Will BJP pick a Dalit as its U.P. chief or rely on OBC, upper caste face again?
4 days, 17 hours ago

Will BJP pick a Dalit as its U.P. chief or rely on OBC, upper caste face again?

Hindustan Times  

With the district-level elections having been completed more than a week ago, the BJP is now set to appoint its new Uttar Pradesh state president. According to BJP insiders given the growing focus on social engineering in the state with the principal Opposition also aggressively mobilising voters on caste lines especially since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the party may consider the move to elect a Dalit the party chief in U.P. “The BJP feels it has a good opportunity to bring the BSP’s traditional vote base under its fold and appointing a Dalit leader the party president, the first time, in UP, may heighten this chance,” a senior BJP leader said. With the OBC and upper-caste vote banks largely intact, the party could explore a Dalit leader to strengthen its social coalition, more so because the chief minister Yogi Adityanath and deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak both come from upper caste while another deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya is an OBC. With assembly elections still two years away, the BJP is looking for a leader who can not only counter the opposition’s caste arithmetic but also galvanize the party’s grassroots machinery.

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UP BJP weighs caste balance in search for new state chief
4 days, 20 hours ago

UP BJP weighs caste balance in search for new state chief

New Indian Express  

LUCKNOW: With the organisational reshuffle in the Uttar Pradesh BJP now complete down to the district level, the ruling party is set to appoint a new state unit chief who will lead it into the 2027 assembly elections. According to party insiders, caste will play a crucial role in the appointment, and the BJP may opt for a Dalit leader. …

BSP rejigs U.P. dist, city panels: Dalits, OBCs & Muslims get large share of posts
1 week, 5 days ago

BSP rejigs U.P. dist, city panels: Dalits, OBCs & Muslims get large share of posts

Hindustan Times  

The Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has decided to revive Bhaichara Committees in all the districts of Uttar Pradesh to strengthen the party organisation at the grassroots level before the 2027 assembly election. Party leaders belonging to Dalit, OBC and Muslim communities have been given a large share in organisational posts in the district and city committees. BSP has appointed …

OBC, Baniya, Yadav: A look at caste backgrounds of BJP chief ministers
1 month, 1 week ago

OBC, Baniya, Yadav: A look at caste backgrounds of BJP chief ministers

India Today  

With Chief Minister Rekha Gupta at the helm, the BJP on Thursday successfully formed a government in Delhi after a long gap of almost 27 years. The appointment of Rekha Gupta as Chief Minister reinforced the saffron party's alliance with the Baniya community, which has been a consistent and reliable vote bank for the BJP. Here is a look at …

Delhi Elections: Can BJP Win Over Dalits From AAP? Full Story in 5 Charts
2 months, 1 week ago

Delhi Elections: Can BJP Win Over Dalits From AAP? Full Story in 5 Charts

The Quint  

Rohini and Sultanpur Majra are two adjacent seats in Northwest Delhi. Rohini is one of BJP's strongest seats in the city, it won the seat even amid the 2015 and 2020 Aam Aadmi Party waves. On the other hand, Sultanpur Majra is a seat that the BJP has never won till date ever since Assembly elections began in Delhi in …

OBC reservation insufficient, result of systemic neglect: Congress accuses BJP ahead of Gujarat polls
2 months, 4 weeks ago

OBC reservation insufficient, result of systemic neglect: Congress accuses BJP ahead of Gujarat polls

New Indian Express  

AHMEDABAD: At a gathering of the OBC Jan Adhikar Samiti led by Congress heavyweight Amit Chavda, sharp allegations were levelled against the ruling BJP, stoking fresh flames ahead of the Gujarat local body elections. The government must implement Zaveri Commission recommendations and publish its report,” Chavda demanded, highlighting these issues at a non-political seminar advocating OBC rights and protection. As …

Battle for Dalit votes heats up in poll-bound Haryana
6 months, 1 week ago

Battle for Dalit votes heats up in poll-bound Haryana

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI There’s a certain concern that’s crept into the otherwise confident camp of the Congress in Haryana. Along with the dominant Jat community that comprises approximately 27% of the electorate, Muslims who make up 7% and Sikhs who are about 5%, the Congress’s internal surveys told the party brass that it could have got up to 70 seats in …

Modi 3.0: BJP strikes caste, regional balance in inducting ministers from U.P.
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Modi 3.0: BJP strikes caste, regional balance in inducting ministers from U.P.

