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TopicDalit outreach

Topic: dalit outreach

BJP’s Ravidas Jayanti push to woo Dalits in poll-bound states — shobha yatras, sant sammelans

In BJP's national executive meet this month, PM Modi had urged leaders to visit Sant Ravidas temples & reach out to Dalits. State units now set to celebrate Ravidas Jayanti in a big way.

To beat anti-incumbency in MP, BJP eyes tribal, Dalit outreach in seats where it fared badly

In Delhi meeting with MP leaders ahead of 2023 polls, BJP leadership told state unit to expand cabinet to include more tribal members. RSS urged SC/ ST outreach to recover lost ground.

Will push Modi govt on Dalit issues, but won’t rush out of alliance like TDP: Chirag Paswan

LJP leader said his father, Ram Vilas Paswan will host SC and ST MPs across party lines.

‘Reaching out to Dalits’ is the political flavour, but BJP & Congress are failing at it

Both Congress and BJP jostle it out to woo them, though quite crudely. They think that they will bag Dalit votes by this ‘dinner...

Dalits lash out at BJP leaders’ visits to their homes, call them ‘pointless’ and a ‘farce’

At the end of BJP’s Dalit outreach programme, Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, members of the community say they won’t fall for the party’s ‘vote-bank politics’.

Modi takes a leaf out of Anna Hazare’s book, asks MPs to fast in protest against Congress

The second half of the Budget session, which began 5 March and ended Friday, did not see any legislative business barring the passage of the finance Bill.

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Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.