Counting more: Patna: Bihar Congress President Rajesh Ram beats drum with supporters as they celebrate the Centre’s decision to include caste enumeration in the upcoming census, in Patna, on May 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: The Union Cabinet has decided that the next Census will include questions on caste to … Read more
In Massajog in the Beed district of Maharashtra, a pendal (temporary structure) has been erected outside the village temple, in the shadow of a 100-year-old tamarind tree. Under the shamiana, on a table, is a garlanded photo of Santosh Deshmukh, the 45-year-old sarpanch of the village who was brutally murdered on December 9, 2024. Next … Read more
BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, Congress leaders and BC associations representatives at a meeting in the Secretariat | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As the Backward Classes organisations pointed out certain lapses in the Telangana Socio, Caste, Economic, Employment and Political Survey, the Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar tried to shatter the myth by engaging … Read more
File photo of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with JD(U) working president Sanjay Jha. | Photo Credit: ANI The Janata Dal (United) on Sunday (January 19, 2025) accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of hypocrisy on the issue of caste census, charging him with maintaining silence when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar raised the matter in … Read more
S.S. Sivasankar, Minister for Transport | Photo Credit: K.V. Srinivasan Tamil Nadu Transport Minister S.S. Sivasankar on Wednesday (December 25, 2024) questioned whether Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president Anbumani Ramadoss had the courage to ask its alliance partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which heads the Union government, to conduct a caste census. He was … Read more
The demand for a caste Census has become a heated political issue, fuelled by calls from opposition leaders, NGOs, and, more recently, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) also adding itself to the cohort. Proponents argue that such a Census would determine the population sizes of various castes and that these numbers can be used to … Read more
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, and NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule release Maha Vikas Aghadi’s manifesto for Maharashtra Assembly elections, in Mumbai, Sunday (November 10, 2024). | Photo Credit: PTI Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday launched the joint manifesto for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance for the upcoming … Read more
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy reviewed the proposed caste survey at his residence on Sunday night. It was attended by ministers N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Damodar Raja Narsimha, D. Sridhar Babu, TPCC president and MLC Mahesh Kumar Goud and senior officials. As the caste survey begins on November 6 in Telangana, Chief Minister A. Revanth … Read more
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday reiterated his demand and the importance of conducting a nationwide caste census, saying it was not just a census but served as a foundation for effective policymaking. Addressing a Samvidhan Samman Sammelan in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, Rahul Gandhi stated that 90 per cent of the … Read more
JSP president Pawan Kalyan addressing a gathering as TDP national president looks on, during a joint campaign of TDP-BJP-JSP alliance at Tanuku in West Godavari district on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement NIDADAVOLE (EAST GODAVARI) TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu has alleged that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is trying to drive … Read more