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"Social justice will only be achieved when caste-based census is conducted
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
In his maiden speech as an MP in the Lok Sabha, Azad emphasized the atrocities the minorities, SC, ST, and OBC are facing in the country,
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Tamil Nadu CM Stalin moves resolution seeking nationwide caste census
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday moved a resolution in the State Assembly urging the Central Government to immediately commence the census work, along with a caste-based population census this time.
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"BJP has always been against reservation": Tejashwi Yadav after Patna HC s
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
After Patna High Court on Thursday set aside the state government's amendments to increase the reservation for Backward Classes, Extremely Backward Classes, Scheduled Tribes, and Scheduled Castes in jobs and educational institutions, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav targeted BJP and said the par
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Maharashtra LoP Vijay Wadettiwar writes to PM Modi, CM Shinde to resolve c
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Vijay Wadettiwar wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde urging to resolve the caste-based politics in the state.
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LS polls: PMK's Anbumani Ramadoss says party will push for caste-based cen
Updated : 1 year, 12 months ago IST
He also criticized opposition leader Edappadi Palaniswami for likening the PMK to 'Vedanthangal birds', a jibe intended to hit out at the party's history of switching sides between the AIADMK and the DMK. "We are not Vendanthangal birds, we are Vendanthangal sanctuary. We will protect who
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"We are not doing any caste-based politics," says Congress MP Syed Naseer
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Congress leader Syed Naseer Hussain on Thursday said that his party is not doing any caste-based politics and that a caste census will only help them formulate policies for all sections of society.
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Rahul Gandhi's big attack on PM Modi, says 'PM wants youth to chant Jai Sh
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Addressing a gathering in Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the Congress MP also advocated for the caste-based census and said that conducting the survey will ensure social justice for the people.
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"Eradicate caste-based segregation in prison": MHA urges states, labels pr
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently advised all the states and the Union Territories (UTs) against the practice of "segregating prisoners and assigning tasks based on their caste", urging them to remove such "discriminatory" provisions from their manuals or legislation and to halt
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Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil refuses to end strike, ca
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Manoj Jarange Patil, the activist who led the movement to provide caste-based reservations to Marathas and is on a hunger strike, though welcomed the reservation bill introduced and passed in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, but contended that the reservation which has bee
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"First step to justice...": Rahul reaffirms push for caste census after Te
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Amid tectonic political churn at the hustings in Bihar, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday reiterated the party's push for a caste-based census across the country.
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Uttar Pradesh emerging as country's most progressive state: CM Yogi
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Wednesday that those involved in nepotism, caste-based politics, and division had caused an identity crisis for the youth of Uttar Pradesh.
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SC notice to Centre, States on plea to curb caste-based discrimination in
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
CJI Chandrachud told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was present in the courtroom, that this is a very important issue that has been raised.
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