BJP, Congress engage in all-out war over Ambedkar issue, why Babasaheb matters in politics | EXPLAINED
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BJP, Congress engage in all-out war over Ambedkar issue, why Babasaheb matters in politics | EXPLAINED

India TV News  

Ambedkar row: The Parliament turned into a battleground on Thursday as protests led by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party MPs and leaders of the INDIA bloc, including Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi intensified over over the Ambedkar row. Protests against Amit Shah All the political slugfest started with Home Minister Amit Shah's statement on BR Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha during a debate on the Constitution. Congress distorted my statement: Amit Shah Hitting back at the Opposition, Shah on Wednesday accused the Congress of twisting facts and distorting his comments on Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha, asserting that it launched the malicious campaign after the discussion on the Constitution "established" the opposition party as being "anti-Ambedkar and anti-reservation". However, Lok Janshakti Party's Chirag Paswan, Republican Party of India 's Ramdas Athawale, Ambedkar's grandson Prakash Ambedkar with his Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi are working to strengthen Ambedkar's ideology in their respective states.

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Opinion: The fight for Ambedkar's legacy signifies a big churn in Dalit politics
15 hours, 24 minutes ago

Opinion: The fight for Ambedkar's legacy signifies a big churn in Dalit politics

India Today  

The treasury benches and the Opposition have been engaged in a war of words over Dr BR Ambedkar’s legacy in Parliament and outside. Setback and recovery In the 2024 general elections, the BJP lost three per cent support of Dalits and its allies lost two per cent. On the other hand, the Congress lost one per cent support but its …

Ambedkar statue vandalised in Ahmedabad amid controversy; Congress MLA Mevani warns agitation
15 hours, 24 minutes ago

Ambedkar statue vandalised in Ahmedabad amid controversy; Congress MLA Mevani warns agitation

New Indian Express  

"We have registered a complaint in the matter and are actively working to apprehend the accused," said Ahmedabad ACP Krunal Desai regarding the vandalism of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's statue in the Khokhra area. "The comments made by Home Minister Amit Shah against Babasaheb Ambedkar in Parliament have sparked widespread anger among Dalits across India and Gujarat," said Congress MLA Jignesh …

BJP, Congress Clash Over Dalit Votes, Ambedkar’s Legacy
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1 day, 21 hours ago

BJP, Congress Clash Over Dalit Votes, Ambedkar’s Legacy

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi:Behind the ongoing political battle over the alleged insult of B.R. Union home minister Amit Shah’s remark in the Rajya Sabha gave the Opposition an opportunity to whip up anti-BJP sentiments among the Dalits, the objective is clear — the Congress wants to further consolidate the 4 per cent Dalit votes it gained in the last general election over …

Rise & Rise of Ambedkar as an icon
2 days, 15 hours ago

Rise & Rise of Ambedkar as an icon

New Indian Express  

The fracas over an insult to Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar leading to fisticuffs between the members of the ruling coalition and the opposition within the parliament complex underlined two distinctive trends. Second, over the last few decades, Ambedkar has emerged as the only leader whom all political outfits - regional and national, cutting across ideological barriers - are competing to appropriate …

BJP’s Dalit Dilemma | Power Play by Anand Mishra
3 days, 2 hours ago

BJP’s Dalit Dilemma | Power Play by Anand Mishra

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 20, 2024 18:37 IST - 4 MINS READ Dear readers, What’s in a name? Nishikant Dubey of the BJP responded by filing a privilege notice against Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of showing a “criminally edited” version of Shah’s speech. BJP leaders shared photographs of the injured Sarangi and Rajput, insisting that “pictures don’t lie”, but refused to …

Ambedkar row: Opposition MPs hold protest against Amit Shah at Vijay Chowk
3 days, 9 hours ago

Ambedkar row: Opposition MPs hold protest against Amit Shah at Vijay Chowk

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Opposition MPs staged a protest on Friday, at Vijay Chowk in Delhi demanding Home Minister Amit Shah's apology and resignation for allegedly "insulting" BR Ambedkar. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also slammed the BJP over the FIR filed against the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, saying it "shows their desperation level". Priyanka …

Protests & Blood At Parliament As BJP, Congress Clash Over Amit Shah's Ambedkar Remark: Top Points
4 days, 8 hours ago