Hindustan Times  

The breach in the OBC-Dalit rainbow coalition in the 2024 Lok Sabha election has been the focus of the Bharatiya Janata Party while inducting ministers from Uttar Pradesh in the Modi 3.0 government. The MPs belonging to OBC-Dalit communities are Pankaj Chaudhary, BL Verma, SP Singh Baghel, Anupriya Patel, Jayant Chaudhary and Kamlesh Paswan, who have hold over the respective …

Will OBCs entering electoral fray benefit the BJP?
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Will OBCs entering electoral fray benefit the BJP?

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: After prominent Dhangar community leader Mahadev Jankar joined hands with the ruling alliance, another community leader Prakash Shendge has entered the electoral fray. Had these OBC candidates not entered the fray, the votes would have gone to opposition candidates.” To this, OBP leader Chandrakant Bavkar retorted that OBCs were not in the fray to extend benefits to anybody, but …

Will Bharatiya Janata Party continue to dominate reserved seat matrix in Uttar Pradesh?
1 year ago

Will Bharatiya Janata Party continue to dominate reserved seat matrix in Uttar Pradesh?

Hindustan Times  

With the Lok Sabha poll process having been set in motion, the BJP is out to retain 15 of the 17 reserved seats it had won in the 2019 parliamentary election to continue to dominate the caste matrix in Uttar Pradesh in 2024 by once again denting the Dalit votebank of its poll rivals. This time, the ruling party is …

Fight for the Dalit vote hots up in Uttar Pradesh
1 year ago

Fight for the Dalit vote hots up in Uttar Pradesh

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s latest bid to reach out to Dalits in Uttar Pradesh comes at a time when the State is simmering with Dalit anger over the death of a Jatav teenager in police firing in Milak area of Rampur district. On Thursday, as the State reeled under the news of the father of one of the victims of …

BJP to select Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister on December 11; Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan choices likely to impact decision
1 year, 3 months ago

BJP to select Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister on December 11; Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan choices likely to impact decision

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party is expected to select its Chief Minister for Madhya Pradesh on December 11, as its legislature party meeting is scheduled to be held that evening in the State capital in the presence of the party’s three central observers. Caste calculations After the Chhattisgarh decision, a source in the State BJP said that while the chances of …

Tribal face, OBC or others? Who will be next BJP Chief Minister in Chhattisgarh?
1 year, 3 months ago

Tribal face, OBC or others? Who will be next BJP Chief Minister in Chhattisgarh?

India Today  

As the result trends show a clear victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh, the question everyone is asking is who will be the next Chief Minister. Here are the possible Chief Minister contenders in Chhattisgarh: Vishnu Deo Sai: Tribal voters were crucial, and if the BJP decides to pick a tribal face, the first choice would be Vishnu …

KCR is against to dalit community-BSP Chief Mayavati
1 year, 4 months ago

KCR is against to dalit community-BSP Chief Mayavati

Deccan Chronicle  

Karimnagar: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was against the Dalit people and was treating the community as a vote bank while trying to suppress them politically, alleged Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati. Speaking at an election campaign meeting in support of BSP candidate Dasari Usha from Peddapalli, Mayawati said that it was because of the Indian Constitution written by Dr …

Stuck in Quota Battle with No Deputies Around, Will Shinde Help BJP Ride Caste Wave in 2024? - News18
1 year, 4 months ago

Stuck in Quota Battle with No Deputies Around, Will Shinde Help BJP Ride Caste Wave in 2024? - News18

News 18  

It is evident that the demand for Maratha reservation has taken centre-stage in Maharashtra politics once again, but the same issue could be a thorn in the step of the Mahayuti in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as well, given that, this time, the OBC community is fuming with the idea of all Marathas getting quota under the ‘Kunbi’ caste. …

