Firstpost Editor's Picks: Quota for upper castes, Yogi's tax to build cow shelters, Ravi Shastri on Team India, today's must read stories
6 years, 2 months ago

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Quota for upper castes, Yogi's tax to build cow shelters, Ravi Shastri on Team India, today's must read stories

Firstpost  

The fall of Asaram Bapu is almost identical to that of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and came due to the women who stood up to them. Centre’s move to give 10% reservation to economically backward upper castes puts Opposition on back foot The Narendra Modi government’s decision to provide reservation to economically weaker classes will change that situation and once again make, perhaps with greater vigour, upper castes gravitate towards the BJP. Never one to accept the limitations of Hindutva imagination, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath has chosen to impose a cess of 0.50 percent to raise funds for constructing cow shelters in each rural and urban local body. Virat Kohli-led India show Ravi Shastri’s ‘best travelling Indian team in the last 15 years’ remark wasn’t wrong India head coach’s declaration that this Indian team has travelled the best and played Test cricket in all conditions better than its predecessors came across as a vain boast and came in for much criticism. But since Virat Kohli was handed the reins of the side, it has accounted for nearly a third of India’s 37 overseas Test wins since the year 2000, Shastri’s claim has begun to ring true.

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Karnataka's nod to 4% quota for Muslim contractors in tenders, BJP slams move
1 week, 4 days ago

Karnataka's nod to 4% quota for Muslim contractors in tenders, BJP slams move

India Today  

The Karnataka government's decision to provide a 4% reservation in tenders for Muslim contractors has stirred a political storm, with the BJP accusing the Congress of "appeasement politics" and alleging that Rahul Gandhi influenced the state cabinet's decision. Training his guns at the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Prasad pointed out that the Karnataka government's move was …

Bihar assembly winter session: LoP Tejashwi asks Minister Nitish govt to raise reservation quota to 85 per cent
4 months ago

Bihar assembly winter session: LoP Tejashwi asks Minister Nitish govt to raise reservation quota to 85 per cent

New Indian Express  

PATNA: Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, the Leader of Opposition in the Bihar assembly, has called on the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government to introduce new laws providing 85% reservation quotas for deprived castes and economically weaker sections. Speaking in the assembly on Tuesday, after Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav rejected the opposition’s adjournment motion, the RJD leader proposed that a committee be set …

Haryana's SC Sub-Quota: A Polarizing Divide Within the Dalit Community
5 months ago

Haryana's SC Sub-Quota: A Polarizing Divide Within the Dalit Community

Hindustan Times  

Haryana's decision to implement Scheduled Caste (SC) sub-quotas marks an important turn for Indian politics. The sub-quotas will address inequalities within the broader SC group, with each segment getting half of the 20% quota. This is significant as it is the first state to implement sub-quotas within the SC umbrella since the Supreme Court allowed it. The decision is also …

Lalu Yadav on caste census: ‘Will hold RSS, BJP by ear, make them do sit-ups’
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Lalu Yadav on caste census: ‘Will hold RSS, BJP by ear, make them do sit-ups’

Hindustan Times  

Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday declared that the opposition would compel the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological fountainhead, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, to conduct a caste census. Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav holds a mic while RJD Chief Lalu Prasad addresses party workers during 28th foundation of Rashtriya Janata Dal, at the party office …

Congress frames social justice as an essential step of a policy framework to ensure justice
7 months ago

Congress frames social justice as an essential step of a policy framework to ensure justice

The Hindu  

The Narendra Modi government quickly scrapped a proposal to induct mid-level officials into the bureaucracy through lateral entry to counter the Opposition’s allegations of “ending reservations.” However, it is clear that Congress would continue to place social justice as the centrepiece of its politics. On Saturday, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, positioned caste census as an …

Will BJP reverse stand on caste census after electoral setbacks?
8 months, 1 week ago

Will BJP reverse stand on caste census after electoral setbacks?

