
Indian Ministers Clash Over Reservation Quotas, Demand Resignations
Union ministers Chirag Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi engaged in a public dispute over scheduled caste and tribe reservation policies, with both officials calling for the other to step down. The confrontation highlights growing political tensions within the ruling coalition over affirmative action reforms.
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Union ministers Chirag Paswan, Jitan Ram Manjhi clash over SC/ST reservations, demand each other's resignations
Jitan Ram Manjhi has backed the line, framing it as social justice and citing SC's 2024 judgment permitting sub-classifications based on empirical data.
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Chirag Paswan's stance is in line with that of his late father Ram Vilas Paswan, who had fiercely opposed a separate "Mahadalit" category introduced in the state more than a decade ago by the then chief minister Nitish Kumar.
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