Mahadalits

Bihar Police on Friday claimed to have arrested the perpetrator of the gang rape of two Mahadalit minor girls near Patna, one of whom was found dead.

Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan has trashed suggestions that he parted ways with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) because of differences over seat-sharing for the Bihar assembly election, and accused the Chief Minister of harming the Dalit community by creating a sub-group of Mahadalits.

Unidentified persons attempted to gouge out an eye of a Mahadalit woman in Bihar's Gaya district, inflicting severe damages to it in the process, the police said.

A tea-seller who donates his profits for the education of slum children, a doctor couple who charge Re 1 from patients and a retired IPS officer who set up a school for a Mahadalit community are among the "unsung heroes" who were given the Padma awards this year.

The Constitutional Amendment Bill to ensure 10% reservation in education and government jobs for the economically weak may have only crossed its first legislative hurdle, but it has already opened a pandora's box of similar demands from various political parties in the country.

A man from Mahadalit caste was shot dead for allegedly intruding into a marriage procession of another caste and dancing at a village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, a senior police officer said on Friday.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said all schemes for 'Mahadalits' in the state will now be extended to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) categories.

Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today said neither he nor his family members will avail of reservation benefits in the next general and assembly elections.

BJP has not given any indication to its ally and mahadalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi that he will be its chief minister candidate if the party-led NDA wins the Bihar Assembly elections, party president Amit Shah said today.

As the election campaign intensifies in Bihar, a battle between two top Mahadalit leaders, former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and speaker in the outgoing assembly, Uday Narain Chaudhary, in central Bihar is turning out to be one of the most closely fought duel in these elections.

Calling himself the "most popular campaigner" among the BJP's allies in Bihar polls, mahadalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi today asserted his party's strike rate will be better than all other NDA constituents.

In a please-all vision document for Bihar, the BJP today announced scooties for girl students who score well, colour TVs for the dalits and mahadalits - the most underprivileged of the population - and cheaper education loans.

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.

NDA's Bihar allies have failed to clinch a seat-sharing deal till late evening with Mahadalit leader and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi playing hardball, demanding more seats than what has been offered by the alliance spearhead BJP.

Bihar Police on Friday claimed to have arrested the perpetrator of the gang rape of two Mahadalit minor girls near Patna, one of whom was found dead.

Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan has trashed suggestions that he parted ways with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) because of differences over seat-sharing for the Bihar assembly election, and accused the Chief Minister of harming the Dalit community by creating a sub-group of Mahadalits.

Unidentified persons attempted to gouge out an eye of a Mahadalit woman in Bihar's Gaya district, inflicting severe damages to it in the process, the police said.

A tea-seller who donates his profits for the education of slum children, a doctor couple who charge Re 1 from patients and a retired IPS officer who set up a school for a Mahadalit community are among the "unsung heroes" who were given the Padma awards this year.

The Constitutional Amendment Bill to ensure 10% reservation in education and government jobs for the economically weak may have only crossed its first legislative hurdle, but it has already opened a pandora's box of similar demands from various political parties in the country.

A man from Mahadalit caste was shot dead for allegedly intruding into a marriage procession of another caste and dancing at a village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, a senior police officer said on Friday.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said all schemes for 'Mahadalits' in the state will now be extended to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) categories.

Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today said neither he nor his family members will avail of reservation benefits in the next general and assembly elections.

BJP has not given any indication to its ally and mahadalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi that he will be its chief minister candidate if the party-led NDA wins the Bihar Assembly elections, party president Amit Shah said today.

As the election campaign intensifies in Bihar, a battle between two top Mahadalit leaders, former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and speaker in the outgoing assembly, Uday Narain Chaudhary, in central Bihar is turning out to be one of the most closely fought duel in these elections.

Calling himself the "most popular campaigner" among the BJP's allies in Bihar polls, mahadalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi today asserted his party's strike rate will be better than all other NDA constituents.

In a please-all vision document for Bihar, the BJP today announced scooties for girl students who score well, colour TVs for the dalits and mahadalits - the most underprivileged of the population - and cheaper education loans.

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.

NDA's Bihar allies have failed to clinch a seat-sharing deal till late evening with Mahadalit leader and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi playing hardball, demanding more seats than what has been offered by the alliance spearhead BJP.