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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The list of those who left the INC to form their own parties or to join political rivals is long. While the number itself is damning, what makes it worse for the Congress is the fact that most of those who left were influential people with their own support bases.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The list of those who left the INC to form their own parties or to join political rivals is long. While the number itself is damning, what makes it worse for the Congress is the fact that most of those who left were influential people with their own support bases.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The list of those who left the INC to form their own parties or to join political rivals is long. While the number itself is damning, what makes it worse for the Congress is the fact that most of those who left were influential people with their own support bases.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The list of those who left the INC to form their own parties or to join political rivals is long. While the number itself is damning, what makes it worse for the Congress is the fact that most of those who left were influential people with their own support bases.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For 17 years, that massive two-storey bungalow in Allahabad served as the party headquarters. With India getting its freedom in 1947, the party office shifted to the national capital’s 7, Jantar Mantar. That would remain the party office till 1969 — when the party split for the first time, a faction led by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi formed Congress (R), while the rest became known as Congress (O). After the split, Indira set up an office at Windsor Place. From there, the party office moved to 5, Rajendra Prasad Road in 1971; 24, Akbar Road in 1978 and now to 9-A, Kotla Road.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While the Akbar Road office had old-world charm — with its spacious lawns and wraparound rooms — the Kotla Road office bears resemblance to a corporate office. Even as the party says it won’t give up the Akbar Road bungalow and continue using it for “high-level meetings”, the new headquarters have offices for all its leaders, including the party president and the Gandhis.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, Anand Bhavan in Allahabad remains a cornerstone of the Congress’s history. At its entrance lies a small rock tablet that states: “This house is more than a structure of brick and mortar. It is intimately connected with our national struggle for freedom and within its walls great decisions were taken and great events happened.”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At the family residence-turned-museum, among other exhibits, is a presentation on the Nehru family’s role in the country’s freedom struggle. Author Rasheed Kidwai’s book, 24 Akbar Road, claims that visitor entry to rooms occupied by Jawaharlal and his family at Anand Bhavan is restricted. “Visitors can peer through the windows and see the rooms where the CWC (Congress Working Committee)meetings were held. The room in which Indira was born on 19 November 1917 is open to visitors.”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During the freedom struggle, several meetings of the CWC, the party’s top decision-making body, were held at Anand Bhavan. In fact, the first CWC was held in the building in 1931 and it was attended, among others, by Motilal, Jawaharlal, his wife Kamla Nehru and Ranjit Sitaram Pandit, the husband of Jawaharlal’s sister Vijaya Lakshmi.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in his defence that he came second by close margins in a tough constituency. But what became his calling card was that he has been “pathologically” opposed to former party insider Jyotiraditya Scindia. This testimonial seems to have clinched his case, since the party is looking to rebuild in the Gwalior-Chambal region after Scindia’s exit and defeat of key leaders in the recent assembly polls. That he is an OBC only boosted his claim.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==2014- Jan 24==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/exodus-of-frustrated-leaders-why-rahul-gandhis-former-aides-are-leaving-congress/articleshow/106834117.cms  January 14, 2024: ''The Times of India'']</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NEW DELHI: Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kapil Sibal, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Hardik Patel, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Sunil Jhakar, Jitin Prasada, RPN Singh and now Milind Deora. The list of leaders who have left Congress and joined rival political parties in recent years is getting longer by the day, signaling a continuing saga of dissatisfaction and unaddressed concerns.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Notably, most of these leaders were once considered close to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and have publicly expressed their frustration with the Wayanad MP for not addressing their concerns.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On Sunday, a familiar script played out when former South Mumbai MP Milind Deora ended his family's 55-year long association with Congress and joined the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The young leader, who was once a close aide of Rahul Gandhi, was apparently seeking assurance about his political future ever since the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena — or Shiv Sena (UBT) — laid claim to his stronghold of Mumbai South.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sources close to Deora told PTI that he left Congress after "a very long and futile wait" since the party failed to address his concerns.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Justifying Deora's decision, a close aide said that it is "impossible" to get an audience with Rahul Gandhi, adding that one feels "suffocated" within the party due to the clear disconnect.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Deora now joins a growing list of well-known former leaders who decided to exit the party for similar reasons.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Most of these leaders have joined BJP, while some have flocked over to other parties or have formed their own outfits. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The first and the most notable among them is Himanta Biswa Sarma, who became the chief minister of Assam under BJP.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In his long resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi, Sarma had called Rahul "arrogant" and accused the Congress leader of not listening to his concerns.