New Indian Express  

Demand for reservations In 2022, the government of Bihar undertook a noteworthy initiative by conducting a caste-based survey, an effort that cost nearly Rs 5 billion from its contingency fund. The findings revealed a significant demographic composition: Other Backward Classes constituted 27%, and Extremely Backward Classes 36%, together accounting for over 63% of Bihar's population. On November 9, 2023, the …

Cong gave OBC quota to Muslims in K’taka, BJP won’t allow it in Haryana: Amit Shah
8 months, 1 week ago

Cong gave OBC quota to Muslims in K’taka, BJP won’t allow it in Haryana: Amit Shah

Hindustan Times  

The Congress has always been anti-backward classes and opposed to quota to BCs even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi ensured 27% reservation to this community despite stiff opposition from the opposition, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday. Union home minister and BJP leader Amit Shah addressing the Backward Class Samman Sammelan in Mahedragarh, Haryana, on Tuesday. Addressing the …

VHR Asks BJP to Lift 50% Quota Cap
8 months, 3 weeks ago

VHR Asks BJP to Lift 50% Quota Cap

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Senior TPCC leader V. Hanumantha Rao on Monday called on the NDA-led BJP government at the Centre to pass a bill in Parliament that would allow reservations to exceed the current 50 percent cap. Hanumantha Rao highlighted that the Congress wants all state laws regarding reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes to be included in …

Religion-based reservation dangerous; Cong wanted to implement it, says PM Modi at poll rally
10 months, 1 week ago

Religion-based reservation dangerous; Cong wanted to implement it, says PM Modi at poll rally

New Indian Express  

NASHIK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday alleged the Congress during its previous rule wanted to allocate 15 per cent of the government budget for minorities and vowed not to allow splitting of budget or reservation in jobs and education on the basis of religion. Addressing an election rally at Pimpalgaon Baswant in north Maharashtra's Nashik district in support of …

Even Vajpayee’s Govt Tried to End Quotas, Say Revanth
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Even Vajpayee’s Govt Tried to End Quotas, Say Revanth

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Continuing his tirade against the BJP ‘conspiracy’ to abolish reservations to SCs, STs, and OBCs, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said that making India 'reservations-free' is their core philosophy. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Reddy said that the BJP-led NDA government had made a similar attempt in 2000, when the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee issued …

Clear Signs of BJP Retaining Power: Vishweshwar Reddy
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Clear Signs of BJP Retaining Power: Vishweshwar Reddy

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: BJP Chevella candidate Konda Vishweshwar Reddy said that the party’s graph was soaring consistently as per recent surveys, and the nation was leaning decisively towards retaining the BJP at the Centre and Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. Reddy pointed out that Rahul Gandhi's advocacy on certain issues appears to contradict the principles enshrined in the Constitution and the ideals …

We back reservations: RSS head Mohan Bhagwat amid quota row
10 months, 3 weeks ago

We back reservations: RSS head Mohan Bhagwat amid quota row

Op India  

Amid the ongoing Lok Sabha election, Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has made a significant announcement regarding reservations. The Sangh has been supporting all reservations as per the Constitution since the… https://t.co/lGju5pukHj pic.twitter.com/crS5FORdv1 — ANI April 28, 2024 Notably, last year Mohan Bhagwat remarked in Nagpur that reservations should be granted as long as there is …

'RSS backs reservations': Mohan Bhagwat amid BJP vs Congress poll battle over quota row
10 months, 3 weeks ago

'RSS backs reservations': Mohan Bhagwat amid BJP vs Congress poll battle over quota row

India TV News  

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday, while addressing an event, made it clear that the Sangh Parivar never opposed reservations extended to certain groups. Rahul Gandhi attacks BJP, RSS Congress leader Rahul has been on a streak to attack the BJP and RSS over a range of issues, including reservation. Gandhi recently in Wayanad, accused the BJP and …

'Islamisation of India': CM Yogi on Congress-led Karnataka govt move to include Muslims in OBC category
11 months ago

'Islamisation of India': CM Yogi on Congress-led Karnataka govt move to include Muslims in OBC category

