Across eight states — Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Telangana — 55 Indians out of 100 would prefer a political leader from their own caste and religion, found the study, ‘Politics And Society Between Elections 2018’, carried out by the Azim Premji University (APU) and Lokniti (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, or CSDS) in 22 assembly constituencies with 16,680 respondents.
No more than 10 per cent would actively choose a political leader from a different caste. A little more than a third of those surveyed said the caste (35 per cent) of their political leader would not matter. “There is a distrust of leaders from outside the community across all classes, and all caste-class intersections,” the study said. “The upper castes in general express the lowest trust in leaders from outside their own.”
While 55 per cent of all respondents expressed a bias for a political leader from the same caste, these results varied between states.
Jharkhand and Rajasthan had the most respondents (10per cent) who said they would actively choose a leader from a different caste.
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