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How political showdown over Ambedkar's legacy could impact Delhi Assembly polls
4 days, 13 hours ago

How political showdown over Ambedkar's legacy could impact Delhi Assembly polls

India Today  

With the Delhi Assembly elections slated for early February next year, the alleged disrespect of Dr BR Ambedkar by Home Minister Amit Shah during the Constitution debate in Parliament has set a new narrative in the Capital’s politics. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has struggled to wrest power in Delhi for 26 years — initially from the Congress and more …

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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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Agra Lok Sabha Elections: Which Way Will the City of Taj Sway? A Look at Key Factors
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Agra Lok Sabha Elections: Which Way Will the City of Taj Sway? A Look at Key Factors

News 18  

The Agra Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party: The Samajwadi Party has not been able to win the Agra seat since actor-politician Raj Babbar won the Lok Sabha constituency on SP tickets in 1999 and 2004 general elections. The Samajwadi Party has not been able to win the Agra seat since …

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Election In Pincodes: Amid welfare push, the shifting sands of Dalit politics in Agra
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Election In Pincodes: Amid welfare push, the shifting sands of Dalit politics in Agra

Hindustan Times  

Clumps of darkness are descending on a young man as he rappels down the remnants of a 60-foot stage, its skeleton stripped of its cloth finery but still held up by gaunt poles of bamboo-throwing menacing shadows. “It is what makes Agra India’s Dalit capital.” This year, the stage was designed in the likeness of the London School of Economics, …

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Karauli-Dholpur Lok Sabha Election: In This Rajasthan Constituency, It's a Jatav vs Jatav Battle
8 months, 1 week ago

Karauli-Dholpur Lok Sabha Election: In This Rajasthan Constituency, It's a Jatav vs Jatav Battle

News 18  

Karauli-Dholpur Lok Sabha constituency is designated a Scheduled Caste parliamentary seat. For the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the candidates in the fray are BJP’s Indu Devi Jatav and Congress’ Bhajan Lal Jatav. While the two districts of Karauli and Dholpur have traditionally leaned towards the Congress, the BJP took the reins of their parliamentary seat in 2014 majorly due to …

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Keeping up with UP | As young leaders emerge, Dalit community seeks their share of power
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Keeping up with UP | As young leaders emerge, Dalit community seeks their share of power

Hindustan Times  

Young leadership is taking centre stage in Dalit politics around the country and certainly in Uttar Pradesh. Anand launched his campaign on April 6 from the Muslim-Dalit dominated Nagina constituency from where another upcoming Dalit leader, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad is contesting his first Lok Sabha election as the nominee of four-year-old Azad Samaj Party that he founded in …

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Fight for the Dalit vote hots up in Uttar Pradesh
9 months, 2 weeks 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 …

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Fight for Dalit vote heats up as BJP sniffs opportunity amid Mayawati's losing grip and Akhilesh's outreach
1 year, 8 months ago

Fight for Dalit vote heats up as BJP sniffs opportunity amid Mayawati's losing grip and Akhilesh's outreach

India Today  

With a year left for the grand finale Lok Sabha elections in 2024, real politicking has started in the most crucial state of Uttar Pradesh which sends the highest number of MPs to Parliament. BSP was routed in 2022 state elections recording 12.9 per cent vote share versus 22.4 per cent in 2017 and winning only a single seat. BSP …

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Has the Elephant Forever Lost Its Way? BSP's UP Results Show the Party May be Over for Mayawati
2 years, 9 months ago

Has the Elephant Forever Lost Its Way? BSP's UP Results Show the Party May be Over for Mayawati

News 18  

With just one seat to its name, Bahujan Samaj Party has displayed its most dismal performance in Uttar Pradesh. Political analyst Sharad Pradhan had told India Today in an earlier report that “BSP chief’s self-centered ideology, a shift of major leaders, ineffective conventional approach and Twitter-based politics has badly affected the party’s image on the ground.” Dr. Lalji Prasad Nirmal, …

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The Dalits of Shabbirpur wait for Ambedkar statue
2 years, 10 months ago

The Dalits of Shabbirpur wait for Ambedkar statue

The Hindu  

February 13, 2022 09:53 pm | Updated November 20, 2022 11:45 pm IST - Shabbirpur More than four-and-a-half years after violent clashes broke out between Thakurs and Dalits in Shabbirpur, a sprawling village 15 km from Deoband town in Saharanpur district, both the communities are still grappling with the distrust caused by the May 2017 incident that left one dead …

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Jatavs vs non-Jatavs, Mayawati's losing grip & Akhilesh's Ambedkarite outreach: The Dalit conundrum in UP
2 years, 10 months ago

Jatavs vs non-Jatavs, Mayawati's losing grip & Akhilesh's Ambedkarite outreach: The Dalit conundrum in UP

India Today  

As polling approaches in Uttar Pradesh, all eyes are on the crucial Dalit vote, which accounts for 21 per cent of the state’s population. This was how UP’s 85 reserved seats voted since 2007 With 54 per cent of the Dalit population, Jatavs dominate the SC vote. Around 14 per cent of Mayawati’s 22 per cent vote share in 2017 …

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In stronghold Agra, Dalits start speaking of BSP again
2 years, 10 months ago

In stronghold Agra, Dalits start speaking of BSP again

Hindustan Times  

His eyes have begun to glaze over with a cataract, his voice croaks with age. He was a young man in his teens in 1956 when Dr BR Ambedkar came to the place where he has lived all his life, the Chakki Paat Jatav Basti in Agra, and inaugurated a “Buddh Vihar”, a small temple to Lord Buddha, which now …

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Mayawati plays up ‘soft Hindutva’ as BJP readies for Dalit-connect rallies
3 years, 2 months ago

Mayawati plays up ‘soft Hindutva’ as BJP readies for Dalit-connect rallies

Hindustan Times  

LUCKNOW: In line with majority of political parties tapping soft Hindutva ahead of the 2022 UP assembly polls, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said if elected to power her government would continue with the present Bharatiya Janata Party government’s focus on development of Hindu religious cities of Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi and other religious places. Some BJP leaders felt that …

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Why UP politics looks more Brahmin-centric for 2022 elections
3 years, 4 months ago

Why UP politics looks more Brahmin-centric for 2022 elections

India Today  

On July 23, the Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati kicked off ‘Brahmin Sammelan’ from Ayodhya. However, the community’s support for the BJP fell below 40 per cent in 2007 assembly elections, where Mayawati’s BSP won the majority. This trend was again repeated in the 2017 assembly and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections when the party got 80 per cent and …

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UP Next: In BSP, Jatavs Saw Opportunity to Acquire Power. Mayawati Must Deliver in 2022
3 years, 5 months ago

UP Next: In BSP, Jatavs Saw Opportunity to Acquire Power. Mayawati Must Deliver in 2022

News 18  

Have you heard the stories about a Jatav named Sanwal Das who rode a chariot made of silver and had a ‘personal’ ghat on the banks of Ganga in Kanpur, in pre-independence India? Education and Empowerment Swami Achutanand, founder of the Adi-Hindu movement in North India, inspired Jatavs to get educated even before Babasaheb Ambedkar’s call. Further, the emergence of …

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