Caste census

Open Magazine reported that the airline chief “found the query strange and bordering on the frivolous. It left him with a sense of disbelief.”

Back in 2020, when the country battling the Covid pandemic, Yogendra Yadav along with several ‘economists, intellectuals and activists’ had proposed a 7-point action plan to combat the pandemic. In this, point number 7.1 had called for the government to take over all properties of private citizens and treat them as national resources.

Despite being well aware that Rohit Vemula was not a Dalit and that his suicide had nothing to do with caste discrimination, the Congress party chose to politically exploit his untimely death in its manifesto.

“Disrespect for Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi's legacy”: Anand Sharma objects to caste census promised by Rahul Gandhi

Pragya Mishra claimed that the loss in Rajya Sabha election would benefit Samajwadi Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha poll, because the 'traitor' MLAs have been filtered out.

Rahul Gandhi claimed that PM Modi was born into Teli ‘upper caste’ Modh Ghanchi family and is not from the OBC community as he claims and his party’s government included his caste as OBC in 2000. It is interesting to note that Gandhi very shrewdly twisted the facts here.

The recent resurgence of caste politics in Bihar raises concerns about Bihar's economic trajectory. Odisha's per capita GDP is thrice that of Bihar.

The Bihar government had put the entire might of the administration at work to conduct the caste-based survey in the state.

BJP has been demanding a probe in the teachers' recruitment process alleging that 37,500 teachers already in service have been reappointed and 30,000 are from other states.

As per the proposal, the current reservation for SC which stands at 16%, could be increased to 20%, reservations for ST could be raised from 1% to 2%.