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Hyderabad: The Telangana government's Special Leave Petition (SLP) challenging the Telangana High Court's interim stay on 42 per cent reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) in local body elections will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Thursday. The state government moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday against the High Court's September 9 order suspending GO 9, which enhanced the BC quota in local bodies to 42 per cent. The SLP, filed by advocate Devina Sehgal on behalf of the state go ...Read More >
Akhilesh Yadav promised journalists that even cases against them would also be withdrawn when the SP government comes to power and added, "We would even help you with Income Tax and ED cases as well." Announcing Azam Khan's release from Sitapur jail, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav Tuesday said cases against the leader would be withdrawn when the party comes to power. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO Amid speculations about Khan joining the Bahujan Samaj Party, Akhilesh called him the main ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: EC on Thursday revised the rules relating to counting of postal ballots, making it mandatory for all postal ballot papers to be counted before the penultimate round of EVM/VVPATs counting is taken up.The new practice will be first implemented in Bihar where assembly polls are due in Nov.This restores the arrangement prior to May 2019, when EC had changed the guidelines to allow EVM counting to proceed regardless of postal ballot counting stage. The 2019 change did not rule out chances ...Read More >
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said caste remains an "emotional connect" for backward communities, as reservation itself is granted on caste basis. Addressing a press conference at the SP office in Lucknow, he said the BJP is "afraid of PDA unity" -- referring to the alliance of backward classes, Dalits, and minorities. Yadav said, "The Mandal Commission stated that we are backward due to caste, and reservation was given on that basis. Today, when we released data ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The OBC versus Maratha community tussle over reservation is heating up with OBC leader and NCP minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Friday taking his own government to task for bending backwards for the Maratha community on reservations. "The Maratha community gets Rs 25,000 crore (under various state government schemes whereas the OBC community gets Rs 5,000 crore. Where is justice in this. For the Maratha community there are newer announcements (of govt schemes) almost every other day," said B ...Read More >
Mumbai, September 3: The cabinet sub-committee chairman on Maratha reservation and Water Resources Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil on Wednesday said that the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the real architect of historic decisions, including the implementation of the Hyderabad Gazette providing Kunbi certificates to the Maratha community. Minister Vikhe-Patil, who, along with members of the cabinet subcommittee, held talks with pro-Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil on Tuesday, fu ...Read More >
PATNA: Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad was formally elected as national president of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Saturday. Though he was elected unopposed on June 24, a formal announcement about him being elected for the 13th term was made at the party's national council meeting on Saturday (July 5, 2025). Addressing workers at the national council meeting, Lalu exuded confidence that a new government with coalition partners would be formed in Bihar after assembly elections, barely th ...Read More >
While both Nitish and Chirag are key allies of the BJP-led NDA, their relations have been strained, with the LJP(RV) chief now positioning himself for a larger role in Bihar politics. Barely three weeks after Union minister Chirag Paswan stirred Bihar politics by announcing that he would contest in the upcoming state Assembly polls, the LJP (Ram Vilas) president is going to step up pressure on ally JD (U) by holding a rally in Rajgir - in Nalanda district, the home turf of Chief Minister and JD ...Read More >
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