"We have given many promises. The most important among them is that we are going to appoint a Chief Minister from the Backward Classes community here. We would like to stop reservations for Muslims and redistribute them to SC, ST and OBCs. We have also promised to give vertical reservation t
Launching the party's campaign for the Telangana assembly election on Wednesday, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati took a swipe at the previous Congress government on Wednesday, stating that the OBC community got reservations due to the struggles and hard work of the BSP, not becau
"We will do away with the four per cent reservation for Muslims and we will give those to SCs. OBCs, and STs," Amit Shah said while campaigning at Telangana's Jagtial on Monday.
It was in 2014 that the BRS [then TRS] supremo promised a 12 percent reservation for Muslims of the state for the first time in Shadnagar a town about 40 km from Hyderabad.
Reacting to the BJP's manifesto in Telangana, Bharatiya Janata Party OBC Morcha National President K Laxman said on Saturday that this manifesto is backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's guarantee, due to which people have faith in this.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah targetted Rahul Gandhi and his family on Friday, saying that all four generations of the 'Gandhi Parivaar' were against the development of the Other Backward Class (OBC).
"The people are not trusting the Congress manifesto announced by Kharge because they are fed up with them. People have voted for the Congress 11 times. They have only guaranteed dynastic politics, corruption and appeasement politics," Laxman said.
"I raised the question of caste census. Asked PM Modi- You call yourself OBC, tell me how many OBCs are there in this country? Modi ji's reply came - There is only one caste in the country, the poor. If there is no caste in the country, then why does Narendra Modi call himself OBC?" said the
Congress leader Pramod Tiwari on Tuesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over 'caste politics' and said that out of four states, where the grand old party has formed government 75 per cent of Chief Ministers are from the OBC community.
Launching a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has said that Modi ji is sitting on a throne of responsibility and will have to answer questions.
Targetting Congress over its stand on the reports of the Mandal Commission, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday claimed that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was against the implementation of the recommendations laid by the backward panel.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh and said "PM wears suits worth lakhs of rupees but I wear this white t-shirt only."