Protests & Blood At Parliament As BJP, Congress Clash Over Amit Shah's Ambedkar Remark: Top Points

ABP News  

Parliament was rocked with protests and bruises on Thursday as Congress and other INDIA bloc MPs agitated against Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his remarks against BR Ambedkar. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge were among the INDIA bloc MPs who protested outside the Parliament. Speaking in Rajya Sabha, the Union …

BJP MP Pratap Sarangi Injured After Rahul Gandhi 'Shoved' Him During Parliament Protest
4 days, 9 hours ago

BJP MP Pratap Sarangi Injured After Rahul Gandhi 'Shoved' Him During Parliament Protest

ABP News  

Parliament Winter Session: BJP MP Pratap Sarangi was injured during a protest on Parliament premises by both BJP and Congress over an "insult" to BR Ambedkar. "Rahul Gandhi pushed an MP who fell on me after which I fell down.I was standing near the stairs when Rahul Gandhi came and pushed an MP who then fell on me," Sarangi said. …

Why Ambedkar issue has got BJP scrambling
4 days, 15 hours ago

Why Ambedkar issue has got BJP scrambling

India Today  

There are very few leaders who reached the status of a demigod, like Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar has. On Wednesday, a day after the remark by Shah in the Rajya Sabha, the entire BJP brass, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah himself, stepped in to counter the Opposition's allegations of "insulting Babasaheb". AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal responded to Prime …

BJP, INDIA bloc protest showdown in Parliament amid Ambedkar row
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4 days, 15 hours ago

BJP, INDIA bloc protest showdown in Parliament amid Ambedkar row

India Today  

The Parliament premises on Thursday turned into a stage for high-voltage political drama as the BJP and Congress held simultaneous protests, targeting each other over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks on BR Ambedkar in Parliament. Rahul Gandhi denied the allegations, claiming instead that the BJP had pushed Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and blocked his own entry at the Parliament …

Kamal Hassan on Ambedkar row: Will not tolerate his legacy being tarnished
4 days, 15 hours ago

Kamal Hassan on Ambedkar row: Will not tolerate his legacy being tarnished

India Today  

Amid a row over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remark on Dr BR Ambedkar, actor-turned-politician Kamal Hassan on Thursday said that the ideas crafted by the architect of India's Constitution should inspire progress, rather than be misused to offend people's sentiments. This remark came as Parliament witnessed a high-voltage drama, with BJP and INDIA bloc MPs holding protests over Amit …

Congress and its rotten ecosystem: PM hits back as BR Ambedkar row intensifies
5 days, 15 hours ago

Congress and its rotten ecosystem: PM hits back as BR Ambedkar row intensifies

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the Congress and its "rotten ecosystem" of insulting BR Ambedkar for several years as he listed the party's several "sins" towards the architect of the Indian Constitution. "If the Congress and its rotten ecosystem think their malicious lies can hide their misdeeds of several years, especially their insult towards Dr. Ambedkar, they are …

A Precursory Look at Community-wise Voting in Maharashtra and Jharkhand
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4 weeks, 1 day ago

A Precursory Look at Community-wise Voting in Maharashtra and Jharkhand

The Quint  

In Maharashtra, caste is the very foundation of the political battleground. The OBCs, who constitute 38 percent of the state’s population, played a decisive role in this election, won by the Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, the Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar's NCP. Despite agitation over the reservation and dissatisfaction with unresolved demands, the BJP managed to retain a significant …

Keeping up with UP: Is politics in Uttar Pradesh turning bipolar?
1 month ago

Keeping up with UP: Is politics in Uttar Pradesh turning bipolar?