India TV News  

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has slammed the Congress-led government in Karnataka for proposing to include all castes and communities of Muslims in Other Backward Classes saying it's very unfortunate and an attempt at 'Islamisation of India'. So, be it Justice Verma committee report or Sachar Committee Report - they were all attempts by Congress …

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

Maharashtra assembly passes bill for 10% reservation to Marathas
1 year, 1 month ago

Maharashtra assembly passes bill for 10% reservation to Marathas

Hindustan Times  

The Maharashtra assembly on Monday passed a bill for 10% reservation to the Marathas in educational institutes and government jobs even as courts struck down similar laws enacted in 2014 and 2019. In its report, the commission said Marathas, who account for Maharashtra’s 28% population, faced “‘exceptional and extraordinary” backwardness, making it a fit case for the reservation to breach …

Caste Census: How Crucial It Will Be In Opposition’s Voter Consolidation Bid And BJP's OBC Messaging
1 year, 5 months ago

Caste Census: How Crucial It Will Be In Opposition’s Voter Consolidation Bid And BJP's OBC Messaging

ABP News  

Caste Census: In the diverse tapestry of Indian society, caste has long been a defining feature, shaping political alliances, influencing economic opportunities, and perpetuating social hierarchies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rejection of the demand for a comprehensive caste census put forth by the Congress and other opposition parties has set the stage for a high-stakes political showdown, which may have …

INDIA will conduct caste census if voted to power: Rahul Gandhi
1 year, 6 months ago

INDIA will conduct caste census if voted to power: Rahul Gandhi

Hindustan Times  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday promised the Opposition Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance will conduct a caste census if the grouping is voted to power to determine the actual representation of the Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with party leaders Jairam Ramesh and KC Venugopal. The promise came two days after Gandhi …

Venugopal demands caste census, separate quota for OBC women within 33% reservation
1 year, 6 months ago

Venugopal demands caste census, separate quota for OBC women within 33% reservation

The Hindu  

Senior MP and Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal set the tone for the debate on the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday by demanding a caste census and separate reservation for Other Backward Classes women within the 33% quota. Mr. Venugopal said the BJP government had a poor record of ensuring safety and security for women, citing …

Amit Shah defends scrapping 4% reservation for Muslims in Karnataka
1 year, 11 months ago

Amit Shah defends scrapping 4% reservation for Muslims in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on April 25 defended the BJP Government’s decision in Karnataka of scrapping 4% quota for Muslims saying the party never believed in ‘religion-based reservation.’ The former BJP chief also took a dig at the Congress for its stand that the quota would be restored if it is voted to power in the State after the …

Bhatti slams Amit Shah for remarks on Muslim quota
1 year, 11 months ago

Bhatti slams Amit Shah for remarks on Muslim quota

Deccan Chronicle  

KARIMNAGAR: CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka called Union home minister Amit Shah's statement that the BJP will scrap 4 per cent reservations for Muslims in Telangana if the party forms government a "drop of poison" meant to cause unrest in a state where people live in peace and communal harmony. Bhatti stated that the Congress government provided 4 percent reservations …

Biju Janata Dal regime in Odisha has an anti-OBC mindset, says Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
1 year, 11 months ago

Biju Janata Dal regime in Odisha has an anti-OBC mindset, says Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The Hindu  

The Biju Janata Dal government in Odisha led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is all set to conduct a comprehensive survey of the social and educational conditions of the Other Backward Classes, which constitute close to 54% of the State’s population. Union Minister for Education, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan has been a strong critic of the State government’s …

As Karnataka heads for polls, here are key issues that are in intense public debate
1 year, 11 months ago

As Karnataka heads for polls, here are key issues that are in intense public debate

The Hindu  

Karnataka is headed for Assembly elections on May 10 even as debates rage on allegations of corruption against the ruling BJP, changes in the caste reservation matrix made at the fag end of the government’s tenure and an undercurrent of communal narrative. Battle lines have been drawn between the BJP, Congress and Janata Dal, with the ruling dispensation attempting to …

Suspect moves: The Hindu Editorial on changes to reservation policy in Karnataka
1 year, 11 months ago

