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BJP top brass to finalise Maha CM today; Fadnavis front-runner, Maratha and OBC faces also under consideration
3 weeks, 5 days ago

BJP top brass to finalise Maha CM today; Fadnavis front-runner, Maratha and OBC faces also under consideration

New Indian Express  

Highly placed sources say that the RSS is pushing for the elevation of a senior BJP leader to the chief minister’s post in Maharashtra, a message that has also been conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Devendra Fadnavis, a Brahmin from Nagpur, where the RSS headquarters is located, is an important candidate for the chief minister’s post, especially with an …

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Maharashtra Congress chief compares BJP to 'dog': Time to show its place
1 month, 1 week ago

Maharashtra Congress chief compares BJP to 'dog': Time to show its place

India Today  

Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole stoked a controversy by comparing the BJP to a dog and asserted that the party should be "shown its place" over its alleged mistreatment of the OBC community. Addressing a rally in Akola, Patole attacked the BJP for bringing down the Maha Vikas Aghadi government and singled out Devendra Fadnavis, saying that the former Chief …

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When I talk of tribal rights, BJP accuses me of dividing the country: Rahul Gandhi
1 month, 2 weeks ago

When I talk of tribal rights, BJP accuses me of dividing the country: Rahul Gandhi

New Indian Express  

RANCHI: Leader of Opposition in the Parliament Rahul Gandhi, while addressing a rally in tribal-dominated Gumla and Lohardaga on Friday, vowed to increase reservation of ST, SC and OBC up to 28 per cent, 12 per cent and 27 per cent respectively. According to Rahul Gandhi, there is only 8 per cent tribal, 15 per cent dalit and about 50 …

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BJP Focuses on OBC Votes in Maharashtra: A Detailed Look at the Second List
1 month, 3 weeks ago

BJP Focuses on OBC Votes in Maharashtra: A Detailed Look at the Second List

Deccan Chronicle  

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its second list of 22 candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly polls. The party has retained six sitting MLAs and dropped two. Additionally, the BJP has intensified its outreach for OBC votes, with top leaders holding regular parleys with the leaders of the OBC community since the past few weeks in the presence of …

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Opinion: UP poll debacle report - Why BJP lost non-Yadav OBC and non-Jatav support
5 months ago

Opinion: UP poll debacle report - Why BJP lost non-Yadav OBC and non-Jatav support

India Today  

The president of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit, in a report to the high command, listed among other things a significant decline of eight per cent in the party's vote share across the state, a diminished backing from Kurmis and Mauryas, and a reduction in Dalit votes as reasons for the party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha …

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Letters to the Editor June 28, 2024
6 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor June 28, 2024

The Hindu  

Readers respond to Frontline’s coverage. Ayyasseri Raveendranath Aranmula, Kerala Prime Minister Narendra Modi harps tirelessly on matters of religion and faith in order to polarise voters but has maintained a stony silence on Manipur where hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced. The fact that the bloodshed continued despite Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Manipur and his talks …

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SC/ST, OBC reservation will not be scrapped with BJP in power, Amit Shah assures voters in Akola
8 months ago

SC/ST, OBC reservation will not be scrapped with BJP in power, Amit Shah assures voters in Akola

The Hindu  

Lambasting the Congress for spreading falsehoods about the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party doing away with reservations, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah on Tuesday said that it was Narendra Modi’s guarantee that no one could think of scrapping the reservation of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and the Other Backward Classes as long as the BJP remained in …

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Ranjith Sreenivasan Murder: Security Enhanced For Kerala Judge Who Gave Death Verdict After Online Threats
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Ranjith Sreenivasan Murder: Security Enhanced For Kerala Judge Who Gave Death Verdict After Online Threats

ABP News  

Kerala Police heightened the security for Mavelikkara Additional Sessions Judge-I V G Sreedevi on Wednesday following social media threats made against her after she pronounced the verdict in the murder case of BJP OBC wing leader Ranjith Sreenivasan. The heightened security measures come after the court sentenced 15 men associated with the now-banned Popular Front of India to death for …

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Bihar caste survey: Is this Mandal 2.0?
1 year, 2 months ago

Bihar caste survey: Is this Mandal 2.0?

