Union Minister of State for Tourism Suresh Gopi has come under fire from various quarters for his remarks on Sunday, suggesting that individuals from the "upper caste" should be appointed to oversee the tribal affairs portfolio.
While Mr. Adityanath was quick to announce that the case would be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, this has not evoked a positive response from the family of the victim.
Jeetendra was critically injured and died at a hospital in Dehradun after nine days of treatment.
Criticism that the normative appeal of affirmative action will be diluted by introduction of economic quota is ill-founded
In the latest incident, two young lovers were killed, their bodies were chopped into pieces and burnt on the same funeral pyre in Gaya
The unreserved category itself is a class and it is not an option for the State to effect reservations on the grounds that a part of this section is economically weaker as envisaged by the government
The Rajya Sabha late on Wednesday passed the Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill, 2019 making 10 per cent reservation to upper castes in government jobs and higher educational institutions a law.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday targeted the the Congress, hailed the upper caste quota bill, and tried to assuage the concerns of the protesting people of northeast during a rally in Maharashtra's Solapur.
Parliament on August 9 had passed a bill to overturn the apex court order concerning certain safeguards against arrest under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe law.