Hindustan Times  

Elections in Uttar Pradesh are turning bipolar and are now fought between two coalitions led by the Bhartiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party, compelling smaller parties to ride piggyback on either of the two ideological combinations, which have vertically divided the state. Since 2014, a resurgent BJP and the unswerving SP have been on a growth trajectory, both in …

Another Ambedkar kin hopes to revive RPI in Maharashtra, salvage political career
3 months ago

Another Ambedkar kin hopes to revive RPI in Maharashtra, salvage political career

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Keen to resurrect his lacklusture political career, 42-year-old Rajratna Ashok Ambedkar, the great grandson of BR Ambedkar’s elder brother Anandrao Ambedkar, has staked claim to reviving the Republican Party of India as envisioned by his illustrious ancestor before his death on December 6, 1956. Rajratna Ashok Ambedkar Rajratna has approached the election commission with an application to register a …

Chandigarh Diary | Row over Shah’s remark on OBC quota
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Chandigarh Diary | Row over Shah’s remark on OBC quota

New Indian Express  

During a recent address at a ‘Backward Classes Samman Sammelan’ in Mahendragarh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah stirred a controversy by asserting that a Congress-led government in Haryana would transfer reservations meant for Other Backward Classes to Muslims. Amrita Warring’s political engagements Amrita Warring, wife of Punjab Congress President Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, has recently increased her political activities in …

Mandal for the Mandir | On BJP and the Dalit Vote
5 months, 1 week ago

Mandal for the Mandir | On BJP and the Dalit Vote

The Quint  

It caused quite a stir when the Bharatiya Janata Party lost the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat and even the seats around it. In the 1990s, Mandal politics dominated under the aegis of Kanshi Ram and Mulayam Singh Yadav. The slogan, Mile Mulayam Kanshi Ram, hawa mein uddh gaye Jai Shree Ram, gathered traction and defeated the Brahmanical forces behind the …

BJP gets a drubbing in all five Lok Sabha seats of Ayodhya division
6 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP gets a drubbing in all five Lok Sabha seats of Ayodhya division

Hindustan Times  

The inauguration of Ram temple in Ayodhya earlier this year was considered one of the defining emotive issues of 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Yet it did not convert into electoral dividends for the Bharatiya Janata Party as the party lost all five Lok Sabha seats of Ayodhya division, including the Faizabad constituency. As per political observers, the BJP’s failure to …

Lok Sabha Election is a Litmus Test for Uddhav's Experiments With His Shiv Sena
7 months, 1 week ago

Lok Sabha Election is a Litmus Test for Uddhav's Experiments With His Shiv Sena

The Quint  

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” The old adage perfectly sums up the current state of political affairs in the state of Maharashtra. While everything seems to be in a constant state of flux in the Western state, one thing that has remained constant is the age-old principle of Berjeche Rajkaran that has defined the politics …

Turmoil and test: On Haryana politics
7 months, 1 week ago

Turmoil and test: On Haryana politics

The Hindu  

Haryana is in political turmoil after three independent MLAs withdrew their support to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, and its former coalition partner, the Jannayak Janta Party, offered support to the Congress to form an alternative government. In the 90-member State Assembly, which currently has an effective strength of 88, the BJP government led by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini …

INDIA bloc candidate Amra Ram expects to regain lost ground for Left forces in Sikar
8 months ago

INDIA bloc candidate Amra Ram expects to regain lost ground for Left forces in Sikar

The Hindu  

In the hotbed of agrarian politics, once considered a bastion of Left parties, the election at the Sikar Lok Sabha seat in Rajasthan’s Shekhawati region has offered an opportunity to Communist Party of India leader Amra Ram to regain lost ground. As an Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance bloc candidate, Mr. Ram has reached out to the voters reminding them …

Prakash Ambedkar breaks away from MVA, fields 8 candidates
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Prakash Ambedkar breaks away from MVA, fields 8 candidates

Hindustan Times  

NAGPUR: In a major blow to the opposition unity within the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar on Wednesday announced the candidacy of eight individuals for Lok Sabha in the state. Ambedkar’s decision follows unsuccessful negotiations between the MVA and his party regarding seat-sharing arrangements in Maharashtra, which has 48 Lok Sabha constituencies, the second-highest after …

2024 Lok Sabha election | Prakash Ambedkar remains ambivalent over MVA tie-up; will clear stand on March 26
9 months ago

2024 Lok Sabha election | Prakash Ambedkar remains ambivalent over MVA tie-up; will clear stand on March 26

The Hindu  

Continuing to maintain an ambivalent stance towards forging an alliance with the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi president Prakash Ambedkar on Saturday said his party would announce its decision on March 26 on whether it would contest the Lok Sabha election independently or go along with the MVA. While Mr. Ambedkar hinted ominously that the VBA may not …

Bickering over seats, dissent rife in ruling, opposition alliances in state
9 months ago

