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UP polls: Mayawati dubs BJP as 'Bharatiya Jumla Party'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Faizabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb. 22 (ANI): Continuing her tirade against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday dubbed the saffron party as the 'Bharatiya Jumla Party', while reiterating her claim that provision of reservation
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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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'Strange' that Naga Govt. is not giving opportunity to women: Co
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 21 (ANI): With the failure to contain the tribal agitation over offering 33 percent reservation for women in the Nagaland Government, the Congress on Tuesday expressed displeasure, citing it was strange that the state which runs the best system in the world didn'
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Cook knew it was time to `step aside`, says Strauss
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Feb. 7 (ANI): England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) director of cricket Andrew Strauss believes Alastair Cook's decision to step down from the post of Test captain stemmed from his reservations about "how much he had left in the tank".
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SC agrees to hear Rajasthan Govt.'s plea on Gujjar reservation
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 3 (ANI): In a big relief to the Rajasthan Government, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a petition of the state government against the high court judgment which quashed the reservation of five percent offered to the Special Backward Class (SBC), including the
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Army deployed as Nagaland tense over local body polls
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kohima (Nagaland) [India], Feb. 2 (ANI): In the wake of protestors torching government buildings for giving 33 percent reservations for women in the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections, five army columns have been deployed on Thursday to aid the government to prevent any untoward incident in
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BJP will end reservation if it forms govt. in UP: Mayawati
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bulandshar (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb. 2 (ANI): Escalating her attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday alleged that constant interference of the saffron party leaders in matters associated with the Muslim Personal Law Board like th
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BJP-RSS conspiring to end reservation, alleges Mayawati
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Phagwara (Punjab) [India], Jan. 30 (ANI): Raking up the much-talked about issue of reservation in the run up to the assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Monday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of conspiring to end res
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BJP-RSS keen on ending reservation: Azam Khan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan. 30 (ANI): Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Monday said that his party's electoral alliance with the Congress in Uttar Pradesh aims at bringing an end to the fascist mindset and alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamseva
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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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Manmohan Vaidya back-tracks post furore, says RSS 'in favour' of
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Jan. 20 (ANI): After raising a storm post his statement quoting B.R. Ambedkar against continuation of reservation, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Manmohan Vaidya on Friday retracted his earlier comment saying that the organisation has always been in f
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Murthal rape: Women activists welcome court order, demand action against p
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan. 20 (ANI): Welcoming the Punjab and Haryana High Courts' orders to track the accused involved in the mass kidnapping and rape case during the Jat agitation for reservation last year, social activist Abha Singh on Friday said it is important to take acti
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