Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday that BJP will end reservation for Muslims in Telangana and provide the benefit to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes
The Election Commission of India has taken cognizance of alleged Model Code of Conduct violations by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Both BJP and INC had raised allegations of causing hatred and division based on religion, caste, community, or language
They are among the 13.96 lakh eligible voters who are supposed to cast their votes in the second phase of the general elections to Lok Sabha scheduled on April 26. The vocal campaign for the politically crucial ST reserved constituency came to an end on Wednesday, Chief Electoral Officer
"Congress wants to make different castes fight against one another, they want to do appeasement. Here the Congress party has tried to make the Gurjars fight against the Meenas," Meena said speaking to ANI on Wednesday.
More than 11,000 voters who had enrolled in the electoral rolls of the East Tripura parliamentary constituency have exercised their franchise through various special voting procedures ahead of the poll day on April 26.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that he was not interested in caste but in justice, adding that it's his life's mission and not a "political issue."
The National Commission for Backward Castes has criticised the Karnataka government's decision to categorise the entire Muslim community in the state under the OBC category and said that it is causing 'injustice' for the OBC community.
As campaigning is peaking up amid the Lok Sabha elections, opposition leaders from the INDIA bloc hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over Prime Minister's "Mangalsutra" scare, over the BJP Surat MP winning unopposed and reiterating its promise to conduct a caste census.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress on Tuesday, accusing it of attempting to provide reservations to Muslims in Andhra Pradesh in 2004 by reducing Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) reservations, disregarding the Constitution.
Addressing a rally in Karnataka's Chitradurga, she said that the Congress will passs a constitutional amendment to raise the 50 per cent cap on reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs