Dalit Leaders

A Shiv Sena leader and several others were booked in Thane for allegedly attacking some people and preventing them from entering a temple, a police official said on Thursday.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has shredded Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's comments that there are no "Dalit and adivasi" in the list of the beauty pageant Miss India as something that can only come from a "bal buddhi (juvenile)".

A Gujarat Congress leader was booked on Saturday for allegedly insulting and causing injuries to a Dalit woman state intelligence bureau official by pulling the chair from under her, police said.

Former BSP leader Raaj Kumar Anand, who was the Social Welfare Minister in the AAP government before joining Mayawati's party in May, on Wednesday joined the BJP.

NCP legislator Amol Mitkari on Saturday advocated an alliance with the Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) for the Maharashtra assembly elections.

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.

Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday demanded that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi apologise for "politicising" the suicide of Rohith Vemula as police in a state ruled by his own party have now said that "it was not a Dalit issue".

Lambasting PCC Chief Jitu Patwari for his "derogatory" remark against a Dalit woman BJP leader, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Friday that the Congress doesn't respect women and has a habit of "using and throwing away."

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that it is clear from the statements of BJP leaders that their objective is to destroy democracy by changing the Constitution and "snatch away" the reservation of Dalits, backward classes and tribals.

BSP leaders, in a last-ditch effort to salvage their political futures, are fleeing to safer havens, leaving the once formidable party in a state of deep limbo.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fired a fresh salvo at the BJP over the 'Pran Pratishtha' event at Ayodhya's Ram Temple, claiming that the OBCs, Dalits, and backward classes were nowhere to be seen during the mega event.

Former Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar, who recently quit the Aam Aadmi Party, joined the BJP on Saturday as the ruling party looks to broaden its support base in the state with the induction of the Dalit leader.

AAP's plans for the Haryana election later this year, and a potential seat-share deal with the Congress before the general election in April/May, hit a roadblock Thursday after Ashok Tanwar, its Dalit face, resigned.

A Samajwadi Party leader has come under police scrutiny for allegedly calling for burning down the house of a BJP member who reportedly thrashed Dalit councillors from opposition parties in a Meerut Municipal Corporation Board meeting.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the OBCs, Dalits and tribals do not have enough representation in many sectors and reiterated that a caste census will be conducted if the Opposition's INDIA alliance came to power.

A Shiv Sena leader and several others were booked in Thane for allegedly attacking some people and preventing them from entering a temple, a police official said on Thursday.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has shredded Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's comments that there are no "Dalit and adivasi" in the list of the beauty pageant Miss India as something that can only come from a "bal buddhi (juvenile)".

A Gujarat Congress leader was booked on Saturday for allegedly insulting and causing injuries to a Dalit woman state intelligence bureau official by pulling the chair from under her, police said.

Former BSP leader Raaj Kumar Anand, who was the Social Welfare Minister in the AAP government before joining Mayawati's party in May, on Wednesday joined the BJP.

NCP legislator Amol Mitkari on Saturday advocated an alliance with the Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) for the Maharashtra assembly elections.

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.

Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday demanded that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi apologise for "politicising" the suicide of Rohith Vemula as police in a state ruled by his own party have now said that "it was not a Dalit issue".

Lambasting PCC Chief Jitu Patwari for his "derogatory" remark against a Dalit woman BJP leader, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Friday that the Congress doesn't respect women and has a habit of "using and throwing away."

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that it is clear from the statements of BJP leaders that their objective is to destroy democracy by changing the Constitution and "snatch away" the reservation of Dalits, backward classes and tribals.

BSP leaders, in a last-ditch effort to salvage their political futures, are fleeing to safer havens, leaving the once formidable party in a state of deep limbo.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fired a fresh salvo at the BJP over the 'Pran Pratishtha' event at Ayodhya's Ram Temple, claiming that the OBCs, Dalits, and backward classes were nowhere to be seen during the mega event.

Former Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar, who recently quit the Aam Aadmi Party, joined the BJP on Saturday as the ruling party looks to broaden its support base in the state with the induction of the Dalit leader.

AAP's plans for the Haryana election later this year, and a potential seat-share deal with the Congress before the general election in April/May, hit a roadblock Thursday after Ashok Tanwar, its Dalit face, resigned.

A Samajwadi Party leader has come under police scrutiny for allegedly calling for burning down the house of a BJP member who reportedly thrashed Dalit councillors from opposition parties in a Meerut Municipal Corporation Board meeting.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the OBCs, Dalits and tribals do not have enough representation in many sectors and reiterated that a caste census will be conducted if the Opposition's INDIA alliance came to power.