The Dalits who found the leveraging of economic advantage a primary programme for their upliftment subscribed to the policies of the ruling Congress Party despite its casteist make-up. Each Dalit ghetto in India has a Dalit Congressperson. The Congress Party worker is enamoured of the promises of neo-liberalism and thus s/he acts on the orders of rich landlords who are by default Congress supporters and who have profited out of its successive regimes.
