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"Bihari Doesn't Mean Backward": JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar To NDTV
Ahead of the highly anticipated Bihar Assembly elections, media executive and JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar made an appeal for the state to rise above its caste politics and focus on economic transformation.
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In Nitish Kumar's Bihar List, A Muslim Balancing Act, And Caste Equation Play
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) has fielded Muslim candidates in four seats for the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, carefully balancing caste equations with community vote banks in the politically sensitive state.
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Backward Castes, Professionals, Bureaucrats On Prashant Kishor's List: Sources
Election strategist-turned politician Prashant Kishor, who declared that his Jan Suraaj Party would contest from every constituency in Bihar in the coming assembly election, is banking heavily on candidates from backward castes.
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"Fought All Members Of Lalu Yadav Family": BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Former Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy - four-time MP from Bihar -- has said he has become the voice of the ignored forward castes in Bihar, where politics, for the last few decades, has revolved around social justice and backward castes.
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1995 Bihar Polls: How 'Vikas Nahi Samman' Won Lalu Yadav Chief Ministership
Janata Dal won 167 of 324 seats in the 1995 Bihar polls, securing an absolute majority. The backward castes and Dalits finally felt empowered.
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Once Nitish Kumar's Trump Card, This Group Is Now Rahul Gandhi's Bihar Bet
In the politics of Bihar, caste is both compass and trap: it orients every voter, every party, every pledge, even as it binds them to inherited hierarchies
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State Government Has No Authority To Change Scheduled Caste Lists: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has quashed a 2015 notification of the Bihar government by which it had deleted 'Tanti-Tantwa' caste from the Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) and merged it with 'Pan/Sawasi' caste in the Scheduled Castes list.
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BJP In "Action Mode", Backward Classes Outreach After Bihar Caste Report
The BJP - under attack from the opposition on the caste census issue, with the national election months away - is prepping an Other Backward Classes outreach initiative, sources told NDTV Thursday.
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Bihar Assembly Passes Bill For 65% Caste Quota, Past Supreme Court Cap
The Bihar Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to increase reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and Extremely Backward Classes in state jobs and educational institutions to 65 per cent.
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Nitish Kumar Wants Bihar Caste Quotas Raised To 65%, Past Supreme Court Cap
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has proposed increasing quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, as well Other Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes, to 65 per cent.
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"34% Earn Rs 6,000 Or Less": Bihar Survey Reveals Wealth, Education Data
The second tranche of data from the Bihar government's caste-based survey - and the full report on the economic condition of 215 Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes - was published Tuesday.
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Economic Data Collected During Caste Survey To Be Tabled In Bihar Assembly: Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar has said that details collected as part of the caste survey, including the economic condition of households, will be tabled before the state assembly.
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Releasing Bihar Caste Survey "Victory Of Social Justice": Nitish Kumar's JD(U)
The JD(U) on Tuesday hailed the release of caste survey in Bihar as a "victory for social justice", asserting the report will open new avenues of progress and prosperity for the Extremely Backward Classes.
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Bihar Caste Census: Chirag Paswan Claims Population Of Some Castes Inflated
Chirag Paswan rejects Bihar caste census figures as politically motivated, alleging that they inflate the population of some castes and reduce the numbers of others.
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NDTV Explainer: With Eye On Polls, Breaking Down Bihar's Caste Survey
NDTV explains after the Bihar government released data from a caste-based survey that said nearly 63.1 per cent of the state's 13.1 crore population belong to backward classes and nearly 85 per cent belong to either OBCs, EBCs, SCs or STs.
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"Bihari Doesn't Mean Backward": JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar To NDTV
Ahead of the highly anticipated Bihar Assembly elections, media executive and JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar made an appeal for the state to rise above its caste politics and focus on economic transformation.
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In Nitish Kumar's Bihar List, A Muslim Balancing Act, And Caste Equation Play
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) has fielded Muslim candidates in four seats for the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, carefully balancing caste equations with community vote banks in the politically sensitive state.
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Backward Castes, Professionals, Bureaucrats On Prashant Kishor's List: Sources
Election strategist-turned politician Prashant Kishor, who declared that his Jan Suraaj Party would contest from every constituency in Bihar in the coming assembly election, is banking heavily on candidates from backward castes.
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"Fought All Members Of Lalu Yadav Family": BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Former Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy - four-time MP from Bihar -- has said he has become the voice of the ignored forward castes in Bihar, where politics, for the last few decades, has revolved around social justice and backward castes.
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1995 Bihar Polls: How 'Vikas Nahi Samman' Won Lalu Yadav Chief Ministership
Janata Dal won 167 of 324 seats in the 1995 Bihar polls, securing an absolute majority. The backward castes and Dalits finally felt empowered.
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Once Nitish Kumar's Trump Card, This Group Is Now Rahul Gandhi's Bihar Bet
In the politics of Bihar, caste is both compass and trap: it orients every voter, every party, every pledge, even as it binds them to inherited hierarchies
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State Government Has No Authority To Change Scheduled Caste Lists: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has quashed a 2015 notification of the Bihar government by which it had deleted 'Tanti-Tantwa' caste from the Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) and merged it with 'Pan/Sawasi' caste in the Scheduled Castes list.
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BJP In "Action Mode", Backward Classes Outreach After Bihar Caste Report
The BJP - under attack from the opposition on the caste census issue, with the national election months away - is prepping an Other Backward Classes outreach initiative, sources told NDTV Thursday.
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Bihar Assembly Passes Bill For 65% Caste Quota, Past Supreme Court Cap
The Bihar Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to increase reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and Extremely Backward Classes in state jobs and educational institutions to 65 per cent.
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Nitish Kumar Wants Bihar Caste Quotas Raised To 65%, Past Supreme Court Cap
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has proposed increasing quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, as well Other Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes, to 65 per cent.
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"34% Earn Rs 6,000 Or Less": Bihar Survey Reveals Wealth, Education Data
The second tranche of data from the Bihar government's caste-based survey - and the full report on the economic condition of 215 Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes - was published Tuesday.
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Economic Data Collected During Caste Survey To Be Tabled In Bihar Assembly: Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar has said that details collected as part of the caste survey, including the economic condition of households, will be tabled before the state assembly.
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Releasing Bihar Caste Survey "Victory Of Social Justice": Nitish Kumar's JD(U)
The JD(U) on Tuesday hailed the release of caste survey in Bihar as a "victory for social justice", asserting the report will open new avenues of progress and prosperity for the Extremely Backward Classes.
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Bihar Caste Census: Chirag Paswan Claims Population Of Some Castes Inflated
Chirag Paswan rejects Bihar caste census figures as politically motivated, alleging that they inflate the population of some castes and reduce the numbers of others.
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NDTV Explainer: With Eye On Polls, Breaking Down Bihar's Caste Survey
NDTV explains after the Bihar government released data from a caste-based survey that said nearly 63.1 per cent of the state's 13.1 crore population belong to backward classes and nearly 85 per cent belong to either OBCs, EBCs, SCs or STs.
