Social activist Sunny M. Kapikkad opening a protest outside the University of Calicut at Tenhipalam in Malappuram on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A group of Dalit organisations under the aegis of the Forum for Social Justice staged a token protest on Monday outside the University of Calicut campus at Tenhipalam in Malappuram against … Read more
What’s the connection between Women’s Reservation Bill and Karnataka? | Video Credit: Ravichandran N With this, the 128th Constitutional Amendment Bill, or the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, will reserve one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and the legislative assemblies for women. Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded during an interaction with women on … Read more
“This (Women’s Reservation Bill) is not yours (Congress)… It is BJP’s Bill… you (Congress) are trying to play politics with this Bill alsom” BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said in the Lok Sabha on September 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI As the discussion on the Women’s Reservation Bill began in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, … Read more
Despite strides in local bodies, representation of women in the Karnataka Assembly has remained poor. The current Assembly with a strength of 224 has just 10 women MLAs and the 34-member cabinet has no more than one woman Minister. | Photo Credit: File Photo While the Women’s Reservation Bill introduced in the Parliament on Tuesday … Read more
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
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) MLA ‘Aloor’ Mohamed J. Shanavas on Friday said in the Assembly that many among the younger generation seemed to be against reservation and language rights. Participating in the discussion on demands for School Education and Higher Education Departments on Friday, he said he observed this from the questions that were asked … Read more
Mohammad Asgar Chulbul, national secretary of All India Milli Council (AIMC), condemned the State government’s move to cancel reservation for Muslims under 2B of Other Backward Classes (OBC) category. The State Cabinet has moved Muslims to the Economically Weaker Sections quota. In a media note released on Saturday, the Muslim leader termed the move as … Read more
Agitators during a hunger strike for Women’s Reservation Bill, led by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K. Kavitha, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Friday, March 10, 2023. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Congress on March 10 asked the BJP to make its stand clear on the Women’s Reservation Bill and demanded … Read more
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with senior party leader Sonia Gandhi during the 85th Plenary Session of the Indian National Congress, in Raipur on February 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Congress economic resolution identifies job creation as the cornerstone of policy making The Congress, terming employment generation as the core and foundation of its draft … Read more
Minister for Social Welfare Kota Srinivas Poojary said the BJP government in the State was in favour of implementing the Sadashiva Commission report on internal reservation. According to a statement here, Mr. Poojary made clear the government’s stand on internal reservation while speaking at a programme in Bittangala village of Virajpet in Kodagu district on … Read more