Congress is set to recast its organisational orientation along urban and rural lines accepting that the demography and aspirations in villages and towns are too different to continue with a uniform approach...K. Raju – head of AICC’s Scheduled Castes department, told TOI that the big contemporary change in metros was the collapse of caste identity requiring Congress to win the confidence of urban poor and elite alike. 

"It is good that caste is losing hold in metros. We cannot depend on caste identities. We have to look at urban livelihoods, security and employment.”

February 23, 2015