Castes call the shots in Huzurabad bypoll
The Hindu
Leaders trying to get commitment from communities to support their candidates
Some may not agree that caste plays crucial role in deciding winner in an election.
Irrespective of one’s opinion, candidates and their ‘behind-the-scene’ strategists are concentrating on how to secure maximum votes from castes that have large number of voters in Huzurabad byelection. While contestants of main political parties are occupied with door-to-door campaign as curtains will be drawn on canvassing in eight days, persons ‘in-charge’ of their victory and strategists are completely engaged catching leaders of the castes that matter.
For them, castes with more voters are most important now. Leaders of communities that can influence people of other sections are even more important. To approach voters of these communities, parties are picking up leaders from those castes and sending them to convince ‘voters of their respective castes’.