Caste-based Reservations

Launching a scathing attack on Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said an INDIA ally is talking about providing "full reservation" to Muslims and depriving people of other backward communities

The Congress will remove the Supreme Court-mandated 50 per cent cap on caste-based reservation and increase quota benefits for people from Dalit, backward and tribal communities, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said today.

As the Great Indian Election began with 102 seats in 21 states and Union Territories polling in the first phase, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the BJP will never change the caste-based reservation policy and won't let anyone else touch it either

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has alleged a conspiracy by RSS-BJP to do away with caste-based reservation in higher education and said the Congress "will never let this happen".

Puducherry's lone woman legislator, S Chandira Priyanga, resigned as a minister from the AINRC-BJP government alleging gender and caste-based discrimination.

A Congress Working Committee meeting is likely to be held on October 9 in Delhi, to discuss various issues from the Women Reservation Act to the caste-based census, sources said on Wednesday.

The Congress on Monday accused the government of resorting to caste-based politics to attack the Opposition and resisting a socio-economic and caste census in the country.

The Odisha assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to increase the reservation ceiling beyond 50 per cent and conduct a caste-based census in the state.

Gujarat independent MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani said on Sunday that the Centre's move to provide 10 per cent quota to the upper-caste poor is a step towards realizing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) agenda to remove caste-based reservations from the system.

Union minister Uma Bharti said on Thursday that caste-based reservations cannot be abolished, answering a question about the agitation by some upper caste organisations in Madhya Pradesh against Parliament's amendment of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that no one has enough power to end reservation for Dalits and backward classes in education and government jobs.

As messages about Bharat Bandh began circulating on WhatsApp, the union home ministry asked states to be on alert. The call for shutdown, exactly a week after Dalit groups' country-wide strike and violence, appears to be a protest against caste-based reservation in jobs and education.

The Union home ministry has advised all states to strengthen security and check any possible violence after certain groups called for a Bharat Bandh today against caste-based reservation in jobs and education. While calls for the bandh are being circulated on social media, no group has yet come forward to make it official. The Home Ministry's advis...

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sitasaran Sharma on Wednesday asked leaders of the treasury and opposition benches to meet him and find an amicable solution to end the row over a question in Class 12 Board exam Hindi paper which had an essay on 'caste-based reservation posing danger to the country'.

BJP chief Amit Shah, who attacked rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav for most part of a speech to party workers in Bihar's Begusarai today, had to go on the defensive on the issue of caste-based reservations, emphasising that his party supports affirmative action.

Launching a scathing attack on Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said an INDIA ally is talking about providing "full reservation" to Muslims and depriving people of other backward communities

The Congress will remove the Supreme Court-mandated 50 per cent cap on caste-based reservation and increase quota benefits for people from Dalit, backward and tribal communities, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said today.

As the Great Indian Election began with 102 seats in 21 states and Union Territories polling in the first phase, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the BJP will never change the caste-based reservation policy and won't let anyone else touch it either

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has alleged a conspiracy by RSS-BJP to do away with caste-based reservation in higher education and said the Congress "will never let this happen".

Puducherry's lone woman legislator, S Chandira Priyanga, resigned as a minister from the AINRC-BJP government alleging gender and caste-based discrimination.

A Congress Working Committee meeting is likely to be held on October 9 in Delhi, to discuss various issues from the Women Reservation Act to the caste-based census, sources said on Wednesday.

The Congress on Monday accused the government of resorting to caste-based politics to attack the Opposition and resisting a socio-economic and caste census in the country.

The Odisha assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to increase the reservation ceiling beyond 50 per cent and conduct a caste-based census in the state.

Gujarat independent MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani said on Sunday that the Centre's move to provide 10 per cent quota to the upper-caste poor is a step towards realizing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) agenda to remove caste-based reservations from the system.

Union minister Uma Bharti said on Thursday that caste-based reservations cannot be abolished, answering a question about the agitation by some upper caste organisations in Madhya Pradesh against Parliament's amendment of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that no one has enough power to end reservation for Dalits and backward classes in education and government jobs.

As messages about Bharat Bandh began circulating on WhatsApp, the union home ministry asked states to be on alert. The call for shutdown, exactly a week after Dalit groups' country-wide strike and violence, appears to be a protest against caste-based reservation in jobs and education.

The Union home ministry has advised all states to strengthen security and check any possible violence after certain groups called for a Bharat Bandh today against caste-based reservation in jobs and education. While calls for the bandh are being circulated on social media, no group has yet come forward to make it official. The Home Ministry's advis...

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sitasaran Sharma on Wednesday asked leaders of the treasury and opposition benches to meet him and find an amicable solution to end the row over a question in Class 12 Board exam Hindi paper which had an essay on 'caste-based reservation posing danger to the country'.

BJP chief Amit Shah, who attacked rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav for most part of a speech to party workers in Bihar's Begusarai today, had to go on the defensive on the issue of caste-based reservations, emphasising that his party supports affirmative action.