Brahmins In Up

Jitin Prasada was once considered as among Rahul Gandhi's 'young Turks' and was a minister in successive Manmohan Singh governments but defected from the Congress to the BJP in 2021, where he has again established himself as a prominent Brahmin face

While Banias remain firmly with the BJP, Brahmins are divided between the two candidates from their community.

On the occasion of Parshuram Jayanti Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said his government would set up a 'Brahmin Kalyan Board' and include lessons about the mythological figure in the state's school syllabus till Class VIII.

Brajesh Pathak, who was appointed as a deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, has been projected as a prominent Brahmin face in the BJP.

Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in later today for a record second term as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. Ahead of the grand ceremony, a meeting at his home with some newly-elected MLAs and others triggered speculation about his new ministers.

As political parties compete to woo Brahmins through outreach programmes ahead of the 2022 Assembly polls, supporters of the Samajwadi Party have gone a step further.

The BJP's Brahmin outreach programme in UP drew flak from the Opposition with the BSP and the Congress alleging the community faced "oppression" in the past four years of BJP rule, and the party is remembering them now with an eye on the polls.

Former Congress leader Jitin Prasada, side-lined Brahmin leader Laxmikant Bajpai and AK Sharma, a close confidante of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are among faces being considered for a cabinet expansion in Uttar Pradesh where the BJP is keen to bal

With an eye on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party will be holding a series of meeting of intellectuals as part of its Brahmin outreach programme.

BSP chief Mayawati today accused the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of "misleading" the people - and in the process made attempts to connect with the Brahmin community, as she began her party's campaign for assembly elections scheduled for next year

Yogi Adityanath, who has been campaigning for the ruling BJP in states where elections are being held, has been criticized by the opposition for his comment on Lord Hanuman in Rajasthan. Now, a minister in his government has also taken strong objection to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's remark.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has kicked up a social media storm in India after a picture of him with a placard saying "smash Brahminical patriarchy" went viral in one of the company's fastest-growing markets.

Perhaps more than anyone else, it is Adityanath who has the most to lose in this election.

"Tilak lagega haathi par, baaki sab baishaki par (The elephant will get the votes, the rest will be on crutches)": With months to go for assembly elections, it was this slogan that kickstarted a series of Brahmin sabhas or meetings for Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh.

Vijay Deewan, 59, says he has no caste, no religion. But on much prodding he said that his mother and father were Brahmins. For the son of a Brahmin family to take up this profession in 1982, the resolve he must have had to annihilate the poison of India's caste system is something you can only imagine. It was this that made me think that amid the ...

Jitin Prasada was once considered as among Rahul Gandhi's 'young Turks' and was a minister in successive Manmohan Singh governments but defected from the Congress to the BJP in 2021, where he has again established himself as a prominent Brahmin face

While Banias remain firmly with the BJP, Brahmins are divided between the two candidates from their community.

On the occasion of Parshuram Jayanti Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said his government would set up a 'Brahmin Kalyan Board' and include lessons about the mythological figure in the state's school syllabus till Class VIII.

Brajesh Pathak, who was appointed as a deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, has been projected as a prominent Brahmin face in the BJP.

Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in later today for a record second term as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. Ahead of the grand ceremony, a meeting at his home with some newly-elected MLAs and others triggered speculation about his new ministers.

As political parties compete to woo Brahmins through outreach programmes ahead of the 2022 Assembly polls, supporters of the Samajwadi Party have gone a step further.

The BJP's Brahmin outreach programme in UP drew flak from the Opposition with the BSP and the Congress alleging the community faced "oppression" in the past four years of BJP rule, and the party is remembering them now with an eye on the polls.

Former Congress leader Jitin Prasada, side-lined Brahmin leader Laxmikant Bajpai and AK Sharma, a close confidante of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are among faces being considered for a cabinet expansion in Uttar Pradesh where the BJP is keen to bal

With an eye on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party will be holding a series of meeting of intellectuals as part of its Brahmin outreach programme.

BSP chief Mayawati today accused the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of "misleading" the people - and in the process made attempts to connect with the Brahmin community, as she began her party's campaign for assembly elections scheduled for next year

Yogi Adityanath, who has been campaigning for the ruling BJP in states where elections are being held, has been criticized by the opposition for his comment on Lord Hanuman in Rajasthan. Now, a minister in his government has also taken strong objection to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's remark.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has kicked up a social media storm in India after a picture of him with a placard saying "smash Brahminical patriarchy" went viral in one of the company's fastest-growing markets.

Perhaps more than anyone else, it is Adityanath who has the most to lose in this election.

"Tilak lagega haathi par, baaki sab baishaki par (The elephant will get the votes, the rest will be on crutches)": With months to go for assembly elections, it was this slogan that kickstarted a series of Brahmin sabhas or meetings for Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh.

Vijay Deewan, 59, says he has no caste, no religion. But on much prodding he said that his mother and father were Brahmins. For the son of a Brahmin family to take up this profession in 1982, the resolve he must have had to annihilate the poison of India's caste system is something you can only imagine. It was this that made me think that amid the ...