LS polls: SP, BSP plan to garner Brahmin votes

Poster perfectPhotographers in Lucknow never had it so good. The Brahmin Sammelan in Lucknow this week had most of the young brahmin leaders clamouring for space on hoardings. And for this, they all had extensive photo sessions since each one wanted to look ...

Mayawati with Satish Mishra Battle lines are drawn in Uttar Pradesh. This time, for the Brahmin vote. As arch rivals Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) woo the Brahmins in the state, desperate to grab the upper class vote, it looks ...

He said even other senior leaders like Chaudhary Charan Singh, whom the SP claimed to be following, were against this system and thus this act of the SP

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has been talking about the need to empower Dalits, tribals, OBCs, minorities and the marginalised, but his passion for these sections has upset the powerful Brahmin lobby in the party.Sources say if the upper ...

Pallava, Chola and Pandya kings established Brahmin settlements called Chaturvedi mangalam in many places in Tamil Nadu. Sociologist Andre Beteille writes in his book: "Later the term agraharam came into use to refer to a community of Brahmins, to ...

Union minister of state for human resource development Jitin Prasada on Wednesday said recent attempts by BSP and SP to woo the Brahmin community in UP will not lead to any electoral gain as the community can see through their vote bank politics.

The much hyped 'Brahmin convention' of the Samajwadi Party appears to have embroiled in a controversy over supremacy of Brahmin SP leaders in the state.

Lucknow, May 13 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said Brahmins always vote for a change and this time they will certainly give the party a chance to form the government at the Centre. 'The previous trends show that Brahmins ...