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Lok Sabha Election 2024: 17 percent Dalit voters in the country, competition among parties to woo them

The Dalit group is a giant drive within the nation's politics. All political events wish to seize the throne of energy by taking this massive vote financial institution into their fold. In line with present figures, there are 17 % Dalit voters within the nation. Political events are conserving their eyes on these 17 % Dalit voters, who can play an necessary function in crusing their political boat. There are a complete of 543 Lok Sabha seats within the nation, out of which 84 seats are reserved for the Dalit group. If we take a look at the outcomes of reserved seats within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP's absolute rule continues on these seats. Within the elections for the seventeenth Lok Sabha, out of 84 seats reserved for the Dalit group, BJP had captured 46 seats, whereas Congress might win solely 5 seats. The remaining seats have been gained by different regional events. On the similar time, in 2014, out of 84 Dalit reserved seats, BJP had gained 40 seats, whereas Congress had gained solely seven seats.

Each the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led India Alliance try to win seats reserved for the SC-ST group. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making an attempt to keep up a powerful maintain on it by way of his public welfare schemes. Modi has mentioned many occasions that the true social justice is the event of the poor and the disadvantaged. BJP has created a beneficiary vote financial institution by way of all its schemes. On the similar time, Congress is making an attempt to win over Dalit votes, for which most area has been given to welfare schemes within the manifesto. The Dalit face of Congress is Mallikarjun Kharge, who’s the state president of the get together. Together with the regional events doing politics of those two communities, different events are additionally seen scrambling for a share on this vote financial institution. In such a state of affairs, it stays to be seen on whom the Dalit voters specific their belief in 2024.

Punjab has the very best Dalit inhabitants within the nation.
State Dalit Inhabitants (in%) Constituency Reserved Seats
Andhra Pradesh 16.41 42 7
Arunachal Pradesh 00 02 0
Assam 7.15 14 1
Bihar 15.91 40 6
Chhattisgarh 12.82 11 1
Goa 1.74 02 0
Gujarat 6.74 26 2
Haryana 20.17 10 2
Himachal Pradesh 25.19 04 1
Jammu and Kashmir 7.38 06 0
Jharkhand 12.08 14 1
Karnataka 17.15 28 5
Kerala 9.10 20 2
Madhya Pradesh 15.62 29 4
Maharashtra 11.81 48 5
Manipur 3.78 02 0
Meghalaya 0.58 02 0
Mizoram 0.11 01 0
Nagaland 00 01 0
Odisha 17.13 21 3
Punjab 31.94 313 4
Rajasthan 17.83 25 4
Sikkim 4.63 01 0
Tamil Nadu 20.01 39 7
Tripura 17.83 02 0
Uttar Pradesh 20.70 80 17
Uttarakhand 18.76 05 1
West Bengal 23.51 42 10

Union Territory Dalit Inhabitants (in%) Constituency Reserved Seats
Delhi 16.75 07 1
Chandigarh 18.86 01 0
Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1.80 01 0
Daman-Diu 2.52 01 0
Puducherry 15.73 01 0
Lakshadweep 000 01 0
Andaman 000 01 0

Whole 16.63 543 84

In 2019, BJP bought 41% Dalit votes whereas Congress bought 28% Dalit votes.
Class BJP Congress Different
General 61% 17% 22%
OBC 58% 18% 24%
SC 41% 28% 31%
ST 49% 30% 21%
Muslim 10% 51% 39%
Others 35% 33% 32%

State Dalit Inhabitants (in%) Constituency Reserved Seats

Andhra Pradesh 16.41 42 7
Arunachal Pradesh 000 02 0
Assam 7.15 14 1
Bihar 15.91 40 6
Chhattisgarh 12.82 11 1
Goa 1.74 02 0
Gujarat 6.74 26 2
Haryana 20.17 10 2
Himachal Pradesh 25.19 04 1
Jammu and Kashmir 7.38 06 0
Jharkhand 12.08 14 1
Karnataka 17.15 28 5
Kerala 9.10 20 2
Madhya Pradesh 15.62 29 4
Maharashtra 11.81 48 5
Manipur 3.78 02 0
Meghalaya 0.58 02 0
Mizoram 0.11 01 0
Nagaland 0000 01 0
Odisha 17.13 21 3
Punjab 31.94 313 4
Rajasthan 17.83 25 4
Sikkim 4.63 01 0
Tamil Nadu 20.01 39 7
Tripura 17.83 02 0
Uttar Pradesh 20.70 80 17
Uttarakhand 18.76 05 1
West Bengal 23.51 42 10

Union Territory Dalit Inhabitants (in%) Constituency Reserved Seats
Delhi 16.75 07 1
Chandigarh 18.86 01 0
Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1.80 01 0
Daman-Diu 2.52 01 0
Puducherry 15.73 01 0
Lakshadweep 000 01 0
Andaman 000 01 0

Whole 16.63 543 84

Reserved seats and successful events within the seventeenth Lok Sabha

Andhra Pradesh 04 (YSR CP 04)
Assam 01 (BJP 01)
Bihar 07 (JDU 02 LJP 03 BJP 01)
Chhattisgarh 01 (BJP01)
Gujarat 02 (BJP02)
Haryana 02 (BJP02)
Himachal Pradesh 01 (BJP01)
Jharkhand 01 (BJP01)
Karnataka 05 (BJP 05)
Kerala 02 (Congress 02)
Madhya Pradesh 04 (BJP04)
Maharashtra 05 (BJP 02 Shiv Sena 02 Unbiased 01)
Odisha 03 (BJD03)
Punjab 04 (BJP02 Congress02)
Rajasthan 04 (BJP04)
Tamil Nadu07 (DMK04 Congress01 CPI01 VCK01)
Uttar Pradesh 17 (BJP 14 BSP 02 Apna Dal S 01)
Telangana 03 (Congress 01 BJP01 BRS01)
Uttarakhand 01 (BJP01)
West Bengal 10 (TMC05 BJP05)
Delhi 01 (BJP01)

Political democracy just isn’t doable with out social democracy: Babasaheb

Babasaheb Ambedkar instructed two methods by way of which the Dalit group might fulfill their socio-economic wants and calls for – politics of motion and illustration in Parliament. Traditionally, by way of direct wrestle, Dalit actions fought untouchability and demanded an egalitarian society wherein minimal wages, self-respect, dignity and land possession are ensured as commonplace. In 1950, Ambedkar, who led the drafting committee of the Structure, had mentioned within the Constituent Meeting that political democracy couldn’t final lengthy with out social democracy. He mentioned that on the core of such politics shall be freedom, equality and brotherhood.

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