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JNU Awaits Central Panel Election Results After 67% Voter Turnout
Students at the campus talk about women and Dalit representation and are demanding more aid and healthcare facilities for both.
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The Audacity Of Tejashwi Yadav's Ambition: Shifting From 'MY' To 'PDA'
In the intricate smorgasbord of Bihar's political landscape, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has long stood as a formidable player, its roots entrenched in the soil of the Muslim-Yadav coalition.
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Meet Rajesh Kumar: Dalit Leader, Bihar Congress Chief Who Fought From Kutumba
Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Kumar contested the upcoming assembly elections from the Kutumba constituency. The seat, reserved for the Scheduled Castes, is in the Aurangabad district.
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Yogi Adityanath Eats At Dalit House As Rebel Leaders Join Akhilesh Yadav
On Friday, as Akhilesh Yadav was welcoming seven rebel BJP leaders - two ex-ministers - with combined considerable influence over OBC voters to his party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was at lunching at a Dalit home in Gorakhpur.
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"Dalits Kept Away Over Quota Fears": Akali Dal's Analysis Of Punjab Loss
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday seemed to pass the buck to the BJP for the alliance's poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, with the party concluding at a core committee meeting in Chandigarh that Punjab's Dalit voters gravitated towards other parties for fear that the Narendra Modi government may scrap the reservation system if it return...
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Amit Shah Directs BJP Workers In UP To Focus On Dalit Voters
BJP chief Amit Shah has directed the party workers in Uttar Pradesh to focus on the Dalit votes and also on the beneficiaries of various welfare schemes of the Centre and state government.
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Akhilesh Yadav From Azamgarh Seat A Mix Of "Lathi, Hathi": Party Leader
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's decision to contest from his father Mulayam Singh's bastion Azamgarh is being touted as a move to consolidate the Yadav, Dalit and Muslim voters in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh.
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Delhi BJP Reaches Out To Dalit Voters Through Community Meals
Seeking a stronger connect withDalitvotersin the run uptothe Lok Sabha elections, theBJPis holding ''Samrasta Bhoj'' (social harmony feast) in the 12 reserved assembly constituencies spread across six parliamentary seats inDelhi.
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BJP Faces Aggressive RJD Bid For Wooing Dalits In Bihar: Jitan Ram Manjhi
If the BJP is going all out to woo Dalit voters in Uttar Pradesh to trump a likely alliance of rival parties, it is facing an aggressive RJD bid in Bihar to woo key scheduled castes leaders to corner the saffron party-led NDA in the Lok Sabha elections next year.
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Mayawati's Party BSP Plans Counter To BJP's Dalit, Backward Outreach Program
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...
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Laddoo In Hand, Amit Shah Sets The BJP A New Target
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 ...
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UP Elections 2017: What's In A Name? In Harijanpur, Opinion Is Divided
If caste equations play a dominant role in Uttar Pradesh politics, on the ground, its reflection can be seen in villages like Harijanpur. Blatantly named after castes or groupings of their residents, such villages can be found in every corner of the state. Harijanpur -- 20 km on an extremely bad road from Chitrakoot's Manikpur block and home to 530...
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An Order On Rohith Vemula's Caste Boosts Mayawati's Attack On BJP
Mr Vemula'ssuicide is just one of the incidents targeting Dalits which have occurred since the BJP came into power in 2014, says Mayawati, who is trying to combine the Dalit and Musim vote, which add up to around 40% percent of UP, in her effort to dislodge Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and beat the BJP's campaign that's led by Prime Minister Naren...
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Uttarakhand Election 2017: 68% Overall Voter Turnout In 69 Assembly Constituencies As Voting Ends
Voting has ended in Uttarakhand's 69 constituencies spread across 13 districts (7 in Garhwal region and the remaining 6 in Kumaon region of the state). Residents of Uttarakhand voted today to decide who will form the next government in the state. The overall voter turnout was 68%, which is 1.2% higher than the 2012 Assembly election (66.8%). The BJ...
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Uttarakhand Elections 2017: Ahead Of The Polls, BJP's Massive Dalit Outreach
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...
