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Is Jat-Gujjar vote BJP’s answer to UP gathbandhan?Past election results show that the two communities played a key role in at least 25 seats, almost all of which were won by BJP in the 2014...- Ajit Singh a big leader but outsider here: Sanjeev BalyanAjit Singh is a big leader. But the truth is woh bahari hain (he is an outsider) and I have been with the people all along,” Balyan told ET...
- Kairana bypoll: How BJP plans to ensure no repeat of Gorakhpur, Phulpur debaclesBypoll might have been swung by the Jats, who backed BJP in both 2014 and 2017, but the sugarcane dues in the region and Ajit Singh’s latch...
- On Mulayam Singh prodding, Muslims, Jats agree to take back riot casesAround 1,400 people from the region were booked under various cases during the riots that killed 63 and displaced more than 50,000 four yea...
- UP polls 2017: The war has just begunSunday ET travelled to Meerut and Muzaffarnagar to gauge the mood and prospects of candidates in key constituencies.
- BSP’s ‘Muslim-parasti’, SP’s ‘kushasan’ boost BJP base: BJP UP vice-presidentRana says BJP will win at least 55 of the 71seats in western UP; party will identify real culprits of Muzaffarnagar riots if it comes to po...
- Jat stir: 14 arrested for rioting, damaging government propertyFourteen people were today arrested from Jind district for allegedly damaging government property and indulging in rioting during the Jat a...
- Jats in a bind: Be loyal to Ajit Singh or buy into Narendra ModiAs western UP goes to polls on Thursday, the numerically preponderant and politically volatile jats are a community torn from within.
- Lok Sabha Elections 2014: In Raajhar, Muslims, Dalits fall silent after Amit Shah's visitRaajhar village in Shamli district grabbed headlines after Narendra Modi's aide Amit Shah delivered his "revenge" speech here last week..
- Muzaffarnagar makes peace with Mulayam Singh Yadav and Samajwadi PartyAt least 3,500 riot victims from 42 villages had found refuge in the Loi camp after the Muzaffaranagr riots where about 51,000 people were ...
- Amit Shah trying to woo Jats and Dalits by playing riots cardWhile the party hopes to win over east UP riding on its PM candidate Narendra Modi's candidature from Varanasi, it calculates that playing ...
- Much ado about jat vote? Which side they will allignIn 2007, 16 Jats were elected to UP assembly. Five years later, after Mayawati worked on social engineering minus Jats, community MLAs were...
- Rashid Alvi questions Jat reservation; Congress disagreesAlvi today struck a discordant note on Jat reservation issue, saying it sent a "wrong signal" to the Muslim community after the Muzaffarnag...
- ET Analysis: Polarisation in UP’s sugar belt helps BJPHafiz Abbas, a representative of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind that oversees several relief camps in the riot-hit Muzaffarnagar region, is an angry m...
- Muzaffarnagar riots: Hindu-Muslim violence organised to rake in electoral benefitsThe BJP's objective was to wrest Jat votes from the RLD to challenge the SP or the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 26 Lok Sabha seats in weste...
- Toxic caste politics allowed Muzaffarnagar riots to spin out of controlMuzzaffarnagar, an avoidable riot, earned two distinctions: one, severity of Hindu or, Jat, backlash; two, the movement of riots to rural a...
- Considering OBC status to Jats a conspiracy of Congress: SPThe move was seen in the backdrop of Muzaffarnagar riots as Jats did not qualify criteria for reservation, the minister said.
- Haven’t we lost dear ones, ask Jats as PM, Sonia visit Muslim riot victimsJats did not seem impressed by Sonia and Rahul either even though the mother-son duo had, on the advice of a UP government officer, made br...
- Ajit Singh admits Muzaffarnagar riots a blow to traditional vote banks of RLDThe Rashtriya Lok Dal led by Ajit Singh is likely to face the brunt of the communal cleavage between the Jats and Muslims in the area.
- Akhilesh Yadav booed in Muzaffarnagar over mishandling of riotsAkhilesh Yadav got a taste of public resentment against his government and party when he was booed by a crowd during his tour of Muzaffarna...
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