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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicCaste census

Topic: Caste census

Andhra to go for caste ‘census’, results to be out before assembly polls next year

Political analyst says Jagan’s census plan will disrupt rival TDP’s backward caste votebank, TDP calls it ‘ploy to identify party sympathisers & tamper with voter lists’.

If Rahul Gandhi can tie aspirations to caste census, he will have a winning formula

The greatest challenge for Congress is to develop fresh ideas to address evolving Hindu-first identity politics and support India's competitive global economy.

West Bengal isn’t casteless as Bengali Bhadralok thinks. Only caste census will bust the myth

TMC is reluctant to conduct caste census in West Bengal because Mamata Banerjee knows it can cause a tectonic shift in how people view caste and politics in the state.

‘Can’t oppose it, can’t endorse’ is BJP’s caste survey predicament, writes Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Bihar caste survey has done Pasmanda Muslims a big favour. Now India must do the same

It is disheartening to see how the Pasmanda society often gets overlooked and lacks proper representation because of lack of acknowledgement of caste-based divide within the Muslim community.

Bihar census identified the privileged and under-privileged castes. Go national now

Dr Ambedkar's goal of annihilation of caste cannot be achieved by closing our eyes to the existence of caste and caste-based inequalities.

The value of a ‘Vote’ and a ‘Voter’ & ‘Hindutva protection guard’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Bihar caste survey puts Siddaramaiah in fix — why releasing 2015 ‘caste census’ worries Karnataka CM

Congress has been among the supporters of a nationwide caste census and had Monday welcomed the Bihar government’s move to release the results of its caste survey.

Continue on Hindutva path or give in to Mandal politics — BJP’s 2024 dilemma after Bihar caste survey

Often tagged a 'party of upper-castes', the ruling BJP is already facing demands from the Opposition for a national caste census ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Caste census will be INDIA’s rallying point in run up to 2024, but why BJP may not be overly anxious yet

Ruling party has learnt to counter conventional identity-based social justice politics as seen in its move to boost OBC representation & focus on delivering welfare schemes.

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Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.