MUMBAI: It is 9pm. Ambedkar Chowk, the sprawling Dalit ‘basti’ in Kurla seems to have stirred itself to bring a change. Even if the youngsters’ plan for the elections sounds ambitious, a perceptible new leaning is sweeping through here and […]
Of the 18 lakh total voters in Solapur seat, nearly four lakh are Dalit. AT HIS rally in Matang vasti of Solapur city on April 19, Vanchit Bhujan Agadhi president Prakash Ambedkar, who is also the candidate from Solapur Lok […]
Mumbai: After playing the emotional card with first-time voters in Latur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP’s star campaigner, played the caste card in Solapur. Mr Modi said he belonged to a lower caste, and was thus being criticised. He […]
The alliance of Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar’s VBA and Assaddudin Owaisi’s AIMIM has declared that it will be contesting all the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra.How much challenge will the alliance between Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi […]
Mumbai and Nashik: When Kamal Gangrude looks across at the fields beside her home on the valley floor, she sees swathes of farmland which this year will not be weeded, ploughed or planted. Sold to developers who will build factories […]
SOLAPUR: For the first time, Solapur — the south-western Maharashtra town famous for bed sheets, towels and beedies — is seeing a triangular contest. This time there are two prominent contestants — former Union minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Dr Babasaheb […]
On the evening of April 10, thousands of people gathered in the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Solapur, better known as Park Maidan, to listen to the double bill of Prakash Ambedkar, chief of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, and its candidate […]
After successfully stitching a caste combination alliance of Maratha, Muslim and Kunbi (DMK) in Vidarbha, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has been emphasising on the Maratha, Dalit and Muslim (MDM) factor in Marathwada for the ensuing Lok […]
Following the complaint, Pimpri Chinchwad police arrested brick kiln owner Sandip Pawar (42), who belongs to the upper caste Maratha community. Pawar was, however, released on bail a few days later. Activists of various organisations led by noted social leader […]
BJP’s Jaisiddheshwar Mahaswamiji, Congress’s Sushil Kumar Shinde and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s Prakash Ambedkar are in the fray for Solapur seat. In the triangular fight for the Solapur Lok Sabha seat, all major political parties have selected their candidates keeping a […]
