Haryana assembly polls: Elections to pivot around jobs, farmer protests, agniveer & Dalit votesHaryana is the first state to hold elections after the Lok Sabha polls, with Congress and BJP both having won five seats each. The state's ...
23 Sep, 2024, 05.08 PM IST
RLD plans to extend base in west UP, eyes Dalit votes in RajasthanThe party is keenly eyeing Dalit support in western UP and Rajasthan and will focus on social justice as a key cornerstone through agitatio...
04 Apr, 2022, 01.29 PM IST
With Mayawati’s appeal on the wane, BJP eyes gains in Haryana assembly elections“This time, we are targeting to win all the 17 seats,” BJP general secretary incharge of Haryana, Anil Jain, told ET.
18 Sep, 2019, 11.30 PM 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
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...
22 May, 2018, 11.46 PM 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
In cabinet reshuffle, Vasundhara Raje balances caste, regional equationsVasundhara Raje today inducted six new ministers, including a Dalit woman MLA, elevated two state ministers to Cabinet rank besides appoint...
10 Dec, 2016, 10.28 PM 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
BJP may name non-Jat as Haryana Chief MinisterSenior party sources indicated that such a choice will only be in keeping with the overwhelming support that the BJP mustered from non-jats.
17 Oct, 2014, 12.32 PM IST
Mirchpur witnesses multi-cornered contest between BJP, INLD, a retired police officer and an independentThe contest has intensified after BJP president Amit Shah pitched hard for Captain Abhimanyu as a front runner for the CM post.
06 Oct, 2014, 03.51 AM IST
Lok Sabha Elections 2014: Advantage Modi in Bijnor but SP, BSP not far behindAt Bijnor Sugar Mill, 30-year-old farmer Hoshiyar Singh, a Jatav dalit from Naya Gaon, says his entire village is voting for BJP.
09 Apr, 2014, 01.10 PM IST
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..
09 Apr, 2014, 12.00 PM IST
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...
10 Mar, 2014, 11.00 AM IST
- Is he Cong CM or a Khap chief?
Bhupinder Singh Hooda said society did not approve same-gotra marriages.
05 Jun, 2010, 03.14 AM IST
- Time for Cong to grab Jat bull by the horns
Congress has been struggling to control controversies created by the Jat community in Haryana.
13 May, 2010, 04.01 AM IST
- Jat-Dalit deal in UP is easier said than done
The RLD’s decision to join hands with the BSP in an attempt to topple the Manmohan Singh government and clinch a pre-poll pact is certain t...
21 Jul, 2008, 03.14 AM IST
- Dalit-Jat fight breaks out in Sonepat
Inter-caste rivalry broke out in Haryana’s Sonepat after a Dalit youth was killed on Monday.
28 Aug, 2007, 10.45 PM IST