Bihar Dalit Votes

PM Narendra Modi today vowed to thwart alleged attempts to rob Dalits and backward classes of reservations by the INDIA bloc which he accused of "enslavement" and performing "mujra" for Muslim vote bank.

Balwant Singh has been accused of blaming the Dalit community for his loss and beating up two people from the community, Anil Kumar and Manjeet Kumar, as they allegedly did not vote for him.

The road to re-election for the BJP in 2019 doesn't just lead through Uttar Pradesh but Bihar too. But five years since the party won 22 out of the state's 40 seats in the national polls, its relationship status with the group that powered its victory - the 16 per cent Dalits - is "complicated". The community's disenchantment with the BJP threatens...

Ram Nath Kovind has won the presidential election after securing over two-thirds of the total electoral college votes. Mr Kovind will be sworn-in as the 14th President of India on July 25. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Ram Nath Kovind for winning the presidential election. PM Modi tweeted: "Congratulations to Shri Ram Nath Kovind Ji on...

Presidential elections for the 14th President of India will be held on July 17, 2017. BJP-led National Democratic Alliance's (NDA's) candidate for the post of President is former Bihar Governor Ramnath Kovind and Opposition's candidate is former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar. The voting will be held between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm. Prime Minister Nare...

The choice of Meira Kumar who is from Bihar and a Jatav Dalit has certainly put Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in a tight spot politically which was the intent of Sonia Gandhi and RJD chief, Lalu Yadav, who are upset with Nitish Kumar's "defection" in saying his party will vote for Kovind.

Meira Kumar, former Lok Sabha Speaker, will be the opposition's candidate for President against the BJP's nominee, Ram Nath Kovind. It was decided at a meeting of 17 parties chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Thursday evening. As expected, the Opposition has turned the presidential election into a Dalit vs Dalit contest and Lalu...

Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi, two prominent Dalit leaders on whom BJP was banking to bring home for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nearly 16 per cent votes of schedule castes, failed to deliver in the Bihar elections, as reflected in the results.

The defeat of the BJP in the Bihar assembly elections is certain since the poor, Dalits, OBCs, EBCs and Muslims had decided to vote for the 'Grand Alliance' of Janata Dal-United, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said today.

Hitting back at BJP over its jibe of return of "jungle raj" in Bihar if the grand alliance is voted to power in the state, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned whether there was 'Mangal raj' in Haryana where two children of a Dalit family were allegedly burnt to death.

Condemning the attack on a Dalit family in Haryana, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today charged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad with shedding 'fake tears' on the incident apparently with an eye to get the sizeable votes of Dalits in Bihar assembly polls.

Attacking saffron party over Mohan Bhagwat's remark, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said the RSS chief's call for a review of the reservation policy has "sealed" the fate of the BJP. He claimed that Janata Dal will emerge triumphant in "Mandal versus Kamandal" politics, as in 1995 Bihar polls.

Unfazed by Election Commission scanner for casteist remark, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today made a blistering attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and said that he would not sit quietly in waging battle for the backwards, Dalits and poor even if they decide to "hang" him.

Hours after publicly celebrating with sweets a seat-sharing deal for Bihar that followed intense negotiations, the BJP was still left with an ally that was less than pleased.

Hours after publicly celebrating a seat-sharing deal for Bihar that involved placating one ally with a few more seats, the BJP was reported to be confronting another sulking ally.

PM Narendra Modi today vowed to thwart alleged attempts to rob Dalits and backward classes of reservations by the INDIA bloc which he accused of "enslavement" and performing "mujra" for Muslim vote bank.

Balwant Singh has been accused of blaming the Dalit community for his loss and beating up two people from the community, Anil Kumar and Manjeet Kumar, as they allegedly did not vote for him.

The road to re-election for the BJP in 2019 doesn't just lead through Uttar Pradesh but Bihar too. But five years since the party won 22 out of the state's 40 seats in the national polls, its relationship status with the group that powered its victory - the 16 per cent Dalits - is "complicated". The community's disenchantment with the BJP threatens...

Ram Nath Kovind has won the presidential election after securing over two-thirds of the total electoral college votes. Mr Kovind will be sworn-in as the 14th President of India on July 25. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Ram Nath Kovind for winning the presidential election. PM Modi tweeted: "Congratulations to Shri Ram Nath Kovind Ji on...

Presidential elections for the 14th President of India will be held on July 17, 2017. BJP-led National Democratic Alliance's (NDA's) candidate for the post of President is former Bihar Governor Ramnath Kovind and Opposition's candidate is former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar. The voting will be held between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm. Prime Minister Nare...

The choice of Meira Kumar who is from Bihar and a Jatav Dalit has certainly put Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in a tight spot politically which was the intent of Sonia Gandhi and RJD chief, Lalu Yadav, who are upset with Nitish Kumar's "defection" in saying his party will vote for Kovind.

Meira Kumar, former Lok Sabha Speaker, will be the opposition's candidate for President against the BJP's nominee, Ram Nath Kovind. It was decided at a meeting of 17 parties chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Thursday evening. As expected, the Opposition has turned the presidential election into a Dalit vs Dalit contest and Lalu...

Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi, two prominent Dalit leaders on whom BJP was banking to bring home for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nearly 16 per cent votes of schedule castes, failed to deliver in the Bihar elections, as reflected in the results.

The defeat of the BJP in the Bihar assembly elections is certain since the poor, Dalits, OBCs, EBCs and Muslims had decided to vote for the 'Grand Alliance' of Janata Dal-United, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said today.

Hitting back at BJP over its jibe of return of "jungle raj" in Bihar if the grand alliance is voted to power in the state, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned whether there was 'Mangal raj' in Haryana where two children of a Dalit family were allegedly burnt to death.

Condemning the attack on a Dalit family in Haryana, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today charged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad with shedding 'fake tears' on the incident apparently with an eye to get the sizeable votes of Dalits in Bihar assembly polls.

Attacking saffron party over Mohan Bhagwat's remark, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said the RSS chief's call for a review of the reservation policy has "sealed" the fate of the BJP. He claimed that Janata Dal will emerge triumphant in "Mandal versus Kamandal" politics, as in 1995 Bihar polls.

Unfazed by Election Commission scanner for casteist remark, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today made a blistering attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and said that he would not sit quietly in waging battle for the backwards, Dalits and poor even if they decide to "hang" him.

Hours after publicly celebrating with sweets a seat-sharing deal for Bihar that followed intense negotiations, the BJP was still left with an ally that was less than pleased.

Hours after publicly celebrating a seat-sharing deal for Bihar that involved placating one ally with a few more seats, the BJP was reported to be confronting another sulking ally.