The party and parivar’s strategy is to try and foster a collective identity for all Adivasis
Despite constituting an impressive 8.7% of India’s population, which is scattered across states, Adivasis have never got special attention in the politics of India.As a social category, they have remained for long a suffix of Scheduled Castes in the official parlance of governance. Recall that political parties had SC/ST cells and there were central and state SC/ST commissions not long ago. But for BJP Adivasis have been an important part of its politics, although it is only in the post-2014 dispensation under PM Modi that the party went about it in a more focused manner.
Maximising the uplift when in office: It was the Vajpayee government that instituted a separate National Commission for Scheduled Tribes through the 89th Constitution Amendment Act, 2003. But under Modi systematic efforts to mobilise tribal communities through government developmental schemes are strongly evident.
Maximising the uplift when in office: It was the Vajpayee government that instituted a separate National Commission for Scheduled Tribes through the 89th Constitution Amendment Act, 2003. But under Modi systematic efforts to mobilise tribal communities through government developmental schemes are strongly evident.