(in South Asia) a group of people who can be relied upon to vote together in support of the same party.
（印度次大陆的）选票库（会投同一政党支持票的群体）
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Congress can always retrieve its formidable vote bank among minorities, Dalits and forward castes by some good planning and homework.
The Dalit and Muslim vote banks had favoured the Congress till the 1984 elections, by and large.
They have been busy abolishing the people when and wherever they suspect them not to have been their vote bank.
It is nevertheless a precarious identity which could easily become the victim of electioneering vote banks that promote and provoke divisions and sub divisions of caste and creed.
There are 140 million of them, so they have political value as a vote bank.
The political fortunes of the Congress have suffered badly as major groups in its traditional vote bank have been lost to emerging regional and caste-based parties, such as the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party.
Muslims have never been a homogenous mass as many political leaders reduced them to for their own vote bank politics.
Of all these vote banks, minority vote bank has been one of the hottest topics of political discussion in the last decade or so.
Religion has become a commodity that is being sold in our cities, towns and villages, and vote banks are the institutions, which exchange votes with power.
The minorities, once their loyal vote bank, were disenchanted with the party, as were large sections of the young and the less educated.
The Congress has successfully used the Muslims as a vote bank without bothering about their welfare, while the BJP is seeking their trust.
Also there are issues like illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India, who are being used by Indian politicians as vote banks.
Politicians robbed of economic decision-making organize their vote banks along lines of religious and cultural difference, promoting fear and hatred.
The Forest Department is powerless to evict them since local politicians, smelling a profitable vote bank, have rallied to the squatters' cause.
Kashmiri Hindus need to create their own political clout by creating their own vote bank.
The only to do this is to become a significant mass, a body whose opinions they cannot ignore, a body that reflects sentiments of a significant vote bank.
Minorities have only been used as vote bank by central and state governments.
He also agreed with them that for all these years the secular parties have used the Muslims as a vote bank to further their political ends.