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Yogi should tell caste of all other deities: Akhilesh Yadav
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 13 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should disclose the caste of other deities too, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has said, while referring to Yogi's 'Hanuman-Dalit' remark.
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Ministries told to fill up SC, ST, OBC vacancies through Special Recruitme
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): The Department of Personnel and Training has (DoPT) issued instructions to all ministries and departments to constitute an in-house committee to identify backlog reserved vacancies, study of the root cause of backlog reserved vacancies, initiate measures to r
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Chouhan's 2016 'mai ka lal' comment could cost seats in MP, says senior BJ
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Dec 10 (ANI): Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should be blamed for his pro-caste comment on reservation if Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) loses the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, said senior BJP leader Raghunandan Sharma as several exit polls predict
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Lord Hanuman was a Dalit, slave of 'Manuwadi' people: BJP MP
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 4 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Bahraich Savitri Bai Phule has claimed that Lord Hanuman was a Dalit, but a slave of the 'Manuwadi' people. She said that rather than focusing on the construction of Ram Temple, the Central government should think
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Exclusive courts to deal with SC/ST atrocity cases in Haryana
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana), [India], Dec 4 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to take up the matter on priority basis regarding the setting up of exclusive courts to deal with the cases registered under the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tri
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Sushma fires fresh salvo at Rahul over his 'religion'
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Dec 1 (ANI): Union Minister for External Affairs and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Congress president Rahul Gandhi, stating that Gandhi and his party are confused about his religion and caste.
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Muslims aren't the only minorities, says Rajasthan Home Minister
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Udaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Dec 1 (ANI): With demands for reservations for the minority communities growing in a number of states, Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria has come up with a fresh theory to counter that. Kataria said that Muslims cannot be considered as minority in the c
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Satyapal Singh counters Adityanath, says caste system didn't exist in Rama
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 1 (ANI): Contrary to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's claim of Lord Hanuman being a Dalit, Union Minister Satyapal Singh has said caste system did not exist during the time of Ramayana.
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MP assembly elections: Polling begins, over 5 cr voters to caste vote
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov 28 (ANI): Polling for the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly seats has begun .
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BJD submits memorandum to President on post-matric scholarship scheme
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Nov 24 (ANI): A delegation of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), headed by Odisha Finance Minister Shashi Bhusan Behera, submitted a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday appealing to restore the original funding pattern of the post-matric scholarship s
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Piyush Goyal targets Congress over 'corruption, casteism and dynastic poli
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Nov 21 (ANI): Sharpening his attack on the Congress party, Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has said that that the party could not think beyond corruption, casteism and dynastic politics when it was in power.
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Patnaik urges Centre to restore SC student scholarship pattern
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Nov 19 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has written a letter to Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot on Saturday seeking his personal attention to restore the original funding pattern for post matric scholarship progra
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