NEW DELHI: Manoj Tiwari on Sunday said that Rahul Gandhi needed a mental health checkup, accusing him of wanting to know everyone’s caste, however, not ready to reveal his own.“Rahul Gandhi needs medical treatment, his mental health check-up needs to be done,” the BJP leader said.“The most worrying is that he wants to know the…
NEW DELHI: On a day Congress MPs protested in Lok Sabha over BJP MP Anurag Thakur‘s remarks in the House over caste census, which were seen as a “caste slur” on Rahul Gandhi, the saffron party strongly defended its MP and said he had not taken anyone’s name but even if the comments were aimed…
NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Anurag Thakur, in a sharp response to Akhilesh Yadav, shared an old video on Wednesday showing the Samajwadi Party chief inquiring about a journalist’s caste and name.Thakur shared the video with the caption, “Jaati kaise pooch li Akhilesh Ji? (How can you ask about the caste)” How it started?It started…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday strongly opposed the police advisory to display the names of eatery owners along the Kanwar Yatra route in Uttar Pradesh and accused it of being against the Constitution.In a social media post on X, Priyanka said, “Creating division in society on the basis of caste and…
LUCKNOW: Jatavs, the core of BSP’s vote base, stood by it in the Lok Sabha elections but Muslim voters didn’t despite being given a choice of candidates representing the community, party chief Mayawati said Wednesday in her first response to drawing a blank in UP.“People from my caste voted mostly for BSP and I am…
Caste is ever centre stage in India’s dance of ‘democracy’. Politicians invariably keep caste equations in mind when addressing rallies. One slip of tongue can cause an irreversible slide.Which is where Rajya Sabha member Parshottam Rupala, MoS for fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, may have found himself after his comment on Kshatriyas. But that’s not…
NEW DELHI: The Rajasthan government on Saturday issued an order for conducting a caste survey in the state.According to the order issued by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, the Rajasthan government will conduct the survey with its own resources for collecting information and figures related to social, economic and educational level of all…
