Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that the government henceforth will focus on 'four new castes': women, poor, youth and farmers. Such redefining by BJP-RSS is aimed at homogenising Hindu community and to blunt opposition's social justice politics.

Six BRS MLAs have defected to the Congress so far, and more crossovers are expected. The developments from Telangana indicate that the Congress’s tall talk about 'save constitution' is nothing more than hollow rhetoric.