Congress president and leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday took a veiled dig at Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his now-deleted social media post on the Varna system. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikajun Kharge Speaking in Rajya Sabha during the ongoing budget session, Kharge said, “I won't take the name …
BSP chief Mayawati on Friday attacked the Samajwadi Party, saying it should not "insult" the marginalised sections of society by calling them "Shudra". Ms. Mayawati's remarks came a day after senior Samajwadi Party leader and national general secretary Swami Prasad Maurya said only women and Shudras can feel the pain of the "derogatory" remarks made against them in the guise …
The term ‘Other Backward Classes’, or OBCs, is an administrative category. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karupusamy, political theorists and the editors of The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, seem to think so. From a Shudra perspective, the suggestion that they should support one Brahminical national party instead of another Brahminical national party because the former is ‘secular’ …
