Congress’ 2024 election manifesto includes legal guarantee for MSP, caste census, filling government vacancies

Congress’ 2024 election manifesto includes legal guarantee for MSP, caste census, filling government vacancies

Congress manifesto committee, headed by former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, is scheduled to have a meeting on March 4 to discuss the draft manifesto, which is in its final stages.  | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Making minimum support price (MSP) a legal guarantee, the promise to conduct a nationwide caste census, and filling existing … Read more

Mujahid conference ends with a call for caste census

Mujahid conference ends with a call for caste census

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurating the valedictory session of the 10th Mujahid State conference at Karipur on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SAKEER HUSSAIN The four-day 10th Mujahid State conference organised by the Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM) Marakazu Dahwa concluded at Karipur near Kondotty on Sunday making a clarion call for a caste census to ensure … Read more

Karnataka: Hegde likely to seek 15 more days to submit caste census report

Karnataka: Hegde likely to seek 15 more days to submit caste census report

With just two days left for the extended tenure of the chairman of Karnataka Permanent Commission for Backward Classes, K. Jayaprakash Hegde, to end, it is now learnt that he is likely to seek a little more time to complete the socio economic survey (census) report before it is submitted to the government. Sources in … Read more

PMK, AMMK call for caste survey in Tamil Nadu 

PMK, AMMK call for caste survey in Tamil Nadu 

Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam (AMMK) demanded that the state government should come forward to carry out caste-based survey in Tamil Nadu. In a statement, PMK Founder S Ramadoss pointed out that Bihar conducted a caste-based census and the reservation has been enhanced to 75% from 60%. Based on the survey … Read more

A.P. caste survey: Socioeconomic conditions of all communities should also be gathered, say representatives

A.P. caste survey: Socioeconomic conditions of all communities should also be gathered, say representatives

Telugu Desam Party BC Sadhikara Committee convener Boina Govindarajulu. File | Photo Credit: Arrangement Representatives of communities such as Backward Classes (BC), Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) asked the Andhra Pradesh government to conduct a comprehensive caste survey by gathering information on socioeconomic conditions of these people since caste data alone would not … Read more

Congress a ‘clever party’, wants caste census ‘only for votes’: Akhilesh Yadav in M.P.

Congress a ‘clever party’, wants caste census ‘only for votes’: Akhilesh Yadav in M.P.

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav addresses a public meeting in support of party candidate RR Bansal ahead of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, in Tikamgarh on November 5, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav said on Sunday in Madhya Pradesh that the Congress is a “clever” party and it … Read more

Rajasthan CM announces caste survey as State heads into elections

Rajasthan CM announces caste survey as State heads into elections

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s concept of caste survey and participation in proportion to the population would be furthered in the State. File | Photo Credit: PTI With Assembly elections approaching, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced the State will conduct a caste survey on the lines of the one … Read more

Madras High Court refuses to issue direction to T.N. government to conduct caste census

Madras High Court refuses to issue direction to T.N. government to conduct caste census

A view of the Madras High Court. File The Madras High Court on Wednesday refused to issue a direction to the Tamil Nadu government to conduct a caste-wise census. The court disposed of a public interest litigation petition which sought this direction, with liberty to the litigant, to pursue a representation made by him in … Read more

Bihar’s caste survey a brave step forward, Maharashtra and other states should follow suit: NCP MLA

Bihar’s caste survey a brave step forward, Maharashtra and other states should follow suit: NCP MLA

The member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly representing the Mumbra-Kalwa constituency in Thane district made this demand in a video message posted on social media platform X on Monday night. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Jitendra Awhad has hailed the Bihar government’s caste survey and demanded … Read more

Bihar caste survey | OBCs, EBCs comprise more than 63% of State’s population

Bihar caste survey | OBCs, EBCs comprise more than 63% of State’s population

Enumerator staff collects informations from residents during the caste-based census survey, in Patna, Bihar. | Photo Credit: ANI The Bihar Government on October 2 released a report on the caste-based survey it had conducted amid a case pending in the Supreme Court on the validity of such a survey. According to the report released by … Read more