They also sought laws to enable states to provide ceiling-excess reservation...

New rule to give power to state to make own register on backward classes...

He claimed that it was only Jan Sangh or the BJP that actually worked for the betterment of the deprived sections of the society...

The house saw a structured and long debate on a bill, with each side seeking to underline their commitment for the politically and electorally significant class...

Opposition parties have previously accused Centre of assaulting India's federal structure for taking away the rights of states to form their own list of Other Backward Classes...

We will also push for caste-based census, says RJD's Manoj Sinha...

Groups representing socially and educationally backward classe welcomed the decision while some of them called it a corrective action by the central govt...

The party's spokesperson said the BJP is now in a self-congratulatory mode and is 'befooling' the country by creating a 'false narrative'...

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes already have quotas of 15 per cent and 7.5 per cent respectively...

10% has been reserved for economically weaker sections...