Bjp Dalit Outreach

An hour outside Lucknow, in the village of Kanar, in Malihabad, farmers take us to their mango orchards.

The BJP, in order to connect with Dalits, hosted a grand khichdi feast at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday where 5,000 kg of "samrasta khichdi" was cooked and served as part of its "Bhim Mahasangam" programme, party leaders said.

The BJP intends to counter the impact of a possible alliance between the Congress and the Dalit powerhouse Mayawati's party with an intensive outreach to Madhya Pradesh's dalit community led by 65,000 party leaders, one in each polling booth. The BJP calls them Dalit 'caste in-charge' or 'Jaati Prabhari' and has tasked its scheduled caste unit to s...

Following controversy over the BJP's Dalit outreach programmes in Uttar Pradesh, the BSP has decided to hold 'chaupals' or village meetings across the state to expose what is calls the "anti-Dalit face" of the BJP.

BJP MP Udit Raj said on Friday that merely having food at homes of Dalits is not enough, as the need of the hour is to address their aspirations and grievances, which are not the same as it were in 80s or 90s.

The BJP's dinner-with-Dalits outreach has produced another gaffe with a minister in Uttar Pradesh - yes, one more - talking about visiting Dalit homes and braving mosquito bites to ensure they receive government benefits.

At a time the ruling BJP is working on its Dalit outreach, its leaders seem to have blundered into controversies and ended up reinforcing caste bias. An Uttar Pradesh minister, Rajendra Pratap Singh, has compared BJP leaders -- himself included -- to "Lord Ram" for going to Dalit homes and eating with them. His colleague Suresh Rana has given a who...

An Uttar Pradesh minister's outreach, featuring a meal with a Dalit family as part of a larger BJP campaign, appears to have backfired spectacularly with photos of a catered feast emerging online.

As the BJP tries to placate Dalit voters through outreach programmes like 'Gram Swaraj Abhiyan' in run-up to the Lok Sabha polls next year, Mayawati's party BSP or Bahujan Samaj Party has asked its office-bearers and workers to fan out and initiate preemptive steps to ensure the ruling party does not make a dent in a vote bank that has traditionall...

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday ripped into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, criticising it on multiple issues as he launched his year-long "Save the Constitution campaign". While the programme was seen as an outreach to the Dalit community, the Congress chief spoke of farmers, women, corruption and demanded a 15-minute debate with ...

As part of the BJP's Dalit outreach programme, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had lunch with some members of the community at a five-star hotel in Patna on Saturday.

BJP Karnataka president BS Yeddyurappa on Monday hosted the families of 33 Dalits at his posh Dollars colony residence in Bengaluru. These are the same families whose homes he recently visited as part of his public outreach programme across the state.

As part of the party's Dalit outreach, BJP's top brass has asked Union ministers and senior functionaries to have meals at Dalit households while visiting different states as part of the Modi government's third anniversary celebrations.

The taste of victory is sweet and the BJP wants more. At a weekly meeting of lawmakers today, party president Amit Shah offered a laddoo from the famous Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor to Prime Minister Modi - brought by a lawmaker as blessings of Lord Balaji - and immediately informed his colleagues that they begin preps for he BJP's ...

The BJP's strategy to wrest Uttarakhand back from the Congress includes a big outreach to the Dalit community, a significant 18.8 per cent of the voters in the state. The party is going beyond its traditional Thakur-Brahmin support base to woo the Dalit vote, which can influence the result in more than 20 constituencies. That can make all the diffe...

An hour outside Lucknow, in the village of Kanar, in Malihabad, farmers take us to their mango orchards.

The BJP, in order to connect with Dalits, hosted a grand khichdi feast at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday where 5,000 kg of "samrasta khichdi" was cooked and served as part of its "Bhim Mahasangam" programme, party leaders said.

The BJP intends to counter the impact of a possible alliance between the Congress and the Dalit powerhouse Mayawati's party with an intensive outreach to Madhya Pradesh's dalit community led by 65,000 party leaders, one in each polling booth. The BJP calls them Dalit 'caste in-charge' or 'Jaati Prabhari' and has tasked its scheduled caste unit to s...

Following controversy over the BJP's Dalit outreach programmes in Uttar Pradesh, the BSP has decided to hold 'chaupals' or village meetings across the state to expose what is calls the "anti-Dalit face" of the BJP.

BJP MP Udit Raj said on Friday that merely having food at homes of Dalits is not enough, as the need of the hour is to address their aspirations and grievances, which are not the same as it were in 80s or 90s.

The BJP's dinner-with-Dalits outreach has produced another gaffe with a minister in Uttar Pradesh - yes, one more - talking about visiting Dalit homes and braving mosquito bites to ensure they receive government benefits.

At a time the ruling BJP is working on its Dalit outreach, its leaders seem to have blundered into controversies and ended up reinforcing caste bias. An Uttar Pradesh minister, Rajendra Pratap Singh, has compared BJP leaders -- himself included -- to "Lord Ram" for going to Dalit homes and eating with them. His colleague Suresh Rana has given a who...

An Uttar Pradesh minister's outreach, featuring a meal with a Dalit family as part of a larger BJP campaign, appears to have backfired spectacularly with photos of a catered feast emerging online.

As the BJP tries to placate Dalit voters through outreach programmes like 'Gram Swaraj Abhiyan' in run-up to the Lok Sabha polls next year, Mayawati's party BSP or Bahujan Samaj Party has asked its office-bearers and workers to fan out and initiate preemptive steps to ensure the ruling party does not make a dent in a vote bank that has traditionall...

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday ripped into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, criticising it on multiple issues as he launched his year-long "Save the Constitution campaign". While the programme was seen as an outreach to the Dalit community, the Congress chief spoke of farmers, women, corruption and demanded a 15-minute debate with ...

As part of the BJP's Dalit outreach programme, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had lunch with some members of the community at a five-star hotel in Patna on Saturday.

BJP Karnataka president BS Yeddyurappa on Monday hosted the families of 33 Dalits at his posh Dollars colony residence in Bengaluru. These are the same families whose homes he recently visited as part of his public outreach programme across the state.

As part of the party's Dalit outreach, BJP's top brass has asked Union ministers and senior functionaries to have meals at Dalit households while visiting different states as part of the Modi government's third anniversary celebrations.

The taste of victory is sweet and the BJP wants more. At a weekly meeting of lawmakers today, party president Amit Shah offered a laddoo from the famous Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor to Prime Minister Modi - brought by a lawmaker as blessings of Lord Balaji - and immediately informed his colleagues that they begin preps for he BJP's ...

The BJP's strategy to wrest Uttarakhand back from the Congress includes a big outreach to the Dalit community, a significant 18.8 per cent of the voters in the state. The party is going beyond its traditional Thakur-Brahmin support base to woo the Dalit vote, which can influence the result in more than 20 constituencies. That can make all the diffe...