Identity Politics of Representation and Reservation of Backward Communities in India | Manoj Kumar Mishra

The elevation of Draupadi Murmu, an Adivasi, as President of India succeeded by Ramnath Kovind, a Dalit, as the Constitutional Head of the country signaled adroit strategies by the BJP to represent marginalized sections communities in consonance with its efforts at forging national identities conferring it with electoral success. Much in a similar vein, of late, Mohan Majhi has been anointed as the Chief Minister of Odisha following the BJP