In the previous few many years, particularly after the rise of Mandal politics, the left-liberal mental institution is making an attempt to show only one factor – there isn’t a subaltern Hindutva in India. The mental institution argues this speculation time and again as a result of its entire existence revolves across the argument that the decrease castes in India don’t help Hindutva, ideology of BJP and RSS.Despite proof that implies the opposite – from the Ram Mandir motion through which numerous leaders have been from the OBC group to BJP’s help base since 2014 – the left-liberal institution has saved this argument alive. In the West Bengal meeting election 2021, the massive help for BJP among the many SC, ST and OBC (Hindu) group has as soon as once more began the talk on subaltern Hindutva with many researchers arguing that the politics of the state in the previous few years exhibits that subaltern Hindutva has really arrived.[PC:DailyO]However, the lack of the occasion within the meeting election has as soon as once more enabled the leftist media to hawk the identical idea once more. Shreyas Sardesai, a researcher with leftist electoral evaluation organisation CSDS, argued that the help for BJP among the many subaltern teams (because the leftists classify SC, ST and OBC group) is on decline within the article titled “West Bengal Assembly Elections | Subaltern Hindutva on the wane?”, revealed within the typical suspect, The Hindu.The article is predicated on knowledge collected by Lokniti-CSDS itself, and even in accordance with that knowledge, round 50 per cent of individuals amongst these teams supported BJP. However, the left-liberal institution desires to push it all the way down to your throat that the decrease castes don’t help Hindutva.And this isn’t as if it began solely after the election. Even earlier than the election, the leftist institution was arguing the identical regardless of the proof from the 2019 normal election. Sourav Roy Barman and Pratim Ghosal, a journalist with The Indian Express and a researcher with the University of Oxford respectively, argued that higher castes, not the decrease castes are the primary help base of BJP in West Bengal in an article titled, “Why the BJP’s rise in Bengal can’t be attributed to ‘subaltern Hindutva”.However, the results of the assembly election 2021 suggest the contrary and their contrast with the 2019 general election makes it very evident that BJP’s help among the many subaltern teams has remained intact. In the intense Northern, Southern and Eastern a part of the state, the occasion did effectively within the 2019 normal election in addition to the 2021 meeting election. These are the areas primarily inhabited by SCs, STs and the OBC inhabitants of the state. In Kolkata, the hub of Bhadrlok (Brahmin, Baidya, and Kayastha), the occasion had not gained a single seat throughout the 2019 normal election and gained just one seat within the 2021 meeting election.From the constituency-wise outcomes, it is rather clear which communities made BJP the opposition occasion within the state with 77 seats and 38 per cent of vote share. But, the leftist media doesn’t need you to know that and is arguing to persuade you in any other case.Read More: West Bengal is the unique ‘bimaru’ state of India however Bhadralok-controlled media doesn’t permit it to be a nationwide narrativeSome hot-headed right-wingers on Twitter additionally claimed that subaltern Hindutva is “dead on arrival” on Twitter, with out rigorously inspecting the info.BJP gained 18 seats in West Bengal within the 2019 normal election using on votes of communities like Mahishyas, Tamus, Sahas, and Telis, Sadgops and Namsudras, who’re labeled amongst OBC and SC class. The help for the occasion among the many ST group was additionally very excessive and this resulted in a clear sweep within the Western area of the state, the place the ST, SC and OBCs are concentrated. And the identical communities supported BJP within the 2021 meeting election, too.So, subaltern Hindutva isn’t solely intact in West Bengal however flourishing, and don’t let left-liberal institution persuade you in any other case.