Synopsis: A national party must make a choice: either it aligns with the deeply entrenched upper-caste minority, or reinvents itself as an unapologetic party of the lower-caste majority, with their political, economic, and cultural emancipation as its explicit goal. Unless the Congress recognises this structural reality, it will remain trapped in its Gandhian-nationalist past, speaking to an imaginary nation, while the living Indians in flesh-and-blood have long moved to a new political age. It must have the courage to realise that “The mega-organisational structure that belonged to the Congress can today serve a new end, if it lets itself be seized by the oppressed majority of millennia.”

“No caste, no religion and no god, but ethics, ethics and ethics; most appropriately and accordingl

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