Suspect moves: The Hindu Editorial on changes to reservation policy in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Statecraft involves management of competing demands for accommodation and inclusion, without unduly affecting the interests of any section of society. The Karnataka government’s decision to scrap the 4% quota for Muslims within the Other Backward Classes category and earmark an additional 2% each to the dominant Vokkaliga and Veerashaiva-Lingayat communities is a divisive gamble in the expectation of electoral dividends. …

BJP woos Karnataka’s powerful castes with reservation sop ahead of Assembly election
2 years, 1 month ago

BJP woos Karnataka’s powerful castes with reservation sop ahead of Assembly election

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 18, 2023 18:13 IST With an eye on the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election slated to take place in April or May this year, the ruling BJP government is planning to woo the two most powerful and dominant castes of the State, the Lingayats and the Vokkaligas, by hiking the reservation provided to the two communities. In the …

Andhra Pradesh: Bahujan Samaj Party proposes implementation of job quota in private companies
2 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Bahujan Samaj Party proposes implementation of job quota in private companies

The Hindu  

Bahujan Samaj Party leaders Somu Rambabu and Soru Sambayya on Thursday urged the Union Government to implement reservation in jobs for Scheduled Castes, Tribes and Backward Classes at private companies across the country in the backdrop of ‘large-scale privatisation of public sector units’. “The privatisation of PSUs is leading to denial of reservation to OBCs, SCs and STs,” the BSP …

OBC reservation in India: History, state-wise quota, legal challenges, tussle for local body polls
2 years, 10 months ago

OBC reservation in India: History, state-wise quota, legal challenges, tussle for local body polls

The Hindu  

The story so far: Last week, the Maharashtra government had a setback when the Supreme Court directed the State to release the schedule for local civic polls across the state within two weeks, upholding its stay on reservations for Other Backward Classes. Local body elections in Maharashtra have been on hold since the apex Court stayed the 27 per cent …

2022 Uttar Pradesh elections: BJP is a favourite, but SP may be no pushover this time
3 years ago

2022 Uttar Pradesh elections: BJP is a favourite, but SP may be no pushover this time

Firstpost  

The BJP had a huge lead over the SP in 2017, and it would require a major upset for the SP to turn the tables on the party About a week from now, the results of the Uttar Pradesh elections, touted as the “semi-final” before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, will be known. Some of these groups — most notably, …

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 …

Political scientist Ashwani Kumar interview | ‘Days of 50% OBC quota cap are numbered’
3 years, 7 months ago

Political scientist Ashwani Kumar interview | ‘Days of 50% OBC quota cap are numbered’

The Hindu  

The demand for a caste-based census or lifting the cap on 50% reservation heralds the onset of ‘Mandal III’, says political scientistAshwani Kumar on the approach of a new Mandal politics and its implications. Arguably, if Mandal was about a battle for job reservation in the 1990s and the reservation in college admission in 2008 was dubbed Mandal II, then …

Akhilesh Yadav Accuses BJP of Misleading OBCs, Demands Increase in Reservation Limit
3 years, 7 months ago

Akhilesh Yadav Accuses BJP of Misleading OBCs, Demands Increase in Reservation Limit

News 18  

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday accused the BJP of misleading the OBC community and said that the reservation limit be increased to 50 per cent and caste census data be revised. The former UP chief minister, who was speaking in the Lok Sabha, pointed out that the backwards class won’t get its rights if 50 per cent …

The Current Reservation System Will Benefit the Political Class, Not Downtrodden
3 years, 7 months ago

The Current Reservation System Will Benefit the Political Class, Not Downtrodden

News 18  

Ambedkar would have nodded his head in disbelief had he been present in 21st century India. It’s a mockery of the current reservation policy where a large chunk of subcategories within the socially and educationally backward castes is left out and pushed to the fringe by the dominant 10 castes of a total of 2,633 sub-castes within the larger OBC …

Why Nitish's call for a caste-based Census will worry the Centre
4 years, 1 month ago

