India, Jan. 7 -- The first part of this two-part series showed that the national party presidents of both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress have predominantly been from non-Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) backgrounds. In fact, just one sub-caste - Brahmin - dominates the list of this highest organizational post of the two parties. However, this is less so the case in the case of at least the current state/UT presidents. HT checked this by creating a caste database of the 28 state presidents and 3 presidents of UTs with a legislative assembly listed on the websites of the two parties.

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