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caste politics

News Reports

‘Congress is fundamentally anti-Hindu and pro-Muslim party, stops me from doing puja’: Uttar Pradesh Congress MLA Rakesh Singh

OpIndia Staff - 11 July, 2021

Congress MLA from Rae Bareli, Rakesh Singh, criticised his own party for indulging in politics of caste and religion

News Reports

Benjamin Netanyahu lost the chair after 12 years because he lost the Israeli ‘caste arithmetic’

Lev Aran - 19 June, 2021

Everyone thought Benjamin Netanyahu will show his magic and retain his posting as PM of Israel, but it didn’t happen

News Reports

Congress leader says fodder scam convict Lalu Yadav is in jail because of his ‘caste’

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2021

Udit Raj shared a picture of Lalu Yadav recuperating in a VIP hospital room and wrote that the reason behind the latter's suffering is his anti-BJP stance and his 'caste'.

Crime

From sexual harassment to breaking their own head with a brick: Here are 6 cases in 5 weeks where SC/ST Act was falsely used

Jhankar Mohta - 30 March, 2021

In many cases, people from SC/ST communities have been found using the Act for vengeance, settling personal scores in cases where there was no caste discrimination involved.

Politics

Rahul Gandhi insults Amethi voters who had elected him MP while campaigning in Kerala, fans North-South divide

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

Rahul Gandhi tries his best to impress his potential voters in Kerala even if it takes to deride the people in Northern India.

News Reports

Equality Labs and PJF: How a nexus of ‘anti-Brahminism’ Caste activists, Khalistanis and Pakistan’s ISI is working together to malign India abroad

K Bhattacharjee - 23 February, 2021

The darkest secret that the Greta toolkit has revealed is the alliance between Khalistanis and caste activists in the West

Crime

Why did India Today’s anchor contradict their own report? Unnao incident has the usual suspects peddling the same agenda

Sanghamitra - 18 February, 2021

A coordinated campaign to peddle casteist, political angles in the Unnao case is already afoot. Even India Today's anchor peddled the same narrative, and pure speculations, contradicting their own published report.

News Reports

‘Farmer’ protest turns into caste rally as Rakesh Tikait incites more people to join at Ghazipur, refuses to back down

OpIndia Staff - 29 January, 2021

Addressing farmers at the Ghazipur Border, Rakesh Tikait had said they would not surrender before the police and demanded that a Supreme Court-appointed committee should investigate the January 26 violence in Delhi.

Politics