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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Mahesh Langa

2022 Gujarat Assembly elections | BJP and Congress compete to woo OBC voters

For two weeks now, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has been organising convention of one sub group of an OBC community daily in a bid to woo the smaller communities ahead of the State Assembly polls. 

So far, he held the convention for over a dozen sub-castes belonging to the OBC as the ruling party is apparently trying to create divisions among the OBC block that comprises over 140 different communities belonging to both Hindu and Muslims and identified as socially and educationally backward castes. 

In the convention, the community leaders felicitate the Chief Minister and assure support to the ruling party while the CM talked about the welfare measures of the Modi government and how the central and State BJP governments worked in tandem for development and welfare of the various communities. 

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