The upper-caste, brahmanical ideology of the RSS that informs the BJP does not allow the party to provide substantial benefits to the OBC-Dalits, and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav is diligently trying to make this election a contest between the OBC-Dalits and the BJP’s upper-caste domination. But would this prove to be a tall order for the SP without the BSP’s backing? asks Rupesh Ranjan