Protesters have been camping in tents after blocking a 1-km stretch of NH-21 near Arauda village since April 21. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Jaipur-Agra national highway remained blocked in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday, as protesters demanding 12% separate reservation for a group of Other Backward Class (OBC) … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a public meeting at Chevella in Rangareddy district on Sunday. | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna Union Home Minister Amit Shah has termed the reservation given to Muslims in Telangana in education and employment, and in the implementation of welfare schemes such as double-bedroom houses as “unconstitutional” and warned that … Read more
Expressing satisfaction over the State Cabinet’s new reservation matrix announced on Friday, Basava Jaya Mrutyunjaya Swami, honorary president of the Panchamasali reservation agitation committee and seer of the Lingayat Panchamasali Peetha of Kudalasangama, on Saturday announced that the 71-day stir has been withdrawn. Although the seer said it was an unanimous decision to withdraw the … Read more
Opposition leaders, including KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar, Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah and former Deputy CM G. Parameshwara, take part in a protest on the SC/ST reservation, in Bengaluru on March 24, 2023. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Congress organised a ‘Raj Bhavan Chalo’ rally accusing the Karnataka government of delay in recommending to the Centre … Read more
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Chief Shibu Soren along with his son and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and UPA MLAs ahead of Cabinet Meeting, at Jharkhand Assembly, in Ranchi on March 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI The Jharkhand government gave its nod to a number of proposals, including the construction of 1 lakh wells … Read more
Any quota should be done without affecting anyone, the AIADMK said in a press release; it said the EWS quota was based on the recommendation of a commission established in 2006, when the DMK shared power with the Congress at the Centre Any quota should be done without affecting anyone, the AIADMK said in a … Read more
It would open up new doors of opportunities for the economically weaker sections, says Pradhan It would open up new doors of opportunities for the economically weaker sections, says Pradhan Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and Ministers on Monday lauded the Supreme Court verdict upholding the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment providing 10% reservation to … Read more
The DMK government in Tamil Nadu was one of the parties in the case and had decided not to provide the EWS quota for government jobs. The DMK government in Tamil Nadu was one of the parties in the case and had decided not to provide the EWS quota for government jobs. Terming the Supreme … Read more
The Supreme Court, on November 7, upheld the validity of reservation to economically weaker section (EWS) of society among general category by a majority judgment of 3:2. While justices Dinesh Maheshwari, Bela Trivedi and B. Pardiwala held that the EWS quota does not violate basic structure of the Constitution, CJI U.U. Lalit and Justice Ravindra … Read more
Petitions have challenged validity of 103rd Constitutional Amendment which provides 10% reservation to economically weaker sections of society Petitions have challenged validity of 103rd Constitutional Amendment which provides 10% reservation to economically weaker sections of society A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit is scheduled to pronounce … Read more