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Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet expansion sharpens BJP’s micro-caste strategy ahead of 2027 pollsUttar Pradesh government has expanded its cabinet. The move focuses on smaller caste groups within OBC and Scheduled Caste segments. This s...- 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. ...
- Tamil Nadu polls 2026: Avinashi contest tightens as TVK disrupts AIADMK-BJP strongholdThe Bharatiya Janata Party faces a tough contest in Avinashi. The constituency has been an AIADMK stronghold for decades. New entrants like...
- Mayawati's soft-launch of another nephew stokes party cadres' imaginationMayawati, the BSP chief, introduces her 26-year-old nephew Ishan Anand at a party meeting, sparking speculation about his entry into politi...
- BJP trying to woo BSP's dalit vote bank in Uttar PradeshBJP, which won 62 seats in the 2019 LS elections in UP, is eyeing to maximise its tally in the state by crossing 70. To achieve that goal, ...
- Congress made Charanjit Singh Channi Punjab CM for few months to grab Dalit votes: BJPBJP general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, who is the party's in-charge for the state, said, "This is an old habit of the Congress. It be...
- 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.
- Politicians play the caste formula in KarnatakaThe Vokkaligas and Lingayats are expected to vote according to their traditional preferences, for the JDS and BJP.
- Resigned Mayawati seeks comeback by regaining dalit vote bankAs soon as the Rajya Sabha met for the day on Tuesday, Mayawati was on her feet and demanded that she be given more time to speak on Dalit ...
- Can Mayawati's Muslim-Dalit focus make her the queen of UP?Her logic on why Muslims should vote for BSP was clear-cut: rather than split the votes between SP and Congress, UP Muslims’ best bet would...
- Dalit votes: Jitan Ram Manjhi fails to help NDA sail throughNDA’s strategy of banking on a substantial accretion to its Dalit vote bank through the addition of Manjhi has proved a complete dud.
- UP Assembly polls: BJP wooing Dalit vote bank of BSPThe party is in touch with several BSP leaders, who are feeling isolated or been expelled from the party in the recent past.
- Delhi polls: Mangolpuri will see three-pronged fight with AAP, BJP & CongressBJP, which came third in the 2013 polls, is also expected to be a strong contender this time with the party pulling out all stops to woo th...
- 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...
- Assembly polls: BSP goes solo, to hit Congress poll prospects in Haryana & MaharashtraThe party is well aware of the ‘optics' offered by a grand alliance and the possibility that opens up for Dalits, minorities and certain Ba...
- 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...
- Lok Sabha polls 2014: Panic-stricken Mayawati in overdrive to woo back dalitsSources said some RSS workers were trying to fix a tacit understanding with dalits asking them to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party in th...
- Support from Dalits in Maharashtra divided, no more with CongressDalits in Maharashtra, who constitute a large section of the voters, may be moving away from the UPA and looking at other parties.
- Congress 'using' Dalits as 'vote bank': Rajnath SinghBJP president hit out at Congress for doing "nothing for Dalits" in the country and "using" them as mere "vote bank".
- Karnataka parties squabbling over Dalit vote bankScheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes form close to 25% of Karnataka's population, and could potentially tilt the scale in constituencies w...
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