NDA had a much larger social coalition comprising the extremely backward classes, non-Yadav other backward classes, Dalits, upper castes, etc., who brought about landslide victory in Bihar.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Out of 1.25 crore Jeevika Mission members, one crore have received the first instalment of Rs 10,000. Here how the beneficiaries in Nalanda district are using the money.
Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID, and MGNREGA job card—the IDs poor voters actually hold are excluded from ECI's list of documents to prove identity and residence status in Bihar.
Appointments to SC commission, women's panel & apex court raise eyebrows, but JD(U) says appointees have been active in politics & Lalu family 'dynasty politics' is different.
It includes compiling data on Bihari migrants, facilitating their travel home during polls, holding events such as Bihar Divas & building association with Chhath Puja organisers.
The Centre has announced that caste enumeration will be part of the upcoming census, a move seen as an attack on the opposition's key electoral plank of social justice.
Kanhaiya Kumar contested the 2024 Lok Sabha poll from Delhi, but is now planning to be active in Bihar. He is likely to contest the polls but the seat is yet to be finalised.
Party has picked 40 district chiefs, with 18 belonging to ‘upper castes’, its core support base. To draw Kurmi & Kushwaha voters, 10 presidents have been picked from Luv-Kush castes.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
Initial talks held on the possibility of India entering the programme that was started in 2017 between France, Germany and Spain to ensure European sovereignty in defence and security.
I love how they oppose something tooth and nail, convince everyone that it will shatter the nation, surreptitiously adopt it when absolutely none was talking about it anymore and then pretend it was their grand idea all along. The best part is no one is calling about this Himalayan hypocrisy. The ministers who are claiming this is “surgical strike” are the same one who rabidly opposed it as calamitous. Nobody knows whether the government has any convictions at all or is just being run plainly on political expediency. That is neither unique or unprecedented. But atleast some scruples and circumspection would be welcome.
I love how they oppose something tooth and nail, convince everyone that it will shatter the nation, surreptitiously adopt it when absolutely none was talking about it anymore and then pretend it was their grand idea all along. The best part is no one is calling about this Himalayan hypocrisy. The ministers who are claiming this is “surgical strike” are the same one who rabidly opposed it as calamitous. Nobody knows whether the government has any convictions at all or is just being run plainly on political expediency. That is neither unique or unprecedented. But atleast some scruples and circumspection would be welcome.
Classic BJP ?
GC people don’t vote to Modi ever, he is like all other an even worse.