Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa, UP- Election 2007 - 2

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Always failed pollster Yogender Yadav, Congress mouth Piece came up with his own analysis - he is still trying to justify, its Muslim not Brahmins.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Second, it was not just the Brahmins but all of what Mayawati called the “upper caste samaj”. The BSP vote share among various upper castes was not very different: 17 per cent among Brahmins, 12 per cent among Rajputs, 14 per cent among Vaishyas and 16 per cent among other upper castes. This was a three-fold increase over the BSP’s vote share in this segment in the last election. Yet let us not forget that, in all, upper castes comprised only about one-tenth of the BSP’s voters.

Third, the bulk of the BSP’s non-dalit votes came not from the upper castes but from the lower OBCs. If you exclude the dominant peasant communities like the Yadavs, Kurmis and Lodhs, the BSP was the first preference of the rest of the OBCs.

The BSP got on an average more than 30 per cent of the votes in this group. The non-dominant OBCs contributed about one-fifth to the total votes of the BSP, twice as much as the upper castes. The BSP also got about 17 per cent votes among the Muslims, a little more than it did among all the upper castes.
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