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In the past 10 days, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has addressed 'sneh milans' of nine such sub-groups, with OBC leaders felicitating the CM and assuring support to the BJP Tuesday.

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													Patidar support waning, BJP eyes groups among OBCs in Gujarat too
													
														In the past 10 days, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has addressed 'sneh milans' of nine such sub-groups, with OBC leaders felicitating the CM and assuring support to the BJP Tuesday.
															
					
											
						
														
								
									
										
											
																									
													
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	Gandhinagar | Updated: August 30, 2022  7:26:34 pm														
													
															
													
												
												


		
		
			
				
			
		
		
			
				
			
		
		
			
				
			
		
	

											
											
														
														
														
													Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel at a program with the Goswami Samaj at Gandhinagar. (Photo: Twitter/@Bhupendrapbjp)As it did in Uttar Pradesh, and is now attempting in Karnataka, the BJP is re-engineering its political strategy to woo sub-groups among OBCs in Gujarat.

In the past 10 days, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has addressed ‘sneh milans’ of nine such sub-groups, with OBC leaders felicitating the CM and assuring support to the BJP Tuesday.

The OBCs constitute nearly 52% of the population in Gujarat, and with both the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wooing them too, the BJP has refocused its attention on the non-dominant groups among them. The Congress has an OBC leader in PCC chief Jagdish Thakor and AAP in Isudan Gadhvi, its joint general secretary.

They include the Vishvakarmas, who comprise artisans like carpenters, blacksmiths; the Bhois, who traditionally pick water chestnuts and lotus stems and sell the same for livelihood; Ranas, who specialise in zari work on textiles; Ravals, who rear camels or work as drummers; Odhs, who build mud houses and dig ponds; Goswamis, a community of sadhus; Vanzaras, a nomadic community; and Nai-Vanand, who are barbers. There are nearly 146 such OBC communities in Gujarat.

The sub-groups that are publicly supporting the BJP at these sneh- milans “can be easily drawn to a party in power”, the party believes.

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/patidar-support-waning-bjp-eyes-groups-among-obcs-in-gujarat-too-8121330/

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