Bickering over seats, dissent rife in ruling, opposition alliances in state

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: While both ruling and opposition alliances in Maharashtra are still on the negotiation tables before the final seat-share numbers can be revealed, infighting and voices of dissent have emerged from the districts over allotment of seats. Leaders from BJP have rebelled against its Madha MP Ranjitsinh Nimbalkar who was renominated, while over 200 local party workers in Raver, north …

Prakash Ambedkar continues to be a cipher for Maha Vikas Aghadi
9 months, 1 week ago

Prakash Ambedkar continues to be a cipher for Maha Vikas Aghadi

The Hindu  

The Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi continued to give headaches for the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, with Mr. Ambedkar on March 9 making clear he would neither participate in Congressman Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra nor join any of the Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar’s public meetings unless there was better coordination between the MVA parties and the …

Keeping up with UP | After Ram temple, BJP gets down to correcting its caste calculus
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Keeping up with UP | After Ram temple, BJP gets down to correcting its caste calculus

Hindustan Times  

Despite Modi’s guarantee and the Ram temple hype, the Bharatiya Janata Party is busy setting its caste calculus right in Uttar Pradesh where it is aiming for a 100% result for the National Democratic Alliance in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The BJP and its ally had won 64 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Lok Sabha election despite …

Lok Sabha polls | Prakash Ambedkar keeps MVA partners guessing on seat-sharing
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha polls | Prakash Ambedkar keeps MVA partners guessing on seat-sharing

The Hindu  

Despite the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi expressing confidence in taking along the Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi for the Lok Sabha election, Mr. Ambedkar continued to keep his alliance partners guessing while stating that his party was “still in doubt” whether it was indeed a constituent of the MVA coalition. Speaking in Akola, Mr. Ambedkar, a recent inductee into the …

BJP stresses need to break dynastic rule in Kalaburagi
9 months, 3 weeks ago

BJP stresses need to break dynastic rule in Kalaburagi

Deccan Chronicle  

Kalaburagi: The Bharatiya Janata Party, gearing up for the upcoming Parliamentary elections, raised its voice against the prevalence of dynastic rule in Kalaburagi. The BJP SC Morcha organized the 'Bheema Samavesha' at Dr. MS Pandit Rangamandira on Wednesday, where BJP state vice president N Mahesh expressed strong opposition to family-centric politics. Mahesh directed his criticism towards AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, …

The loneliness of being BSP
9 months, 3 weeks ago

The loneliness of being BSP

Hindustan Times  

The Bahujan Samaj Party seems poised to lose most of its MPs ahead of the general elections. The exits may be driven by the fear that there is no scope for a third alternative in this polarised elections, where the INDIA bloc, post the Samajwadi Party-Congress seat deal, is seen as the challenger to the BJP even as the BSP …

‘Congress leaders should be last ones to talk about Ambedkar’: CT Ravi hits back to Priyank Kharge in Keragodu flag row
10 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Congress leaders should be last ones to talk about Ambedkar’: CT Ravi hits back to Priyank Kharge in Keragodu flag row

Hindustan Times  

Bharatiya Janata Party Karnataka leader CT Ravi on Tuesday attacked Congress, saying that its leaders should be the last ones to talk about BR Ambedkar, chairman of the drafting committee of the Constitution of India. CT Ravi was reacting to Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge's post on X, where he alleged that the BJP placed religion above the nation and quoted …

BJP using religion to protect corporate forces and incite communal tensions, alleges CPI(M)
10 months, 4 weeks ago

BJP using religion to protect corporate forces and incite communal tensions, alleges CPI(M)

The Hindu  

The Communist Party of India has alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party is using religion as a tool to protect Adanis and Ambanis. Attempts were being made to instigate communal tensions across the country, including Andhra Pradesh, and Ayodhya Ram Mandir was a step in that direction, the party alleged. It was solely to protect the corporate forces like Ambani …

'Lord Ram not property of single party': Uddhav Thackeray targets Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde
10 months, 4 weeks ago

'Lord Ram not property of single party': Uddhav Thackeray targets Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde

India TV News  

Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday invoked king Vali from epic Ramayana to launch a veiled attack on Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde whom he accused of stealing the party founded by his father late Bal Thackeray, and also took on his former ally Bharatiya Janata Party, saying "Lord Ram is not the property of a single party". "We …

