The stage is set for the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government in Telangana to undertake a caste survey across the state, which was a major promise of the Congress in its manifesto for the November ...

Jat communities BJP veteran Anil Vij finds a place in Nayab Saini Cabinet Large chunk of the ministers are from OBC community Thirteen BJP MLAs took oath as Haryana ministers on Thursday as the BJP ...

The BJP formed government in Haryana after logging a stunning victory by winning 48 out of 90 seats, its biggest-ever tally in the state elections. Nayab Singh Saini, who was the chief minister face ...

The Supreme Court of India declared caste segregation in Indian prisons UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The court stated that the dignity of all should be maintained even if they are in prison regardless of their ...

Central to these strategies is the consideration of caste dynamics, religious affiliations, and patterns from previous elections. An intriguing development is the Mahavikas Aghadi's contemplation ...

The Telangana government has initiated the process of a comprehensive household caste survey in the state aimed at targeted and equitable resource distribution among all communities. With this ...

On October 3, the Supreme Court declared that provisions in state prison rules that used caste as the basis to allocate work to inmates and segregate them were unconstitutional. In a landmark ...

Voters from other caste communities also mentioned such community meetings before the election, but their prevalence was notably lower compared with those of Jats and other OBCs (Table 2).

PUSHED on the backfoot by the Congress on the issue of caste, with its demand for a caste census and its campaign that a strong BJP government would tinker with reservations, the BJP led by Prime ...

Haryana's 2024 election saw BJP capitalise on caste dynamics, countering Jat dominance and winning key votes from OBCs and Dalits. The year 1968 marked a watershed moment in Haryana’s history.

the party’s outreach to Dalits has come in handy as it has successfully increased its tally in the Scheduled Caste (SC) reserved category seats. In Haryana, there are 17 reserved seats ...

India's prisons should not discriminate based on caste, including assigning "impure" work to inmates from disadvantaged communities, the Supreme Court has said. The Supreme Court in India ordered ...