Rahul Gandhi meets Sachin Pilot, other OBC leaders of Congress; discusses empowerment of communityRahul Gandhi met with prominent OBC leaders, including Sachin Pilot and Anil Jaihind, to discuss community empowerment. Key issues like rem...
24 Nov, 2025, 09.40 PM IST
Bihar elections: BJP's campaign mode on, PM Modi & Amit Shah to visit poll-bound stateBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gears up for Bihar assembly elections. Top leaders including PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah will visit Bihar i...
12 Sep, 2025, 12.15 AM IST
Chhagan Bhujbal returns to cabinet as Mahayuti courts OBC votesChhagan Bhujbal rejoined the Maharashtra cabinet led by Devendra Fadnavis. He replaced Dhananjay Munde after a controversy. This move aims ...
21 May, 2025, 12.04 AM IST
Mumbai: After tough talk by govt, quota leader Manoj Jarange Patil calls off fastMaratha leader Manoj Jarange Patil ended hunger strike for OBC quota reservation. Maharashtra government agreed to most demands. BJP plans ...
26 Feb, 2024, 11.48 PM IST
BJP's focus on castes with over 20k votesAt least 250 workers or local leaders belonging to these communities will be identified along with 5 social workers who will together condu...
07 Jan, 2024, 11.35 AM IST
BJP steps up outreach to OBCs, Dalits with eye on Lok Sabha pollsWith the main opposition party Congress joining several regional parties to push for caste census as part of wider efforts to increase the ...
16 Jul, 2023, 04.04 PM IST
Assembly polls: BJP to send LED raths to all 403 seats in UP, outreach begins todayThe party has also set up a war room at the West UP regional office in Meerut, as west UP will go for polls in the first two phases. Around...
11 Jan, 2022, 07.44 AM IST
BJP to step up OBC - Dalit outreach, to host district-level meetsAccording to party insiders, there are 28 districts in the State where non-Jat and non-Yadav communities exceed 30 per cent of the electora...
16 Nov, 2021, 12.06 AM IST
BJP to intensify caste outreach, plans gatherings for specific groupsIt has appointed its UP state vice president Dayashankar Singh as the in-charge of OBC Morcha meetings and another vice president, Devendra...
04 Oct, 2021, 12.09 PM IST
BJP's UP game plan: 200 OBC rallies, SC sammelans; 21-member teams on Muslim dominated boothsKeeping in mind the caste dynamics of the politically crucial state as it is the largest in terms of Lok Sabha seats, the BJP's central lea...
03 Oct, 2021, 06.44 PM IST
BJP activates morchas in UP to woo voters of different communitiesIn the run-up to the assembly election, the BJP in Uttar Pradesh has activated different morchas and important events of these organisation...
20 Sep, 2021, 08.26 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
Gujarat Congress makes it ‘caste grievances’ against BJP’s ‘Hindutva plank’The BJP’s recent rift with Patels, its core supporters, has given Congress an unexpected opportunity to forge a new social rainbow with Dal...
23 Oct, 2017, 01.54 AM IST
Congress to woo Brahmins in UP election gambitCongress' outreach indicates that Brahmin grievance can go mainstream, akin to the surprising demand for OBC status from socially dominant ...
05 Sep, 2016, 10.57 AM IST
In the end, the vote banks served Nitish Kumar's interestObservers say , irrespective of the winner, the `backwards among the backwards' would be among the key target groups in future political ba...
09 Nov, 2015, 12.19 PM IST
JD(U) strives to reinvent itself post mauling in 2014 Lok Sabha pollsThe JD(U) government has begun pulling all stops as it fiercely seeks to win over constituencies which may not have voted for it.
19 Jul, 2014, 10.24 AM IST
- Centre bids to push Muslim quota ahead of polls in Uttar Pradesh
The Union cabinet is racing to clear a Muslim quota in central jobs soon in order to beat the enforcement of the model code of conduct that...
06 Dec, 2011, 07.15 AM IST