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Hindus vote en bloc too
by Guest Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:14 am
The Congress has offered up union minister of state for finance, Namo Narain Meena. The 70-year-old is a two-time Member of Parliament and a recipient of the Presidential Police Medal and the Presidential Distinguished Service Medal. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s contender, Harish Chandra Meena, is Namo Narain's half brother and had been Director General of Police, among other posts, before he took voluntary retirement to get into politics.
The family feud has confused Meena voters who, like most communities in Rajasthan, tend to vote en bloc. “Both are well regarded and they’re both Meenas, so the votes are going to beyond the individuals — either to the Congress, where Meena votes traditionally went, or to the BJP, to bring in [Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra] Modi,” said Naresh Meena, a resident of Tonk, where eastern Rajasthan’s "Meena belt" begins.
But Namo Narain and Harish Chandra aren’t the only Meenas in this fight. Also in the fray is Kirori Lal Meena, a former BJP leader whose decision to quit the party was instrumental to ensuring the defeat of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s candidates in the 2008 assembly elections....
“On the face of it, this leaves the Meena votes divided,” said a senior journalist in Rajasthan, who has covered the state for three decades. “But what often happens is that the communities engage in tactical voting. Instead of letting their votes split — which ends up being useful for other contenders from other castes — the leaders in the community settle on one candidate a few days before voting day, and the word is then spread.”
http://scroll.in/article/662374/Brother-battles-brother-in-Rajasthan's-most-intriguing-Lok-Sabha-race
The family feud has confused Meena voters who, like most communities in Rajasthan, tend to vote en bloc. “Both are well regarded and they’re both Meenas, so the votes are going to beyond the individuals — either to the Congress, where Meena votes traditionally went, or to the BJP, to bring in [Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra] Modi,” said Naresh Meena, a resident of Tonk, where eastern Rajasthan’s "Meena belt" begins.
But Namo Narain and Harish Chandra aren’t the only Meenas in this fight. Also in the fray is Kirori Lal Meena, a former BJP leader whose decision to quit the party was instrumental to ensuring the defeat of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s candidates in the 2008 assembly elections....
“On the face of it, this leaves the Meena votes divided,” said a senior journalist in Rajasthan, who has covered the state for three decades. “But what often happens is that the communities engage in tactical voting. Instead of letting their votes split — which ends up being useful for other contenders from other castes — the leaders in the community settle on one candidate a few days before voting day, and the word is then spread.”
http://scroll.in/article/662374/Brother-battles-brother-in-Rajasthan's-most-intriguing-Lok-Sabha-race
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