OBC
- Telangana
KCR writes to PM Modi on 33% quota to OBCs in Parliament, state legislatures
Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samiti’s (BRS) parliamentary party, on Friday, September 15, passed a resolution demanding that 33 percent reservation for OBCs in Parliament and state legislatures. On the occasion, the BRS…
- India
Rohini panel report on OBCs likely to be major trump card for BJP in election year
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is expected to consider a report by the Justice Rohini Commission regarding the sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs). This report was submitted to President Draupadi…
- India
Jalna violence: Uddhav demands quota for Marathas, OBCs during spl Parl session
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday demanded the Centre provide reservations to Marathas and OBCs in the special session of Parliament convened later this month, a day after violence…
- India
Congress demands 27% reservation for OBCs in Gujarat local bodies, budgetary allocation
Gandhinagar: The Congress on Tuesday demanded a 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) in local bodies in Gujarat and asked the government to make public the Justice Jhaveri…
- India
Raj govt will hike OBC quota from 21% to 27%, says Ashok Gehlot
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has announced that the state government will hike OBC reservation from 21 percent to 26 percent, and the additional 6 percent will go to most backward…
- India
OBC leaders’ defection big worry for SP ahead of LS 2024
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has a big worry with its OBC stakeholders, with half a dozen leaders from these communities having already defected to BJP in the past few months.…
- India
Rohini commission for examining sub-categorisation of OBCs submits report to President
New Delhi: The Rohini Commission, constituted to examine the sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs), has submitted its report to President Droupadi Murmu. The Commission for Other Backward Classes was appointed through…
- India
Gujarat: Dalit brothers killed over land dispute in Surendranagar
Surendranagar: Two Dalit men were killed allegedly by a group of persons belonging to an OBC community over a land dispute in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district, police said on Thursday. The incident took…
- India
Karnataka BJP President Nalin Kumar Kateel to be shunted out
Bengaluru: The BJP is in the process of introspection following its humiliating defeat in the Karnataka Assembly elections and as a first follow-up action, has decided to shunt out state President Nalin…
- Bangalore
Not only Lingayat, BJP lost Dalit & OBC votes too in Karnataka
Bengaluru: When former chief minister and Lingayat strongman B.S. Yediyurappa stated in BJP’s national executive meeting that Karnataka elections can’t be won with the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the party…
- India
Muslim quota reservation unconstitutional: Karnataka govt to SC
The government of Karnataka has told the Supreme Court that reservation for Muslims solely on the basis of religion is unconstitutional as it goes against the mandate of Articles 14, 15 and…
- Hyderabad
‘Khattey dialog’aan..’: Owaisi slams HM Shah over promise to scrap Muslim quota
Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his promise that if the BJP is voted to power in Telangana, it will scrap reservations for Muslims in…
- India
BJP govt weakening Constitution, paying lip service to Ambedkar: Cong
New Delhi: The Congress accused the BJP-led Centre on Friday of attacking and weakening the Constitution and paying only lip service to its architect, BR Ambedkar. On Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, senior Congress…
- India
OBCs form 37-41% of urban population in UP: Govt report
Lucknow: The report submitted by the UP State Local Bodies Dedicated Backward Classes Commission for providing OBC quota for upcoming local body elections, shows that OBCs in the urban parts of the…
- India
Allahabad HC asks UP govt to upload OBC panel report on website
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to upload the OBC Commission’s report on OBC reservation in urban local bodies’ polls on the state…
