Dalit President in Congress

Kharge is the third Dalit Congress President after Late D Sanjivaya (1962) and the Late Jagjivan Ram( 1969). The election of Kharge is going to have a positive impact on the coming state elections of Karnataka source says. The election will ease the situation for the Congress party in Gujrat. The Gujrat state is also to go for election soon. The Congress party is trying to bring back 8% Dalits of the state in their favour source says. Out of 182 seats, 13 seats are reserved seats and Dalits are influencing another 12-seat source says. Dalits are divided into three major subcastes,i.e. Bankar, Rohit and Balmiki. BJP is influencing Bankers but strangely during the last 27 years of BJP rule, these three sub-castes supported proportionately both parties say. BJP is also attempting to please the Dalits by distributing constitutional posts source says. The Congress party is trying to improve the voting percentage amongst Dalits where the population is more than 10% source says. In 1995, BJP gained the maximum number of seats out of 13 reserved seats, in 2007 and 2012 BJP bagged 11 and 10 seats respectively and congress 2 and 3 respectively source says. In 2017 Congress bagged 5 seats and BJP was restricted to 7 seats, one seat went to a Congress-supported independent candidate source says. Going by statics performance of Congress is not very poor in recent elections and the arrival of the Dalit president of the party source says congress stands a good chance on reserved seats.