BJP appoints OBC MP Saini as Haryana party president
1 year, 5 months ago

BJP appoints OBC MP Saini as Haryana party president

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday appointed Lok Sabha MP Nayab Singh Saini, who hails from other backward classes community, as Haryana BJP president replacing Om Prakash Dhankar, the powerful Jat community leader widely credited for expanding party base and preparing the cadre for the electoral slugfests in 2024. Lok Sabha MP Nayab Singh Saini, who became MLA for the …

For more Dalit-Adivasi presence in INDIA
1 year, 5 months ago

For more Dalit-Adivasi presence in INDIA

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party could face a tough fight in the 2024 general elections with the Opposition’s announcement of the INDIA alliance. Other Dalit political parties, especially Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi in Maharashtra and the VCK, are limited due to their regional specificities and incapacity to expand their political base to win important electoral battles. Dalit political outfits have …

29 of 85 Chhattisgarh BJP candidates are OBCs, more likely to be added
1 year, 5 months ago

29 of 85 Chhattisgarh BJP candidates are OBCs, more likely to be added

Hindustan Times  

In an attempt to woo Other Backward Class voters in upcoming elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded 29 candidates from other backward classes out of the 85 it is named so far. In the 2018 election, the BJP fielded 28 OBC candidates and the Congress, 26. The Congress has promised a caste enumeration exercise akin to Bihar’s if it …

SP candidates for U.P. Legislative Council bypoll demand support
1 year, 10 months ago

SP candidates for U.P. Legislative Council bypoll demand support

The Hindu  

The Samajwadi Party candidates for the Legislative Council bypoll to be held on May 29, wrote an open letter on May 24 to backward classes leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, its allies and the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar requesting their votes in favour of themselves for the sake of social justice. Candidates Ram Jatan Rajbhar …

UP local body polls: Will Agra elect its first OBC mayor?
2 years ago

UP local body polls: Will Agra elect its first OBC mayor?

India Today  

With the approval of the Supreme Court for UP municipal elections with OBC reservation, political equations have already begun to form in Agra. According to sources, the UP cabinet has already agreed to reserve 27% of the local body election positions for the Other Backward Classes. READ | Supreme Court paves way for UP local body polls with OBC reservation, …

The race for the Dalit vote in U.P.
2 years, 2 months ago

The race for the Dalit vote in U.P.

The Hindu  

In the last week of December, the Allahabad High Court quashed the reservation for the Other Backward Classes in urban local bodies — a decision which the Supreme Court has now stayed. In fact, all the major political parties in Uttar Pradesh are competing to win over the electorally significant but marginalised Dalit voter community that comprises roughly 20% of …

Akhilesh Yadav asks for U.P. Assembly session to discuss OBC quota in urban bodies
2 years, 3 months ago

Akhilesh Yadav asks for U.P. Assembly session to discuss OBC quota in urban bodies

The Hindu  

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday asked the Uttar Pradesh Government to convene a special session of the State Assembly to discuss the issue of Other Backward Classes reservation in urban local bodies after the Allahabad High Court’s decision to quash OBC reservation. Government’s conscience is clear, it must hold a special session of the State Legislature, so that …

Shahnawaz Hussain: ‘We are the party of OBCs, Dalits and tribals’
2 years, 3 months ago

Shahnawaz Hussain: ‘We are the party of OBCs, Dalits and tribals’

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 29, 2022 10:50 IST Shahnawaz Hussain of the BJP has held key positions in the erstwhile Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance government in Bihar. In this interview, the former Union Minister discusses his party’s plans to navigate Bihar’s electoral maze and the motive behind its focus on backward Muslims. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the NDA …

Mainpuri Bypoll: BJP, SP Claim Dalit Support in Absence of BSP in Fray
2 years, 3 months ago

