In UP strategy, BJP sets sights on savarna votes it won & lost

With parties kicking up dust ahead of the battle for Uttar Pradesh in 2012, elements of the BJP’s poll strategy are already apparent. In a state that is the last holdout of political fragmentation in the Hindi heartland after Nitish’s landslide victory in Bihar encouraged hopes of blurring caste faultlines even in that chronically fissured state, the BJP is preparing to focus on winning back the savarna, read Brahmin, vote.

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