In the aftermath of decline of Congress in 1990s and eminence of caste based parties, especially those led by Backward and Dalit leaders, seem to have completed their full cycle. This is the time of their decline in the same fashion the grand old party went in post-Rajeev Gandhi era.
The VP Singh phenomena caused much upheaval in society especially in the north and result was the change in social and political situation. The power went to the OBCs and Dalits. Likes of Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ramvilas Paswan, Ajit Singh, Om Prakash Chautala, HD Devegowda, Mayawati came to the political stage as future of the country. Hopes generated among the toiling and neglected masses from their new mesihas but it vanished soon within two decades that the leaders from the oppressed communities were followeres of corrupt practices of their elite caste presedecessors.
VP Singh died unnoticed by these leaders who came in the tide of Mandal movement. But soon Lalu along with other such leaders lost his glamour among the OBCs because he hardly gave anything substantial to their own caste men, Mulayam and Mayawati also followed the suit and it is the time of their decay too. Let us see how long the caste plays role in Indian politics.
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