West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that "Yogyashree" scheme designed to offer free-of-cost training to SC/ST students of the state for admission in engineering and medical courses would now be extended to boys and girls of Minority, OBC and General categories also.
Accusing the Congress party of indulging in "vote bank politics", Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticized the opposition for undermining the constitutional rights of Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC), stating that these groups needed to be prot
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the reservation based on religion is unconstitutional adding that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is against any kind of Muslim reservation.
After PM Narendra Modi's 'Mujra' remark on the INDIA bloc, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday wrote a letter to PM, saying that he has said many baseless, factless and false things to the people.
"But today, I give a guarantee to the country and Bihar that as long as Modi is alive, I will not let the rights of SC/ST/OBC and extremely backward classes be snatched away. For Modi, the Constitution is supreme, and the spirit of Baba Saheb Ambedkar is supreme," PM Modi said.
"This Ghamandiya Gathbandhan is anti-Dalit, anti-ST, anti-SC, and anti-OBC because they want to appease Muslims by snatching their reservation. Babasaheb Ambedkar has also said that there will be no reservation on the basis of religion," Nadda said while addressing a public rally in Uttar Pr
Coming down heavily on Congress and SP, CM Yogi Adityanath said, "They have no agenda and the alliance of Congress and SP was done to break into the reservation of SC, ST, and OBC. They say that if they come to power, they will take half of the reservation rights of SCs and STs and give them
"The man in question was drunk, was creating a nuisance, and was abusing me and my wife. He accused me of supporting the BC, SC, ST, and Minority communities despite being a Kamma. I got enraged over his baseless accusations and the yellow media blew the incident out of proportion without kn
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Trinamool Congress and said that infiltrators are flourishing under the Mamata Banerjee rule and guaranteed to the people of West Bengal that nobody can stop the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the state.
"In the census of 1951, there were 88 per cent Hindus and 9.5 per cent Muslims while in the census of 2011, there were 79.8 per cent Hindus and 14.5 per cent Muslims...The population of SC, ST, and OBC will increase based only on natural causes. But the population of these people will grow
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday while addressing a public rally in Telangana's Bhongir, claimed that if BJP comes to power, it will increase the reservation of SC, ST, and OBC and will end the Muslim reservation.
Further, the Union Minister targeted Congress over the reservation and said that given this large and increasing population of Muslims, some political parties want to alter the Constitution and give religious-based reservations.