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 19, 2023 11:00 IST - 13 MINS READ By indicating a higher proportion of Other Backward Castes, at 63 per cent compared with the 55 per cent that has been speculated for a long time, the Bihar caste survey has given the opposition parties, especially the Janata Dal, or JD, and its coalition partner the Rashtriya Janata …

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What the caste survey means for Nitish-Lalu, and the BJP
1 year, 2 months ago

What the caste survey means for Nitish-Lalu, and the BJP

Hindustan Times  

The caste survey report conducted by the Bihar government and released earlier this week, in all probability is an indicator of another social churning in the state. “The impact of the caste survey would be discernible in the months to come as it has provided the actual numerical strength of caste groups, which could create a new set of leaders …

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Maratha reservation: BJP caught in a fix in Maharashtra
1 year, 2 months ago

Maratha reservation: BJP caught in a fix in Maharashtra

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 27, 2023 16:43 IST - 5 MINS READ Amidst rising tensions over Maratha OBC reservations in Maharashtra, the State’s BJP government finds itself in a quandary. Diverse OBC umbrella Faced with mounting pressure, the government yielded to Patil’s demand and formed a committee led by a retired High Court Judge to find a solution to the reservation …

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BJP promises empowerment of BCs in state
1 year, 7 months ago

BJP promises empowerment of BCs in state

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Bharatiya Janata Party has declared that the more than 50 per cent of the state’s population that comprise Backward Classes in Telangana state will be a major focus for it in the run-up to the Assembly elections later this year with its announcement of a BC Declaration. The state BJP, at its OBC Morcha convention here on Thursday, …

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Madhya Pradesh BJP expels key OBC leader for 'anti-Brahmin and anti-women' remarks
2 years, 4 months ago

Madhya Pradesh BJP expels key OBC leader for 'anti-Brahmin and anti-women' remarks

Firstpost  

Pritam Lodhi landed in soup after a video of him speaking at the birth anniversary of Rani Avanti Bai Lodhi on 17 August at Badarwas in Shivpuri went viral. In the video, he could be heard saying that Brahmin priests make people crazy, fool them and loot their money and food grain Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya …

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Yogi Adityanath tweaks caste formula ahead of polls
3 years, 2 months ago

Yogi Adityanath tweaks caste formula ahead of polls

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: With an eye on the upcoming crucial Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on Sunday tried to fine-tune its caste arithmetic and regional balance in the Yogi Adityanath-led government with a Cabinet expansion as the poll results will have an impact on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and also the Assembly polls in several states before it. …

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Battlefield Uttar Pradesh: How non-Yadav OBCs have thrown their weight behind BJP
3 years, 3 months ago

Battlefield Uttar Pradesh: How non-Yadav OBCs have thrown their weight behind BJP

India Today  

When it comes to elections in Uttar Pradesh, every major contender is in search of that perfect caste cocktail. The party that received less than 20 per cent non-Yadav OBC votes in the 2012 assembly election bagged thrice the vote share in the Lok Sabha polls two years later. The Lokniti-CSDS survey data suggest massive gains for the BJP cutting …

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Committed to holding caste census: BJP MP
3 years, 3 months ago

Committed to holding caste census: BJP MP

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s member of Parliament from Maharashtra, Pritam Munde, also the daughter of one of the party’s most prominent Other Backward Class leaders, the late Gopinath Munde, has reiterated the ruling party’s commitment to conduct a caste census, as articulated by her father on the floor of Parliament in March, 2011. Committed to holding caste census: BJP MP …

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BJP’s OBC Face From Maharashtra Kapil Patil Set To Take Oath As Minister
3 years, 5 months ago

BJP’s OBC Face From Maharashtra Kapil Patil Set To Take Oath As Minister

News 18  

Kapil Moreshwar Patil is set to take oath as minister in the Union Cabinet expansion on Wednesday. Patil, the 60-year-old MP, moved from Nationalist Congress Party to join Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014 and contested the Lok Sabha elections from Bhiwandi. Through him, the BJP is trying to attract OBC voters for Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections. He has even …

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Maharashtra BJP holds statewide protest to demand OBC quota in local bodies
3 years, 5 months ago

Maharashtra BJP holds statewide protest to demand OBC quota in local bodies

India TV News  

The Maharashtra unit of the BJP on Saturday held 'chakka jam' protest across the state to press for its demand of restoring reservation for the Other Backward Classes in local governing bodies. The BJP-Shiv Sena government in 2019 had allotted political reservation to OBCs in local governing bodies, but in March this year, the Supreme Court had read it down. …

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Days after BJP sarpanch shot dead in Kulgam, now party leader fired upon in J&K's Budgam
4 years, 4 months ago

Days after BJP sarpanch shot dead in Kulgam, now party leader fired upon in J&K's Budgam

Firstpost  

Abdul Hamid Najar, district president of Budgam BJP Other Backward Class Morcha, was shifted to a hospital. Budgam: Abdul Hamid Najar, district president of Budgam BJP Other Backward Class Morcha was shifted to a hospital after being fired upon by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, the police said on Sunday. This incident comes just days after BJP leader and sarpanch …

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