After the mandir, learning to speak
10 months, 4 weeks ago

After the mandir, learning to speak

Hindustan Times  

The inauguration of the Ram Mandir on Monday was marked by religious fervour. The confusion was most evident when the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust invited Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, who declined the invitation alleging that the BJP had turned it into a political event. On Monday, TMC leader Mamata Banerjee visited religious places of different faiths, held an interfaith rally …

Congress Government Must Fulfill Aspiration of Ambedkar: Bandi
1 year ago

Congress Government Must Fulfill Aspiration of Ambedkar: Bandi

Deccan Chronicle  

Karimnagar: BJP national general secretary and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar suggested the newly formed Congress government try to fulfill Dr B.R. “The BJP government granted loans without any assurance to around 1.25 lakh Dalits, who were then transformed into industrials to create work possibilities for others. The BJP government also elevated Dalit and tribal leaders to the position of …

'Disrespected Ambedkar But Roam Around Carrying His Photo': Shah's Salvo At Congress In MP's Shivpuri
1 year, 1 month ago

'Disrespected Ambedkar But Roam Around Carrying His Photo': Shah's Salvo At Congress In MP's Shivpuri

ABP News  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that the Congress practises the "4Cs" of corruption, commission, communalism, and criminalisation, and that the party disrespects eminent jurist and social reformer Babasaheb Ambedkar. Addressing a rally in Karera, Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, where elections will be held on November 17, Shah said that if the Congress wins power, it will end welfare …

JJP holds show of strength in Rajasthan’s Sikar ahead of poll
1 year, 2 months ago

JJP holds show of strength in Rajasthan’s Sikar ahead of poll

Hindustan Times  

The Jannayak Janta Party, the breakaway faction of the INLD and junior coalition partner of the BJP in Haryana, on Monday held a massive show of strength in Sikar of poll-bound Rajasthan. In his address, JJP chief Ajay Chautala reminded the crowd that he started his political career from Data Ramgarh constituency and became MLA twice in Rajasthan. The rally …

Smaller parties key to success of BJP’s ‘Mission 45’ in Maharashtra
1 year, 4 months ago

Smaller parties key to success of BJP’s ‘Mission 45’ in Maharashtra

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party might be in the driver’s seat in Maharashtra with the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party faction joining the ruling dispensation, but its ties with smaller parties will determine the success of ‘Mission 45’: the BJP’s aim of winning 45 out of the State’s 48 Lok Sabha seats in next year’s general election. Should they go solo, …

‘We are political untouchables for them’: AIMIM leader on not receiving invitation to Opposition meet
1 year, 5 months ago

‘We are political untouchables for them’: AIMIM leader on not receiving invitation to Opposition meet

Hindustan Times  

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen National Spokesperson Waris Pathan lashed out on Opposition parties, who met in Bengaluru to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2024 national elections, for not inviting AIMIM saying that they were “political untouchables” for the 26 like-minded parties. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi He said, “They did not call us, we are political …

Prakash Ambedkar to support anti-BJP front
1 year, 6 months ago

Prakash Ambedkar to support anti-BJP front

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Republican Party of India president Prakash Ambedkar on Tuesday offered his party’s support to secular political parties that form a front to fight against the BJP for protecting the Indian Constitution. Addressing a meeting, the RPI president charged BJP with giving political parties the option of freedom or jail in case they want to join hands against the saffron …

Political Line | Big Picture: BJP’s Gujarat model faces resistance in Karnataka
1 year, 8 months ago

Political Line | Big Picture: BJP’s Gujarat model faces resistance in Karnataka

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gujarat model of social engineering is facing stiff resistance in Karnataka. The BJP’s rainbow caste coalitions either isolate or tame dominant castes in each region — the Patels in Gujarat; the Jats in Rajasthan, Haryana, and U.P. Santosh, the party’s National General Secretary, who is from Karnataka, is key in the transformation that the BJP is …

Anti-Dalit KCR has no right to unveil Ambedkar's statute, says Bandi
1 year, 8 months ago

