Spectre of caste census limits BJP's OBC politics

Even among OBC parties that support a caste census, this could be a miscalculation because these largely family-run 'Mom and Pop' shops are seen as representing the dominant castes among the OBC.

For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh represented both the potential of its OBC (Other Backward Classes) politics as well as its limits. On his demise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised the faithful that “to fulfil the void left by him, we should work hard for his ideals.”

As an OBC, the PM often presents himself as the product of the marriage between Mandal and Kamandal when he seeks votes in UP and Bihar. Why then is he reluctant to go forward with a caste census, which most other political parties support? That would