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caste politics

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Karnataka Congress minister says draconian Rohith Vemula Act will be introduced soon, claims ‘it is more important now after SC stayed UGC guidelines’

OpIndia Staff - 1 February, 2026

Karnataka's Higher Education Minister MC Sudhakar has announced that the state government is preparing to introduce the Rohith Vemula Bill, aimed at preventing caste-based...

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Why Gujarat is being pushed back towards caste politics after a decade of development-centric governance

મેઘલસિંહ પરમાર - 5 January, 2026

Gujarat is being deliberately pushed back towards caste-driven politics through a systematic opposition-led ecosystem that has little left to lose and no developmental pitch on which it can compete.

UP: Hariom Valmiki’s family refuses to be a part of Rahul Gandhi’s politics, Congress leader still peddles false ‘caste atrocity’ angle after meeting family

OpIndia Staff - 17 October, 2025

On Friday, 17 October, Congress MP and leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi arrived at Raebareli to meet the family members of Hariom Valmiki,...

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Modi government decides to include caste enumeration in next census, slams Congress for opposing census and favouring non-transparent caste surveys

OpIndia Staff - 30 April, 2025

The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has that caste census will be conducted along with the next general census.

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Congress policy is to make one caste of Hindus fight against another caste, but they never talk about castes among Muslims: PM Narendra Modi

ANI - 9 October, 2024

A day after securing a historic win in Haryana Assembly elections, PM Narendra Modi lambasted the Congress party, accusing them of dividing the Hindu society for political gains.

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Rahul Gandhi’s caste representation rhetoric is more preaching and less practice: CWC is proof, with only 5 out of 39 SC leaders

Anurag - 26 August, 2024

There are 39 members listed in the recent CWC composition, out of which at least 25 belong to the General category or Upper Caste including Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, P. Chidambaram, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi.

Books

How Varna of Vedic era has been corrupted into vote-bank and caste-wars in modern times. Evolution of ‘caste’ though ages

Rajiv Malhotra - 9 July, 2024

What ‘caste’ was in the Vedic era, how it interplays with birth and occupation, and how it has evolved through various stages of history. An excerpt from Rajiv Malhotra’s book.

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Rahul Gandhi now drags even the Judiciary in his toxic Caste rhetoric, says Tribal CM is still in jail while Kejriwal is out on...

Shraddha Pandey - 23 May, 2024

Rahul Gandhi said that he has been sitting in the system from the inside since the day he was born and the system is aligned against the lower castes

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Rohith Vemula Act, caste census, more than 50% reservation: Congress manifesto eyes to divide India further along caste lines

Dibakar Dutta - 5 April, 2024

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.

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