Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in the Scheduled Caste People's Representatives Conference (Garhwal Division) program in Dehradun today.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that questions have been raised regarding the prioritization of specific communities after the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar conducted a caste survey and further urged the Bihar government to address the issues raised in this survey.
The newly formed Congress government in Telangana implemented the first out of six guarantees announced by the party in its manifesto. Minister of Transport and Backward Caste Welfare Ponnam Prabhakar said that the scheme would be reviewed after 15 days if there were any issues.
On Mahaparinirvan Diwas, commemorating the death anniversary of BR Ambedkar, the Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes on Wednesday presented a detailed report outlining key recommendations.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday accused the state Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of indulging minority appeasement politics while doing "injustice" to Dalits and tribal communities.
The election results to the four states in which Congress lost its governments in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and failed to dislodge the BJP government from Madhya Pradesh came as a huge disappointment to the party leaders with the party now out of power in a vast swathe of Hindi heartland
"Modi ji is in the hearts of the people. Today's election results have proved that the days of appeasement and caste politics are over. New India votes on Politics of Performance," Shah posted on X.
Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam blamed people with a Left mindset within the Congress party for the party trailing behind in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP crossed the majority mark in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan and said that people have rejected the Congress for playing caste-baste politics.