Why Nitish's call for a caste-based Census will worry the Centre

India Today  

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has once again called for a caste-based census. India’s last caste census, conducted 90 years ago in 1931, had pegged the backward castes at 52 per cent of the population. The Centre’s reservation policy which came into effect in 1992 doesn’t take into account the fact that there exists within the OBCs a separate category …

BJP’s 10% Upper Caste Quota Step in Right Direction: Mandal Grandson Ahead of Madhepura Poll Debut
4 years, 5 months ago

BJP’s 10% Upper Caste Quota Step in Right Direction: Mandal Grandson Ahead of Madhepura Poll Debut

News 18  

His friends call him ‘Nokia’, Nikhil Mandal says, “because I’m always ‘connecting people’.” Mandal is the grandson of famous BP Mandal, the first non-Congress party Chief Minister of Bihar and the chairperson of the backward classes commission, better known as the ‘Mandal Commission’, which changed the course of Indian politics. Having served his party, the JD, from, as he says, …

Maharashtra minister Balasaheb Thorat accuses RSS, BJP of opposing reservation for backward sections, blames them of trying to do away with ST, SC, OBC quota
5 years, 1 month ago

Maharashtra minister Balasaheb Thorat accuses RSS, BJP of opposing reservation for backward sections, blames them of trying to do away with ST, SC, OBC quota

Firstpost  

Balasaheb Thorat was speaking at the ‘BJP Hatao, Aarakshan Bachao’ rally organised by the Congress Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress chief and state Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat on Wednesday accused the RSS and the BJP of being anti-reservation, and said they are trying to do away with quota for STs, SCs and OBCs given by the Constitution. Thorat was speaking at the …

Inclusion of MBCs in scheduled caste list signals shift in social equations in Uttar Pradesh ahead of Assembly bypolls
5 years, 8 months ago

Inclusion of MBCs in scheduled caste list signals shift in social equations in Uttar Pradesh ahead of Assembly bypolls

Firstpost  

The Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to include 17 Most Backward Castes in the list of Scheduled Castes is likely to give the BJP an edge in the upcoming Assembly bypolls. Lucknow: The process to issue caste certificates to members of the 17 most backward classes, which were included in the SC list, could not have come at a more appropriate …

Political consolidation of all castes: Narrative of BJP being an ‘upper caste’ party is malicious and another attempt to wound Hindu unity
5 years, 9 months ago

Political consolidation of all castes: Narrative of BJP being an ‘upper caste’ party is malicious and another attempt to wound Hindu unity

Op India  

The 2019 General Elections were seen as pivotal for the future of the country from the very beginning. That leaders like Jignesh Mevani were propped up, who represent a very rabid form of caste politics, is further evidence of the attempt to thwart the political consolidation of Hindus. Modi Cabinet Ministers List: Upper castes get big chunk of ministerial berths …

Zero-sum game
6 years, 2 months ago

Zero-sum game

The Hindu  

THE Union government’s move to provide 10 per cent reservation for the “economically weaker sections” not only evoked widespread support across party lines but also gave rise to a similar strain of interpretation. The opposition was of the view that the Prime Minister and his associates in the National Democratic Alliance had embarked on an ill-thought-out, ad hoc operation just …

Opinion | Will the reservation wager by Modi pay off in lok sabha polls?
6 years, 2 months ago

Opinion | Will the reservation wager by Modi pay off in lok sabha polls?

Live Mint  

More than a meaningful debate over how much the poor upper castes will be benefited with the provision of reservation, our discourse everywhere is focused on how much the Narendra Modi government will benefit. A significant reason behind this discussion is that the Bharatiya Janata Party had faced the ire of the upper castes in the assembly elections of Madhya …

Excuse of upper caste poverty may not help Modi govt get away with 10% quota if it's legally challenged
6 years, 2 months ago

Excuse of upper caste poverty may not help Modi govt get away with 10% quota if it's legally challenged

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court has ground to quash the 10 percent quota law it if it is challenged before it as there has been no mention of any inadequate representation of poorer sections of the society. *** By introducing 10 percent reservations for economically weaker sections of the general category, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing what PV Narasimha Rao tried …

Is the BJP really concerned about India’s poor?
6 years, 2 months ago

Is the BJP really concerned about India’s poor?

