The UPSC recently announced a notification for recruiting Joint Secretaries, Directors, and Deputy Secretaries through lateral entry. This decision has ignited criticism from opposition parties, who claim it undermines the reservation rights of OBCs, SCs, and STs.
The UPSC recently announced a notification for recruiting Joint Secretaries, Directors, and Deputy Secretaries through lateral entry. This decision has ignited criticism from opposition parties, who claim it undermines the reservation rights of OBCs, SCs, and STs.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar asserted that the caste census should be conducted to get the exact number of population of tribal, SCs, OBCs, minorities etc which will ultimately assist the Centre in devising policies.
Responding to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, who claimed that over 15,000 medical and dental seats have been secured for OBC students over the last three acedemic years, BJP Tamil Nadu unit president K Annamalai said that the all-India quota for medical admission was introduced in 1
Congress leader Randeep Surjewala termed the Union Budget 2024-25 as "jhunjhuna budget" and alleged that there is no relief for farmers while weaker sections such as Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs have been ignored
"Nayab Singh's cabinet has brought three major reforms for Haryana. The first is that it has been decided to increase the creamy layer limit from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh, providing 8% reservation to Group A and 5% to Group B in Panchayats and Municipal Corporations," Amit Shah said while addr
Referring to former prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi for "opposing" for OBC reservation, the Union minister Shah said, "In 1957, the Kaka Kalelkar Commission was constituted to review the reservation for OBCs, but Congress didn't implement its suggestions for years. In 1980,
In a scathing attack on Congress leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge "shielded" someone who should have borne the brunt of the party's loss in the recently concluded Lok Sabh
"Mamata Banerjee has no faith in the judiciary. A few days ago when the Calcutta High Court gave its verdict that the practice of giving reservations to Muslims in the name of OBCs, is against the soul of our Constitution and hence unconstitutional, Mamata Banerjee said that it is BJP's verd
Maharashtra Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal has asserted that the government is not against the Maratha reservation, however, the Other Backward Class (OBC) community should not be "ignored".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the Trinamool Congress-led government in West Bengal cheated the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the state and snatched away their rights to appease the Muslim communities.
Tripura OBC Morcha President Malina Debnath on Thursday slammed the TMC government led by Mamata Banerjee's government in West Bengal for adding Muslims to the OBCs category and manipulating them for the vote bank politics.