Search For "upper caste"
Middle-class voting against BJP: Akhilesh Yadav on PM's "Mangalsutra" scar
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
"Those who had taken away hard-earned money of poor and women during demonetization are talking about jewellery today. The truth is that the middle class, who have one or two pieces of jewellery, is also voting against the BJP because the middle and lower middle-class people are also affecte
Read More
"He belongs to upper caste": JDU's Neeraj Kumar questions PM Modi's OBC st
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
As the BJP and the opposition INDIA alliance are at loggerheads over the caste-based census, Janta Dal United (JDU) leader Neeraj Kumar has alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi belonged to the upper caste and he misled the voters by saying that he belonged to OBC.
Read More
"RN Ravi failed to act ": DMK hits out at Tamil Nadu Governor
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"In the North, an upper caste man can urinate on a lower caste boy and nobody can question. That is the kind of social justice from Mr Ravi's area. How he is acting towards the lower caste people I don't know...I am calling him Mr Ravi because he has failed to act as a Governor," Elangovan s
Read More
UCC row: "...why cut Minority Welfare budget by 40 per cent?" Owaisi quest
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Amid the row over the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for reducing the minority welfare budget by 40 per cent and claimed that Muslim upper caste (UC) people are
Read More
MP: Upper caste villagers pelt stones after dalit groom sits on mare for w
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
The incident occurred in Chorai village under Bakswaha police station limits in the district on Monday evening.
Read More
Tamil Nadu: 12 persons arrested for assaulting Dalits during temple festiv
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Four Dalit men were allegedly attacked by upper caste Hindus after a dispute arose at a temple festival at Madurai in Tamil Nadu, said police. Twelve persons have been arrested in this connection, police said.
Read More
10pc quota in education, employment, a ray of hope for economically backwa
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said the 103rd amendment made to the Constitution by central government to provide 10 per cent reservation in employment and education for the economically backward upper castes it is a ray of hope for people.
Read More
Cong leader Udit Raj calls SC "casteist" after EWS quota verdict, clarifie
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
In another tweet, he clarified that he was not opposing the reservation of poor upper castes but was only mentioning the SC's vision in the matter of Indira Sawhney.
Read More
SC grants pre-arrest bail to Dalit man, accused of abducting wife
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] August 27 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Saturday quashed a non-bailable warrant and granted pre-arrest bail to a Dalit man who married an upper-caste woman and is facing a case of abducting her.
Read More
Was paraphrasing what Ambedkar said: JNU VC on her 'caste of Gods' remarks
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 24 (ANI): A day after her remarks during a lecture in which she had said that anthropologically gods do not belong to the upper caste, JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said it is to the credit of Hinduism that great dissenters from Gautam Buddha to
Read More
SC issues notice to wife, father-in-law of Dalit man charged with abductin
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): The Supreme Court has issued notice to the wife and father-in-law of a Dalit man who married an upper-caste woman and has been facing a case of abducting his wife.
Read More
SC grants interim protection to Dalit man facing charges of abducting wife
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): A Dalit man, who married an upper-caste woman and is facing an arrest warrant for abducting her, has been granted interim protection from arrest by the Supreme Court.
Read More