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LUCKNOW: In a bid to blunt the PDA (backwards, Dalits, minorities) push of the Samajwadi Party in the run up to the next big battle, BJP on Sunday inducted six new ministers with three of them backwards and two Dalits.Two junior ministers who were promoted are also backwards while the sole upper caste face in…
Singer and composer Palash Muchhal, who has been courting controversy over the past couple of days, on charges of cheating and caste-based abuse, shared photos on social media of his visit to Khatu Shyam Ji and Salasar Balaji temple.Posting photos of himself offering prayers to the deity, Muchhal captioned the post as, “Jahan sir jhuka,…
Vinod Suryavanshi, who made a brief appearance in Panchayat, has opened up about facing caste discrimination in his native village in Karnataka, revealing that his family is still not allowed to enter temples or people’s homes.In a conversation with Siddharth Kannan, Vinod said, “In my village in Karnataka, casteism is still prevalent, even today. There…
Actor-director R. Parthiban has received strong support from the court in his effort to be officially recognised as a person without caste or religion. The court directed the concerned authority to issue the certificate before April 29. Parthiban’s unusual decision displays his long-standing belief in a society free from caste and religion and has awakened…
THANE: The father of AIMIM corporator Sahar Sheikh — against whom the Thane tehsildar has recommended filing of a criminal case over an alleged fake caste certificate — refuted all allegations on Friday, dismissing the controversy as a politically motivated stunt.Yunus Sheikh, who appeared at Mumbra Police Station after reportedly being unreachable for two days,…
HYDERABAD: Nearly 12 lakh people, enough to rank as the state’s 10th largest community, identified themselves as ‘No Caste’ in the Telangana Socio-Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey released on Wednesday night.It shows that this group of 11,96,482 people or 3.4% of the population project themselves as caste neutral, but nearly half of…
New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah seized on Samajwadi Party MP Dharmendra Yadav’s demand for quota for OBC and Muslim women to hammer home his party’s avowed opposition to reservation based on religion.He also reiterated govt’s stand that the caste of citizens will be mentioned during the ongoing census to reject SP chief Akhilesh…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday accused the Modi government of attempting to put the caste-based census “in cold storage”, alleging inconsistencies in its stand over the years.In a post on X, Ramesh outlined what he described as a shifting position by the Centre. He said that on July 20, 2021, the government…
Actor-director R. Parthiban has applied for a no-caste, no-religion certificate. This follows controversy after his speech at the ‘Ustaad Bhagat Singh’ event. Parthiban stated the backlash deeply affected him. He explained a slip of tongue caused the issue. He has taken legal steps to remove caste and religion from his identity. Actor-director R. Parthiban has…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said no person professing a religion other than Hinduism, Sikhism or Buddhism shall be a member of Scheduled Caste. It held that a person from the Scheduled Caste community lost the status after converting to a religion other than Buddhism and Sikhism and could not invoke Scheduled Castes and…