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JNU Awaits Central Panel Election Results After 67% Voter Turnout
Students at the campus talk about women and Dalit representation and are demanding more aid and healthcare facilities for both.
-
The Audacity Of Tejashwi Yadav's Ambition: Shifting From 'MY' To 'PDA'
In the intricate smorgasbord of Bihar's political landscape, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has long stood as a formidable player, its roots entrenched in the soil of the Muslim-Yadav coalition.
-
Meet Rajesh Kumar: Dalit Leader, Bihar Congress Chief Who Fought From Kutumba
Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Kumar contested the upcoming assembly elections from the Kutumba constituency. The seat, reserved for the Scheduled Castes, is in the Aurangabad district.
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Yogi Adityanath Eats At Dalit House As Rebel Leaders Join Akhilesh Yadav
On Friday, as Akhilesh Yadav was welcoming seven rebel BJP leaders - two ex-ministers - with combined considerable influence over OBC voters to his party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was at lunching at a Dalit home in Gorakhpur.
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"Dalits Kept Away Over Quota Fears": Akali Dal's Analysis Of Punjab Loss
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday seemed to pass the buck to the BJP for the alliance's poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, with the party concluding at a core committee meeting in Chandigarh that Punjab's Dalit voters gravitated towards other parties for fear that the Narendra Modi government may scrap the reservation system if it return...
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Amit Shah Directs BJP Workers In UP To Focus On Dalit Voters
BJP chief Amit Shah has directed the party workers in Uttar Pradesh to focus on the Dalit votes and also on the beneficiaries of various welfare schemes of the Centre and state government.
-
Akhilesh Yadav From Azamgarh Seat A Mix Of "Lathi, Hathi": Party Leader
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's decision to contest from his father Mulayam Singh's bastion Azamgarh is being touted as a move to consolidate the Yadav, Dalit and Muslim voters in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh.
-
Delhi BJP Reaches Out To Dalit Voters Through Community Meals
Seeking a stronger connect withDalitvotersin the run uptothe Lok Sabha elections, theBJPis holding ''Samrasta Bhoj'' (social harmony feast) in the 12 reserved assembly constituencies spread across six parliamentary seats inDelhi.
-
BJP Faces Aggressive RJD Bid For Wooing Dalits In Bihar: Jitan Ram Manjhi
If the BJP is going all out to woo Dalit voters in Uttar Pradesh to trump a likely alliance of rival parties, it is facing an aggressive RJD bid in Bihar to woo key scheduled castes leaders to corner the saffron party-led NDA in the Lok Sabha elections next year.
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Mayawati's Party BSP Plans Counter To BJP's Dalit, Backward Outreach Program
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...
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Laddoo In Hand, Amit Shah Sets The BJP A New Target
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 ...
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UP Elections 2017: What's In A Name? In Harijanpur, Opinion Is Divided
If caste equations play a dominant role in Uttar Pradesh politics, on the ground, its reflection can be seen in villages like Harijanpur. Blatantly named after castes or groupings of their residents, such villages can be found in every corner of the state. Harijanpur -- 20 km on an extremely bad road from Chitrakoot's Manikpur block and home to 530...
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An Order On Rohith Vemula's Caste Boosts Mayawati's Attack On BJP
Mr Vemula'ssuicide is just one of the incidents targeting Dalits which have occurred since the BJP came into power in 2014, says Mayawati, who is trying to combine the Dalit and Musim vote, which add up to around 40% percent of UP, in her effort to dislodge Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and beat the BJP's campaign that's led by Prime Minister Naren...
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Uttarakhand Election 2017: 68% Overall Voter Turnout In 69 Assembly Constituencies As Voting Ends
Voting has ended in Uttarakhand's 69 constituencies spread across 13 districts (7 in Garhwal region and the remaining 6 in Kumaon region of the state). Residents of Uttarakhand voted today to decide who will form the next government in the state. The overall voter turnout was 68%, which is 1.2% higher than the 2012 Assembly election (66.8%). The BJ...
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Uttarakhand Elections 2017: Ahead Of The Polls, BJP's Massive Dalit Outreach
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...
