Kariya Munda is one of the most distinguished tribal faces of the Bharatiya Janata Party: he has been a member of the Lok Sabha eight times, a Union Minister several times, and served as the Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha. When he was denied a ticket for the 2019 general elections, it appeared – going by the way he expressed his displeasure – that the party had limited his activity in national politics given his advancing age.