Chauri Chaura in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district is remembered in history books for the incident in 1922 when fire was opened at freedom fighters, who burnt...
As Uttar Pradesh gears up for polling in 59 constituencies on Sunday in the third round of the ongoing seven-phase assembly elections, the focus is back...
Uttar Pradesh is all set for the second phase of the assembly elections on February 14. Over 2 crore people from 55 constituencies in nine districts...
Uttar Pradesh cabinet ministers Swami Prasad Maurya, Dara Singh Chauhan and Dharam Singh Saini created a flutter last month after they switched their allegiance from the...
This time, in the political arena of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party is being pitted against the mighty BJP. The saffron party has not only...
They have left to fulfil their “self-interest” and not for “any ideology”, the BJP leader said.(PTI/File) Recently, Swami Prasad Maurya, Dara Singh Chauhan and Dharam Singh...
The BJP on Saturday released its first list of 107 candidates for the first two phases of Uttar Pradesh elections 2022, allocating the biggest chunk of...
Three Uttar Pradesh ministers and 11 MLAs have quit the Bharatiya Janata Party. Most of them are ‘other backward class’ (OBC) leaders. Swami Prasad Maurya, a...
Riding on the Narendra Modi wave, a consolidation of the non-Yadav OBC and non-Jatav Dalit castes along with its traditional upper-caste vote bank, and a bitter...
In another jolt to the ruling BJP in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, OBC leader Dara Singh Chauhan resigned Wednesday from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet and appeared to...
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and several other people were detained at the Bhopal airport amid protest in Madhya Pradesh’s capital over reservation for Other Backward...
Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said the representation to backward classes in local bodies is necessary. (File photo: ANI) It was seconded by Leader of the Opposition...
After the Orissa High Court scrapped the state government’s provisions for reservation for backward castes in the upcoming three-tier panchayat elections, Opposition parties have been vociferous...
The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) on Friday said polls to local bodies from OBC reserved constituencies, which were scheduled on December 21, will now be...
Maharashtra local body polls is scheduled on December 21. (Image: News18/File) Shelar’s request came against the backdrop of the Supreme Court staying these polls on the...
The BJP is all set to launch its mega outreach programme aimed at OBC communities on October 8, coinciding with the festive season ahead of assembly...
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray (Image: News18) This decision was taken during the cabinet meeting, a statement issued by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said. PTI Mumbai...
Maharashtra state unit chief Nana Patole (File photo: ANI) OBCs used to get 27 per cent reservation in electoral wards of municipal bodies and zilla parishads...
The Maharashtra government will bring an ordinance to grant OBC quota in upcoming by-elections to a set of local governing bodies without crossing the Supreme Court-mandated...
Amid pressure from the opposition Congress, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led government in Madhya Pradesh has cleared 27 per cent reservation for other backward classes (OBC) in...