India's post-independence history showcases persistent dissent and public mobilisation. Students, farmers, and citizens have repeatedly cha...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has claimed that the alliance between BJP and Apna Dal (S) has eradicated the divisive powers of Samajwadi Pa...

The state's Bureau of Public Enterprises, on a request from the Commission for Backward Classes, has asked all departments to furnish data ...

The entry of these leaders has become a shot in the arm to the SP's non-Yadav OBC strength in its larger effort to redefine itself as a par...

Since 2014, the BJP has been successfully getting the votes of a large section of OBC voters and it is working hard to maintain the lead. T...

The BJP kick-started a series of OBC sammelans or meetings of other backward classes in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday to strengthen its appeal a...

BJP has successfully been able to add non-Yadav OBC castes such as Kurmi, Kushwaha, Lodh, Jat and some other smaller ones to its votebank s...

It is going to tough for the BJP to woo Rajbhar voters following the failure of its talks with its ally –– UP minister Om Prakash Rajbhar-h...

The Adityanath-led BJP govt is fast-tracking the process of splitting of the OBC quota and inclusion of 17 OBCs in the Scheduled Castes lis...

The twin moves are being seen as a balancing act as dominant castes among the OBC have long viewed with suspicion any move at sub-categoris...

A look at the political background of the ministers in Adityanath government shows that almost half the OBC members aren’t groomed either b...

BJP’s social union of upper castes & non-Yadav OBCs in UP 2017 is similar to the one stitched by it in Bihar under Nitish’s leadership befo...

Among OBCs, party’s favourite seems to be Koeri community, Kurmi, Lodh-Rajput, Nishad & Jats. Apart from these, BJP wooing Rajbhars, Baghel...

Back then, Singh was acutely aware that BJP could never hope to win in UP without expanding its core vote of upper castes and the trading c...

The advance planning and actions suggest early readiness on part of the the three major parties that are believed to have a shot at power i...

The party and the Parivar to rally around an OBC leader (Modi is a Teli) was a change of mammoth proportions in the ranks of the Sangh.

Though only one new face was inducted from Uttar Pradesh in the ministerial reshuffle undertaken by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the chan...