Mainpuri Bypoll: BJP, SP Claim Dalit Support in Absence of BSP in Fray

News 18  

Ahead of the Mainpuri parliamentary bypoll, the BJP and the Samajwadi Party are making claims of winning Dalit voters to their side in the absence of Mayawati’s BSP in the fray. While the ruling BJP in the state has claimed that traditional supporters of the Bahujan Samaj Party have shifted to its side, boosting its chances of winning, the Samajwadi …

Islamists and liberals abuse Dalits for 'making BJP win' in assembly polls
3 years ago

Islamists and liberals abuse Dalits for 'making BJP win' in assembly polls

Op India  

In the 2022 Assembly elections that concluded with the results yesterday, i.e on the 10th of March 2022, BJP won 4 states, including Uttar Pradesh where the party created history by becoming the first party in over 35 years to have returned to power. So enraged were these Islamists at Dalit voters, whom they saw as the main catalyst for …

Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls | BSP decline signals crisis of Dalit politics
3 years ago

Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls | BSP decline signals crisis of Dalit politics

The Hindu  

Special Correspondent It was an outpouring of bad news for the Bahujan Samaj Party, once the elephantine force in Uttar Pradesh and Dalit politics, as results of the Uttar Pradesh and Punjab elections came through on Thursday. BSP chief Mayawati and her party had been largely absent in the campaign space, and though alibis that this was the usual ‘silent’ …

UP polls 2022: Anupriya Patel seeks more political representation for OBCs to ensure 'social justice'
3 years, 3 months ago

UP polls 2022: Anupriya Patel seeks more political representation for OBCs to ensure 'social justice'

India TV News  

Highlights Anupriya Patel has pitched for more political representation for OBCs The Apna Dal had won nine seats in the 2017 assembly polls The party has contested the three elections in alliance with the BJP Political history clearly shows that the party or alliance that gets the OBC support comes to power in Uttar Pradesh, BJP ally and Apna Dal …

Harish Rawat's Push for Dalit Face in Uttarakhand Sets Political Circles Abuzz, BJP Slams 'Ploy to Attract Voters'
3 years, 6 months ago

Harish Rawat's Push for Dalit Face in Uttarakhand Sets Political Circles Abuzz, BJP Slams 'Ploy to Attract Voters'

News 18  

Former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat has given rise to conjectures among the political circles with his recent statement at ‘Parivartan Yatra’ rally hinting at pulling out of the chief ministerial race. Speaking at a ‘Parivartan Yatra’ rally on Monday, Rawat said he would like to see a Dalit chief minister in Uttarakhand adding that Dalits constitute about 18 percent …

Cabinet Reshuffle Positions Narendra Modi as Champion of OBCs, Right before Crucial Polls
3 years, 8 months ago

Cabinet Reshuffle Positions Narendra Modi as Champion of OBCs, Right before Crucial Polls

News 18  

Well before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new council of ministers was sworn in, it was made known, through both official and non-official sources, that this team would have a high representation of Other Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes. While the inclusion of such a large number of members from the backward classes and scheduled castes was inevitable given their sizeable …

Punjab Elections 2022: As political landscape warms up, will Dalit votes be the game changer?
3 years, 9 months ago

Punjab Elections 2022: As political landscape warms up, will Dalit votes be the game changer?

Op India  

Punjab is less than a year away from assembly elections. In a special ardaas he offered in the Gurudwara, Gurmel Singh Khalsa prayed for PM Modi’s long life and backed BJP’s reported decision to project a Dalit as CM candidate in the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections. They should get justice.” Speaking to OpIndia, BJP State President Ashwani Kumar Sharma said, …

BJP’s next target: 333 in 2024 Lok Sabha polls with focus on south
5 years, 10 months ago

BJP’s next target: 333 in 2024 Lok Sabha polls with focus on south

Hindustan Times  

That’s the target for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, according to the party’s national secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh and Tripura, Sunil Deodhar. “Our core mandala is from West Bengal to Tamil Nadu and to make inroads for 2024, if we have to reach our 333 mark, then we will have to focus on …