Al Jazeera  

On January 9, the upper house of India’s parliament – the Rajya Sabha – passed a constitutional amendment to lift the cap on reservations in education and public sector jobs from 50 to 60 percent. This is why Modi’s scheme has come to be scorned as “upper caste reservations” that erase the fact that, in India, affirmative action was introduced …

Modi's 10% quota plan: PM's switch hit has reverse-Mandalised Indian politics, caught Opposition off-guard
6 years, 2 months ago

Modi's 10% quota plan: PM's switch hit has reverse-Mandalised Indian politics, caught Opposition off-guard

Firstpost  

Narendra Modi has not just reversed the direction of the political narrative by offering 10 percent reservation for upper castes, but also changed his stance on the issue, to hit the prevailing Mandal logic out of the park Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to allocate 10 percent quota in jobs and education to the general category on the basis of …

Here are 4 lies being spread about 10% reservation to the economically backward section of society
6 years, 2 months ago

Here are 4 lies being spread about 10% reservation to the economically backward section of society

Op India  

The Narendra Modi government, in a historic move, introduced the 124th constitutional amendment that paved the way for 10% reservation to economically backward people. Upper Caste Reservation: Constitutional amendment and road ahead simplifiedhttps://t.co/WiJF4oejMN pic.twitter.com/GVM1PTrOz8 — Financial Express January 9, 2019 Quota for upper castes cleared so rapidly, but women’s reservation bill pending for last 9 years! https://t.co/4NxvsOQ3Ub — nikhil wagle …

10% reservation for the poor: Contrary to claims, here is why it might not encroach on the 50% reservation cap
6 years, 2 months ago

10% reservation for the poor: Contrary to claims, here is why it might not encroach on the 50% reservation cap

Op India  

The Modi government, in a landmark decision, introduced the 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill that provided for 10% reservation for economically backward classes that have not been included in any reservation category so far. The judgement read Thus, it stands to reason that the basis of the Court striking down the 10% reservation for economically backward categories was solely on the …

Ten questions on 10 per cent reservation
6 years, 2 months ago

Ten questions on 10 per cent reservation

Deccan Chronicle  

So, the game-changer is here. The Parliament has passed the 124th constitution amendment bill of Modi Government bringing in 10 per cent quota for the economically deprived non-reserved category citizens of India. First, with just 90 days to go for the General Elections in India, a major policy issue like additional 10 per cent reservation, and for the first time …

India moves to open up job quotas to upper castes for first time
6 years, 2 months ago

India moves to open up job quotas to upper castes for first time

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Under India’s constitution, 50 per …

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, …

Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota to economically weak
6 years, 2 months ago

Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota to economically weak

India TV News  

BSP chief Mayawati said Tuesday the Union Cabinet's decision to provide 10 per cent reservation in education and government jobs to the economically weaker sections was an "election stunt and political gimmick" of the BJP. "BSP's demand to provide reservation to the economically backward sections in general category is approved by the Cabinet in an immature way and without preparation. …

10% quota for economically weaker upper caste: Political ploy is only way to bring desired change to polarised polity
6 years, 2 months ago

10% quota for economically weaker upper caste: Political ploy is only way to bring desired change to polarised polity

Firstpost  

Narendra Modi government’s decision to amend the Constitution to provide 10 percent quota for economically weaker sections of the upper caste has generated a lot of heat and dust. Narendra Modi government’s decision to amend the Constitution to provide 10 percent reservation in college admissions and government jobs for so-called economically weaker sections of people who are not covered by …

Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota for upper caste
6 years, 2 months ago

Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota for upper caste

Deccan Chronicle  

Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati said Tuesday the Union Cabinet's decision to provide 10 per cent reservation in education and government jobs to the economically weaker sections was an "election stunt and political gimmick" of the BJP. "BSP's demand to provide reservation to the economically backward sections in general category is approved by the Cabinet in an immature way and without …

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