They don’t care about caste.”Earlier today, Rajya Sabha lawmaker and senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy told HuffPost India that Hindutva, BJP’s ideology of Hindu nationalism, had beaten caste in the Lok Sabha election. The BJP’s UP performance suggests that the party appears to have changed the rules of the game in India’s most politically significant state. As of 1:00 pm, the Election Commission said that the BJP was leading in 58 seats, while the SP-BSP combine was ahead in 18 seats. In 2014, BJP pulled in 42.63% of the votes, SP (22.36%) and BSP (20%) together were a close second at 42.36%. The success of the caste combine hinged on transferring of votes.

Source: Huffington Post May 23, 2019 08:39 UTC