Will 2026 Tamil Nadu elections be a survival test for key present & former AIADMK leaders like EPS, OPS, Sasikala and DhinakaranTamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026 are shaping up as a crucial test of legacy, leadership and survival within the AIADMK camp, still deeply...
23 Apr, 2026, 08.07 AM IST
Caste calculus at play: How Tamil Nadu’s key communities could shape the electoral battleTamil Nadu elections are shaped by dominant caste blocs, including Vanniyars in the north, Gounders in the west, and Thevars in the south. ...
17 Apr, 2026, 05.00 PM IST
Delhi Assembly Elections: Dalit votes may split between AAP, BJP Congress, say expertsAhead of Delhi Assembly polls, the AAP faces challenges from Congress and BJP for the crucial Dalit votes. Though AAP previously secured st...
24 Jan, 2025, 04.21 PM IST
2024 UP Lok Sabha Polls: BJP, SP locked in battle for Dalit votes of 'weakened' BSP in Ambedkar NagarThe seat was a BSP bastion between 1996 and 2004 during which Mayawati won the seat thrice. In 2019, BSP candidate Ritesh Pandey won the se...
23 May, 2024, 05.22 PM IST
Battle for Lucknow 2022: UP's 86 SC-ST seats on BSP radarBSP chief Mayawati held a marathon meeting with the Vidhan Sabha chiefs of each of these reserved seats on Tuesday in Lucknow and reviewed ...
24 Nov, 2021, 07.49 AM IST
Can Maya pass vote-bank test? It holds key to 8 seatsOut of the 8 Lok Sabha seats going to polls on April 18 in Uttar Pradesh, 4 are reserved for SCs.
14 Apr, 2019, 10.11 AM IST
View: The Mayawati factor and the ties in the heartlandThe need for building alliances is particularly important in the Hindi heartland as it has large number of parliamentary seats and is the b...
25 Dec, 2018, 10.16 AM IST
Politicians play the caste formula in KarnatakaThe Vokkaligas and Lingayats are expected to vote according to their traditional preferences, for the JDS and BJP.
11 May, 2018, 10.40 AM IST
UP Elections 2017: Results backlash against SP, BSP’s identity politicsBoth the champions of identity politics — BSP and SP —thought 2014 was an aberration and these communities will return to their original te...
16 Mar, 2017, 10.44 AM IST
UP polls: Here's what happened to muslim, jat and dalit votesHere are some crucial insights to what happened to Muslim, Jat and Dalit votes in the Uttar Pradesh 2017 assembly elections
15 Mar, 2017, 11.44 AM IST
After getting wiped out in Lok Sabha elections, Mayawati plots comebackAfter failing to win even a single seat in parl, the Dalit leader is getting down to the task of reorganising the BSP as she copes with the...
20 Jun, 2015, 11.26 AM IST
Delhi elections 2015: Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP breaks rules of identity politics, dents core vote bases of BJP & CongressTraditionally, the upper castes of Delhi had voted for the BJP in sizeable numbers, particularly the Punjabi Khatri and the Bania communiti...
23 Jan, 2015, 06.59 AM IST
BSP to file candidates from all 70 assembly constituencies in Delhi: MayawatiIn the last assembly elections, the Dalit vote in slums and unauthorized colonies, which was split between Congress and BSP till 2008, went...
17 Jan, 2015, 01.09 PM IST
Mayawati on mission to woo back dalit vote bank; reaches out to All-India Dalit employees’ federationWhen riots broke out in the area, Mayawati was scarcely seen on the ground, her support base which also included Muslims and a few upper ca...
04 Sep, 2014, 02.52 AM IST
UP Assembly Election 2012: BSP has a poor track record on reserved seatsThe BSP is a dalit-based party but its track record in re served constituencies has been poor in comparison to other parties.
09 Feb, 2012, 09.56 AM IST
- Consensus on Meira for Speaker
Lok Sabha is all set to get a Dalit woman as its Speaker. Ms Meira Kumar, who resigned from Union Cabinet on Sunday, has become consensus c...
02 Jun, 2009, 05.13 AM IST
- Mayawati claims BSP will be kingmaker in Karnataka
BSP supremo Mayawati has claimed that her party would emerge as the kingmaker in the upcoming assembly polls in Karnataka.
07 May, 2008, 03.45 AM IST