BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal (a critic of Karnataka CM B S Yediyurappa) with members the Panchamasali (Lingayat) community during a rally demanding for the inclusion of Lingayat...

Members of the Panchamasali (Lingayat) community during a rally demanding for the inclusion of Lingayat community in the 2A reservation category, in Bengaluru.

People, belonging to scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward classes stand in queue to claim their rights at a certification camp by the backward classes welfare depart...

People, belonging to scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward classes stand in queue to claim their rights at a certification camp by the backward classes welfare depart...

Rajak community members stage 'Jal Satyagraha' agitation in Narmada River demanding Scheduled Caste Status for them, in Jabalpur.

Left parties activist stage a protest the suicide of post-graduate woman medical student Payal Tadvi, in Mumbai.

DPCC President Sheila Dikshit participates in Valmiki Mahapanchayat organised by Valmiki Samaj representatives over their demands at Mavlankar Hall, in New Delhi.

Kalita Janagosthi Sanmilan activists raise slogans during a protest demanding Schedule Tribe (ST) status at Six Mile, in Guwahati.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad after being released from Saharanpur Jail, in Saharanpur. Azad was arrested from Himachal Pradesh's Dalhousie in June last year in connection wi...

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad being released from Saharanpur Jail, in Saharanpur. Azad was arrested from Himachal Pradesh's Dalhousie in June last year in connection with the...

Several upper caste organisation activists raise slogans and burn tyres during 'Bharat Bandh' protest called over SC/ST Amendment Act, in Varanasi.

Akhil Bhartiya Swarn Sena activists protest outside state BJP office during their ‘Bharat Bandh’ against SC/ST Amendment Bill, in Patna.

Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram (L) and MSME minister Giriraj Singh (R) during National SC-ST Hub State Conclave-cum-Exhibition in Bhubanes...

Family Line

Khasi women and girls at a market in Shillong

A delegation of OBC MPs and leaders calls on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after the passage of OBC bill, in New Delhi.

Quid Pro Quo

O.P. Rajbhar (left) had threatened to ­boycott a Rajya Sabha poll before he got to meet Amit Shah

Once Lucky

(From left) Anupriya Patel, Keshav Maurya and CM Yogi in Lucknow

Members from Jharkhand Kurmi Vikash Morcha (OBC) raise slogans demanding for reservation during Jharkhand Bandh torchlight procession in Ranchi.

DMK leader M K Stalin, MDMK Chief Vaiko, VCK Leader Thol Thirumavalavan at a demonstration against dilution of certain provisions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Preventi...

BJP National President Amit Shah addresses OBC Convention in Kaginele, Karnataka.