Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati asserted that only political power can bring “good days” for the Bahujans while addressing a state-level special meeting of the party’s OBC officials in Lucknow on Tuesday.
The West Bengal government on Tuesday sought an urgent hearing by the Supreme Court of India of its appeal against the Calcutta High Court verdict striking down the OBC status of several castes, mostly Muslim groups, in the state for granting them reservation in public sector jobs and admissions in state-run educational institutions, PTI news agency reported.
The Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey data show that the general/upper caste Brahmin, Rajput, and Vaishya voters in Uttar Pradesh largely favoured the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Muslim voters in India's most populated state preferred the INDIA alliance.
As many as 13,626 Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Class (OBC) students have dropped out of central universities, Indian Institutes of...
Veteran Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said that her party supports the Women’s Reservation Bill but demanded a reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes within the 33% quota.
Transgender persons in Jharkhand have been included in the Other Backward Classes category to ensure that they can avail reservation in government jobs, the state Cabinet said on Wednesday.