Verdict will decide course of Dalit politics
5 years, 10 months ago

Verdict will decide course of Dalit politics

Firstpost  

Despite the emergence of the Bahujan Samaj Party in the 1980s, the Congress party continued to garner the maximum share of Dalit votes. The party’s Dalit vote base in 2014 comprised mostly of the upwardly mobile sections—urban, educated middle classes, with high media exposure—and the BJP managed to do so by driving a wedge between Dalit jatis. Two, while the …

BJP faces diverse views from allies in Uttar Pradesh on quota to backward classes; Opposition calls it a ploy for electoral benefits
6 years, 2 months ago

BJP faces diverse views from allies in Uttar Pradesh on quota to backward classes; Opposition calls it a ploy for electoral benefits

Firstpost  

Lucknow: Diverse views of BJP allies Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party and Apna Dal in Uttar Pradesh on the reservation to backward classes have become a thorn in the flesh for the ruling party ahead of Lok Sabha polls. While the SBSP has given 100 days’ ultimatum to the BJP to implement recommendations of a social justice committee on backward reservations, …

Gujarat assembly polls 2017: BJP likely to focus on winning over OBCs
7 years, 4 months ago

Gujarat assembly polls 2017: BJP likely to focus on winning over OBCs

Live Mint  

Ahmedabad: With the Congress aggressively wooing the Patel vote bank, Gujarat’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to focus on winning over the Other Backward Classes ahead of next month’s elections in the state, say party leaders. The party will increase the number of tickets given to OBCS from “about 40” to the “maximum” in a bid to win their …

Presidential Election 2017: Mayawati says happy that a Dalit will be next head of state
7 years, 8 months ago

Presidential Election 2017: Mayawati says happy that a Dalit will be next head of state

Firstpost  

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Monday expressed happiness that a Dalit would become the next President of India, irrespective of who wins the election. New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Monday expressed happiness that a Dalit would become the next President of India, irrespective of who wins the election. It is a happy moment for our movement …

Has BJP's dalit card failed in Uttar Pradesh?
8 years, 5 months ago

Has BJP's dalit card failed in Uttar Pradesh?

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Feedback received by the RSS on its dalit outreach programmes show that though the BJP is the “second biggest claimant” for dalit votes, and is also perceived to be “visibly doing lot of work” for the upliftment of the community, it has so far failed to “culturally identify” itself with the community. However, feedback suggests that though the …

U.P.Assembly elections 2017: parties work the caste calculus
8 years, 8 months ago

U.P.Assembly elections 2017: parties work the caste calculus

The Hindu  

Caste seems to be again emerging as a major mobilisational tactic in the run-up to the >2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. In U.P., parties are exploring the possibility of ‘stepney caste votes’ to add to their base votes by trying to enter into various kinds of alliances with different castes. Many numerically sizeable castes have formed their small caste-based …

Upper caste to be BJP face in Uttar Pradesh elections
8 years, 9 months ago

Upper caste to be BJP face in Uttar Pradesh elections

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The BJP is all set for Uttar Pradesh elections with an upper caste as the party’s face. The party high command, which has already sent a signal to the backward community by making OBC leader Keshav Prasad Maurya the state unit chief, has decided to project an upper caste as that has always been its core vote bank. …

Will India’s Mayawati hold on to Dalit votes?
10 years, 11 months ago

Will India’s Mayawati hold on to Dalit votes?

Al Jazeera  

Resurgent BJP, the election front-runner, could lure votes away from Dalit icon in her home state Uttar Pradesh. Yet everyone here knows “Elephant,” the party symbol of Bahujan Samaj Party led by former Chief Minister Mayawati – a sentinel for millions of India’s Dalits or former “untouchables”. “BSP already has the Dalit vote,” she told a gathering at the riot-hit …

Caste dictates BJP preferences
21 years, 5 months ago

Caste dictates BJP preferences

Hindustan Times  

Caste factor has always been the cornerstone of Rajasthan politics and it no different this time either. Former State party chief Ramdas Agrawal concedes that it was the basic consideration in the allotment of tickets. However, the party wants to wait for announcement of Congress candidates and decide upon its nominees after studying the seat's caste configuration. The State unit …

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