting MLS and the sitting MPs why
would they lose the elections if they
are already proven that they have the
opinion or the majority of support of a
particular caste group people the issue
is that in most of the times yes the
political parties would like to give
preference for the people those who have
inclination towards the particular caste
and depending on the majority of the
people those who are then the particular
caste they would like to take the
opening from them and try to put the
candidate to appeal to the cash
sentiments of the people to engage them
and to win in the elections but it is
not always right why means no
parliamentary segment would have the
majority of the people coming from the
same segment and in the same way no
ruling party MLA or MP would lose the
elections in the situations are like
that but often in India we find that the
same doing party candidate would lose
the elections and would happen to have
many other things on a sequence so like
this it will be happening in a
continuous chain so only the caste
system would not be the major issue yes
we have a word called World Bank
politics
when the vote bank politics are being
mentioned clearly that means that in
order to encash the words of the
particular cash people political parties
always would try to play the cards of
using the cash system religion and
gender and try to make the things
political eyes this we can study under
the heading of politics influencing cast
or using cast so it is not the cast
entering into politics but the political
leaders itself will use the cast to
political eyes that one and to make sure
that the issues are being political eyes
and they get the larger benefits of the
particular cash flow people and also we
have the category nation of the cash
like forward cash and backward can so
the forward cast people and the backward
cash people decision and we also have
the division according to the
Constitution like the scheduled cash
people scheduled type people so these
all make the divisions of the caste
system also to get empowered in the
politics because in India we have
certain seats reserved for certain
categories of people like Scheduled
Caste on the schedule tribal people so
it is also revealed for that
constitution area also they need to get
certain support because in order to end
the discrimination basing on the caste
that particular cash people have to be
brought into light and provide certain
kinds of benefit for them in order to
make their particular cash people to
economically grow well equal to the
backward caste and the forward cash
people whom so called forward and
backward castes are there so because of
this kind of steps taken by the
constitutional authorities during the
initial framing status of the
Constitution this has made the people of
Dalits and OBC categories of people to
be the dominant role in
Indian political scenario you need to
have support of more than two or three
catch people but the major share you get
from the adding of his elite words or
the Waubonsee words which will bring a
change in the political structure or the
change in the government structure
because the government's change for
every term and the ruling party will
often lose elections basing on the split
of the Wars of the SCS and vsts and as
well see OBC categories of the people
but there are also views that always
focusing on the caste system is not
right because of too much focus on the
caste system gender discrimination
religious issues so gender religion and
caste issues will seriously make the
concerns towards the basic requirements
of the problems to be undermined like
poverty terrorism and all these things
for the words leading towards the lack
of development so these kind of the
basic issues have to be addressed very
clearly in order to solve the problem
science we should not localize ourselves
regarding the solving of issues of the
Kazakh sentiments caste issues and all
these things but our larger goal is to
have eliminate poverty from the nation
eliminate the terrorism from the nation
and to bring the nation into the lines
of development and to achieve the
largest scale of development on a major
larger scale to make India to be a well
developed nations not concerning in
itself to fight itself in the communal
violence on the gender issues or various
other small small challenges which are
real time challenges to democracy but we
have to learn how to overcome these
challenges and to become a very good
developed nation by developing all the
sections and all the categories of the
people so now we also have the tensions
growing up because of the caste system
which may lead to tensions conflicts and
violence so when the concept of tensions
will raise how can the concept of
tensions rise because of the caste
system if one particular cash people
started to dominate the other caste
people obviously in order to make them
to understand like they are inferior
Dennis we are superior than them it
would lead to conflict between the two
caste groups then tensions will arise
which always results in a conflict and
sometimes into the form of the violent
methods of violence will broke out in
the different caste groups so we not
religious gender issues not only the
religious issues not on the caste issues
any issue which is a challenge to the
democracy is must have to be taken care
properly and it has to be addressed very
clearly otherwise we would be in trouble
in the modern form of democracy but when
we ask or discuss about the caste system
we clearly understood that how can cast
be political eyes why is cash being
political eyes cash is being political
eyes because of political parties which
are in India we have many political
parties in India any party which would
like to come to power in politics or to
like to form a government ultimately
they would like to get the measure P
support of the people of a majestic
caste group people not really the
measure to religious people majority
gender people like men and women but
also the majority caste people basing on
these number of people in the particular
caste they would like to make it a wood
band for them from that particular caste
like to cash or 3 cos together they
would like to make an old bank politics
depending on the situation but the
actual reality is no parliamentary
segment or a constituency has a clear
majority of a particular caste group
people so it is very clear they need to
get at least two or three cash groups in
support to them then only the candidate
can win the elections in the
parliamentary segment or in the
Legislative Assembly segment then we
move on to the politicalization of the
cash so cash do not approach to anybody
but the politics itself
to cast group people in order to
acknowledge them like we are taking you
into politics because you have you are
representing from that particular caste
so automatically caste system is being
dragged into politics according to the
situation and it also happens to the
issue of having using the words like
forward caste and backward castes from
the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribe
which is given in the Constitution
itself like Dalits robing seas and all
so these are further added on to the
caste system in the political system
arena like having this particular group
people into our favor like Dolly Sods of
obesity would get an additional benefit
or a clear margin victory or the other
things but sometimes we also need to
remember that if you focus more on the
general issues focus more on the
religious issues and on the cash
considerations
we are undermining the actual real
development issues like poverty to
eliminate this poverty to eliminate
terrorism and to eliminate or to make
India to be a developed nation and also
we need to remember clearly that
tensions may be caused because of caste
conflicts and that made sometimes
leading to violent methods so in this
unit we have thoroughly discussed for
the caste issues and we also need to
remember that the only cast basis of a
candidate would not make him to win and
there are again divisions on the caste
system also because there are divisions
like men and women higher caste and
lower caste people are sorry rich people
and the poor people in the same caps so
it does not clearly reveal such that the
only third particular caste the
influence would help him to win the
elections but sometimes it may be adding
one to the candidates basing on its his
candidates but still we need to remember
that it is a major challenge to the
Indian democracy not only in democracy
to any democracy so gender
discrimination
communalism and then we have the
religious discrimination or religious
conflicts where in India has to take a
stand to be a ticular state and we also
have
test politics so these three are the
major challenges of modern democratic
system well it'd be in India India we
have the cast also in India but when it
comes to the other nations or across the
world we have the gender dish gender
issue discrimination and also the
religious racial discrimination is
happening across the world so the
modern-day challenges for democracy are
one is a major one is gender issues the
other one is the religious conflicts let
us hope index can successfully manage
all the issues and turn to be a
developed nation by giving a equitable
and natural share which is just
available to all the sections of the
peoples and all sections of the people
should be able to get their natural
share in the development and would like
to be an active participate of members
and contribute their effective role to
make the initiative of developed in
India from their own point of view and
everybody would contribute their own
expressions or their own way by
developing themselves and also be a part
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