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If comes to power, BJP will remove reservation for underprivileged: Mayawa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Gonda (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb. 21 (ANI): In Uttar Pradesh, where minority vote plays a key role in deciding its political fate, Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati, while addressing a rally in Gonda, on Tuesday said that if a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government is for
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Mayawati responds to PM Modi, dubs him as 'Negative Dalit Man'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb. 20 (ANI): Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as 'Behenji Sampatti Party', party supremo Mayawati launched a blistering counter-attack and said that the real meaning of Narendra Damodardas Modi was
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Rohith Vemula was not a Dalit, certificate acquired by fraudulent means: G
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Feb. 14 (ANI): The District Level Scrutiny Committee, which reviewed Rohith Vemula's Dalit status, today submitted its final report and stated that the deceased was not a Dalit.
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SP, Congress common minimum programme focuses on employment, Dalits
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb. 11 (ANI): Eyeing victory in Uttar Pradesh polls, the Samajwadi Party and Congress on Saturday launched the common minimum programme here.
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Mayawati: Daughter of Dalits or modern day Marie Antoinette?
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
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President Mukherjee backs govt's pro-poor, pro-Dalit policies
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 31 (ANI): While enumerating the government's policies ahead of the Budget Session, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the epicentre of the strategies taken have always been for the welfare of 'gareeb', 'peedit', 'Dalit and 'v
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Upper caste students boycott meal cooked by Dalit lady
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Tikamgarh (Madhya Pradesh)[India], Jan. 29(ANI): In a shocking incident related to caste-based discrimination, the children of a government school in Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, allegedly refused to consume mid-day meal cooked by a Dalit woman.
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'Anti-Dalit RSS', BJP conspiring to polarise votes: Congress on
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 20 (ANI): Post Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Mohan Vaidya raising a furore by quoting Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar against reservation, in a belligerent attack the Congress Party on Friday trained guns at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that this is
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Mayawati is not daughter of 'Dalit' but wealth: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow(Uttar Pradesh)[India], Jan. 16(ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday launched a scathing attack on Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) supremo Mayawati, saying that she is a daughter of money and added that by blaming the saffron party she is trying to gain sympathy among voters.
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BSP not a party of 'Dalits', but for all under one umbrella, say
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 10 (ANI): After a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader moved the Election Commission (EC) against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati accusing her of seeking votes in the name of caste and demanded that her party be debarred from contesting elections, party leader
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Gujarat: NHRC issues notice over victimization of Dalit prisoners in Amrel
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Saurashtra [India], Jan. 6 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued a notice to the Inspector General (Prisons), Gujarat over victimization of Dalit prisoners by upper castes inmates in Amreli district jail.
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Kambli shies away from Dalit status due to fear of ousting from Page 3: Ud
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 29(ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Udit Raj on Thursday said that former Indian cricketer Vinod Kambli disclosed him that he faced discrimination many times but now he shies away as his Dalit status might oust him from Page 3 circuit.
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