With Kamandal (Hindutva) as a steady ideological base ... Clearly, caste is a slippery slope as Janata Dal’s VP Singh of Mandal 1.0 learnt the hard way. There are many challenges ahead. For BJP it is ...

In the 1990s, the VP Singh and Narasimha Rao governments clashed with the court over reservations and economic reforms, but judicial independence prevailed through landmark rulings like Indra Sawhney ...

It was VP Singh, as the Prime Minister, who took the biggest bet on caste on the national stage, implementing the Mandal Commission report in 1990, hoping to gain from it. However, it triggered a ...

This is a variation of what was once known as the Mandal-Kamandal politics which was a combination of Dalit politics unleashed by the Mandal Commission report and the Hindootva ideology of the BJP. In ...

Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday amid heightened tensions with Pakistan, which has threatened nuclear retaliation to any Indian military action following the ...

Bharathi said it was under the VP Singh government -- with the DMK’s support -- that the Mandal Commission’s 27% reservation in central jobs was implemented and the Cauvery Water Disputes ...

Navjot Singh Sidhu recently held a press conference in Amritsar to announce the launch of his YouTube channel. Four years ago, his press conferences were centred on saving Punjab and targeting his own ...

The country saw a churn in political dynamics when former Prime Minister VP Singh implemented the Mandal Commission recommendations in December 1990, reserving 27 per cent of government jobs for OBCS.

Interestingly, when former Prime Minister VP Singh had announced the implementation of the Mandal Commission report in 1990, his timing was also questioned by the then opposition led by Congress ...

It was the Congress party. When VP Singh government implemented the Mandal Commission report, it was the BJP that supported that government. It was our suggestion to implement the Mandal ...

He questioned who was responsible for keeping the Mandal Commission report locked away for 10 years. “In the government led by VP Singh, the Mandal Commission report was implemented on our (BJP ...

it eventually culminated in a pan-India assertion for recognition of an umbrella category called the OBC when the Mandal Commission report was formally accepted by the V P Singh led National Front ...