Owaisi demands OBC reservation for Muslims in Maharashtra

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 ...

Cutting across party lines, political leaders today demanded a census to ascertain the OBC population and its economic and educational staus in the country and accused the government of going back on its promise over the issue. Janata Dal (United) ...

Pradesh Congress Committee OBC Cell chairman Bishnu Charan Barik on Monday distributed the district charges among the cell's office-bearers to strengthen the organisation at the grassroots level. Distributing the new assignments, Barik said, During ...

Government is committed to providing 4.5 precent job reservation to backward Muslims and trying to expedite the matter pending before the Supreme Court, Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan said on Saturday. Addressing National Editors's ...

The minority community in Bihar, believed to form a major support base of Janata Dal(United), have started expressing reservations against CM Nitish Kumar’s ‘doublespeak’ on secularism. Prominent Muslim scholars, though, pleased by Nitish ...

In what could be described as a three-pronged strategy, three top Indian universities have joined hands to increase the participation of Muslims in media, civil and defence services in the country, Jamia Hamdard University (JHU), Jamia Millia ...

New Delhi, April 5 Ahead of the Assembly elections in many states this year and the 2014 and Lok Sabha polls, the government today said it would consider the long-pending Jat demand for grant of Other Backward Class (OBC) status in the central OBC ...

Caste has always been a key factor in any election in Karnataka. This time around the most important vote bank for any party will be the Muslims since all other castes in Karnataka will be divided in the way they vote. The Bharatiya Janata Party swept the elections last time around largely because it received the undivided vote share of the Lingayat community. The Lingayat vote bank is important as it constitutes 21 per cent of the vote share. But in this election the BJP is not confident of ...

In Hindi, the word 'mulayam' means soft. As a short but stout wrestler in his youth, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief was never soft on his rivals especially in rural wrestling bouts. That is why his political mentor Natthu Singh wanted him to join ...