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Bihar’s Musahars struggle for dignity and survivalThe Musahar community, Bihar's most marginalized Dalit group, faces extreme poverty, caste stigma, and lack of basic amenities like housing...- Bihar polls: A year after Dalit-on-Dalit clash, old hierarchies shiftIn Bihar's Nawada district, the interplay of caste affiliations and land disputes is casting a long shadow over the upcoming elections. Rec...
- 'Young should now get chance': Tejashwi Yadav appeals to people to make him Bihar CMRJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, appealing to the 'Mushar-Bhuyan' community, promised to eradicate poverty and provide housing if elected Bihar's...
- Bihar parties step up Dalit outreach with key appointments & events ahead of pollsAs Bihar Assembly polls approach, political parties are intensifying their Dalit outreach. The JDU plans to celebrate Ambedkar's birth anni...
- Bihar: Jitan Ram Manjhi threatens to give up cabinet berth, causes flutterUnion Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, former Chief Minister of Bihar, hinted at resigning from the cabinet, expressing dissatisfaction with the ...
- JDU aims to attract Dalit voters ahead of Bihar Assembly elections with 'Bhim Sansad' eventsAhead of the Bihar assembly elections, the Nitish Kumar-led JDU is intensifying efforts to attract Dalit voters. The party plans to organiz...
- Parties take positions after Supreme Court sub-classification verdictThe Supreme Court's recent decision to permit sub-classification among Scheduled Castes has incited varied responses from NDA and INDIA blo...
- Allies restive over Nitish Kumar's repeated 'loose remarks'Kumar's comments in the Bihar assembly last week while talking about women education - for which he had to apologise the next day under Opp...
- Polling underway for by-polls to two assembly seats in BiharAltogether 17 candidates are in the fray for the two seats, eight in Tarapur and nine in Kusheshwar Asthan. The JD(U)'s bid to retain these...
- Before hitting campaign trail in Bihar by-polls, Lalu hints at thaw with CongressRJD president Lalu Prasad said he had a telephonic talk with Sonia Gandhi whom he asked to hold a meeting of "like-minded" parties which co...
- It is the beginning of Hindutva politics in West Bengal, not the end: Author Badri NarayanRSS is constantly changing and those who want to contest its influence don’t understand these changes .Attacking its stereo-types will not ...
- Manjhi’s HAM, Sahani’s VIP add crucial seats to NDA tally that may prove decisiveHAM’s Jitan Ram Manjhi, a Dalit leader who became chief minister with Nitish Kumar’s blessings but soon fell out and returned to the NDA fo...
- Nitish Kumar's schemes to empower Mahadalits 'well-intentioned', but need proper implementation: StudyNitish Kumar introduced the Mahadalit umbrella in 2007 after the Bihar State Mahadalit Commission recommended inclusion of 18 scheduled cas...
- Bihar polls: BJP plays 'Bandit Queen' Phoolan Devi card to lure MallahsThe legacy of Phoolan Devi has been invoked by Mukesh Sahni to seek support of the Mallah (boatmen) community for the BJP-led alliance in t...
- Dalits cry for justice in Bihar politicsRJD candidate from Jhanjharpur Gulab Yadav's election affidavit says he faces charges of rape (Sec 376 IPC) and under the SC-ST (prevention...
- Bihar polls: In Darbhanga, the rat-eating community looks to Jitan Ram Manjhi for salvationManjhi might turn out to be the flicker of hope the Musahars are looking for as Darbhanga goes to polls on October 23.
- Bihar polls: Rallying behind Jitan Ram Manjhi, Musahars vow to unseat Nitish KumarThis assembly election is witnessing the emergence of Musahars as a strong constituency determined to vote en bloc.
- Bihar polls: Small trader communities like Sao Jis and Telis root for PM Narendra Modi-led BJPThe PM belongs to the Teli community which was accommodated in the 'extremely backward' category just before polls were announced.
- Bihar elections still remain about slicing and dicing caste, EBCs are the wild cardLike it or not, caste continues to underpin electoral behaviour. This is so particularly in Bihar and UP, with the exception of ‘wave’ elec...
- Bihar elections 2015: BJP needs to reach out to MahadalitsVoters are not quite sure about the political affiliation of Manjhi. This suggests that BJP may have to walk the extra mile to harness the ...
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