Anti-Dalit KCR has no right to unveil Ambedkar's statute, says Bandi

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: As BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao unveiled the statue of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar claimed on Friday that Rao had no moral authority to inaugurate the 125-foot statue because he had had misled Dalits during the nine years of his tenure and had humiliated them by not keeping the promises he …

Samajwadi Party’s hatred towards Dalits well known, says Mayawati
1 year, 8 months ago

Samajwadi Party’s hatred towards Dalits well known, says Mayawati

The Hindu  

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on April 2 hit out at the Samajwadi Party for trying to manipulate Dalit voters in the name of BSP founder and Dalit leader Kanshi Ram. Ms. Mayawati said the long history of the SP’s caste-driven hatred and malice towards Dalits was well known. “Samajwadi Party’s history of hatred and political malice towards Dalits, Extremely …

Ending speculation, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena camp and Prakash Ambedkar’s VBA seal alliance
1 year, 11 months ago

Ending speculation, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena camp and Prakash Ambedkar’s VBA seal alliance

The Hindu  

In what is being projected as a new political alignment in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena and Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi on Monday officially announced their alliance ahead of the State civic polls, ending months of intense speculation. While both leaders invoked the bonds between their respective grandfathers — Prabhodankar Thackeray and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar — and said the new …

Revisiting Ambedkar's Politics: Representation Can Be Indian Govt's Best Tribute
2 years ago

Revisiting Ambedkar's Politics: Representation Can Be Indian Govt's Best Tribute

The Quint  

The current regime at the centre also claims that it endorses and executes Ambedkar’s social justice agenda. Though a part of the social justice agenda can be materialised, imagining an organic Dalit-Bahujan leadership at the helm of the state power, is still a distant dream. The first—the Independent Labour Party established in 1936 had a Left-Socialist ideological baggage and raised …

Mandal politics needs a reboot
2 years, 2 months ago

Mandal politics needs a reboot

Hindustan Times  

If Mandal altered the grammar of politics in the heartland, Mulayam Singh Yadav was its shining mascot — rising from the muddy wrestling pits of Uttar Pradesh to successfully claim the mantle of the agrarian, socialist politics of Ram Manohar Lohia and Chaudhary Charan Singh. His successes marked the high noon of backward caste assertion made possible by the mobilisation …

1984: Kanshi Ram launches Bahujan Samaj Party
2 years, 4 months ago

1984: Kanshi Ram launches Bahujan Samaj Party

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 15, 2022 06:00 IST Although B.R. Ambedkar had formed the Independent Labour Party in 1936, the Dalit cause did not really become a political movement in north India until Kanshi Ram in 1984 established the Bahujan Samaj Party, which went on to dominate electoral politics in Uttar Pradesh and won significant gains. Kanshi Ram’s biggest success was …

All parties in Uttar Pradesh gear up to celebrate Ambedkar Jayanti
2 years, 8 months ago

All parties in Uttar Pradesh gear up to celebrate Ambedkar Jayanti

Hindustan Times  

All prominent political parties in Uttar Pradesh have asked their workers to gear up for the 131st birth anniversary celebrations of Bhim Rao Ambedkar on Thursday. After its victory in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the BJP has directed its leaders and workers to observe the birth anniversary of Ambedkar as “Samrasta Diwas”. Samajwadi Party state unit spokesperson …

‘Indians First, Indians Last’: Those Appropriating Ambedkar Never Understood Him
2 years, 8 months ago

‘Indians First, Indians Last’: Those Appropriating Ambedkar Never Understood Him

The Quint  

Babasaheb Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 in Mhow, a garrison town near Indore, though his family hailed from Maharashtra. But all those who extol Ambedkar for votes should also try to explore the intellectual and political ideas he left behind. This is particularly essential today when some of us are busy defining the identity of our fellow citizens, …

Mayawati describes Rahul Gandhi’s charges as ‘fallacious’
2 years, 8 months ago

Mayawati describes Rahul Gandhi’s charges as ‘fallacious’

The Hindu  

Describing former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s claim that the Bahujan Samaj Party is afraid of the Bharatiya Janta Party and that the Congress offered her alliance and Chief Minister’s post before the Uttar Pradesh election as “outrightly fallacious,” BSP supremo Mayawati said on Sunday that “Rahul Gandhi’s comments show his inferior feelings towards Dalits and the BSP”. At a book …

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