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Former J&K chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had voiced similar concerns, saying that Rahul Gandhi “had demolished the entire consultative mechanism of the Congress”. He also called Gandhi "immature".</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Other ex-Congress leaders did not attack Rahul Gandhi directly but expressed their frustation over other issues such as lack of internal democracy and a disconnect with the leadership.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For instance, Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia was angry with the factionalism in the party's Madhya Pradesh unit when he resigned from Congress to join the BJP in March 2020.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Scindia said he could no longer take the disrespect coming from veteran Kamal Nath.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His resignation came as a huge setback for the grand old party as it led to the collapse of the Kamal Nath government in MP and paved the way for BJP's return in the state under Shivraj Singh Chouhan. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sachin Pilot, who was himself on the precipice of leaving Congress due to similar concerns in Rajasthan, decided to stay back in the grand old party despite his concerns going unaddressed. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But other leaders didn't show such patience.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In June 2021, former Union minister Jitin Prasada quit the Congress citing the party's growing disconnect with the people. While joining BJP, Prasada asserted that the saffron party is the only real political party in India.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/assembly-elections/karnataka/news/karnataka-poll-results-what-was-the-impact-of-rahul-gandhis-bharat-jodo-yatra/articleshow/100211563.cms  May 13, 2023: ''The Times of India'']</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NEW DELHI: With Karnataka giving an overwhelming mandate to the Congress, top leaders of the party were quick to give credit to Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, which they said brought to light the "hatred being spread by the BJP" all while "uniting the party, reviving the cadre and shaping the narrative for the Karnataka elections".</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In a tweet on Saturday, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said: "It was during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, from the many conversations that Rahul Gandhi had with the people of Karnataka, that the guarantees and the promises in our manifesto were discussed and finalised."</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Addressing reporters at the Congress headquarters in Delhi, Rahul said the Congress stood in support of the poor. "The poor defeated crony capitalists in Karnataka. What I really liked about this election is that we did not fight the battle with hatred. We fought the elections with love," he said.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Political representation for the backward classes, as well as demands for reservation on the lines of quotas for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, began soon after Independence.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1953, the government of Jawaharlal Nehru set up the first Backward Classes Commission (the expression ‘OBC’ was not in wide use at the time) under the chairmanship of Rajya Sabha member Kaka Kalelkar. The Commission submitted its report in 1955, but no action was taken on it.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gradually, OBCs in the Hindi heartland moved towards the socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia, and powered his politics in the early Sixties. After Lohia’s untimely demise in 1967 at age 57, Chaudhary Charan Singh, the Jat leader from Western UP, emerged as the leader of OBCs.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In October 1975, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, who was the Congress Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh between November 1973 and November 1975, appointed the Most Backward Classes Commission under the chairmanship of Chhedi Lal Sathi — the first push for an OBC quota in Uttar Pradesh.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Subsequently, in April 1977, the government of another Congress titan, N D Tiwari, who succeeded Bahuguna after a phase of President’s Rule, announced a 15 per cent quota in government jobs for OBCs in UP, perhaps the first such move anywhere in the country.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Within a week, however, Tiwari’s government was dismissed by the Janata Party government led by Prime Minister Morarji Desai, which had come to power at the Centre following the post-Emergency elections of March 1977.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Consequently, it was UP’s Janata government led by Ram Naresh Yadav (1977-79) which implemented the quota — and also took the credit for it.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In August 1990, the central government led by Congress rebel V P Singh announced its intention to implement the report of the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission, popularly known as the Mandal Commission.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Mandal Commission had been constituted by the Morarji government in 1978, and its report — recommending 27 per cent reservation for OBCs — had been submitted in 1980, but the governments of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi had chosen not to act on it.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The implementation of the report of the Mandal Commission unleashed a wave of OBC assertion and fundamentally altered the politics of North India. It catapulted leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad, Nitish Kumar, and Sharad Yadav to national prominence, and sealed the fate of the Congress in UP and Bihar.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In his 2006 biography of V P Singh, Manzil Se Zyada Safar, Ram Bahadur Rai quoted the former PM as having said: “Congress leaders were obsessed with power equations. They were least concerned with the social equations and changes taking place… It was unable to read the Mandal phenomenon. It took a lot of time to understand the importance of coalition power… The BJP has shown more flexibility than the Congress on (striking alliances).”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Indeed, the BJP — at that time still considered a largely Brahmin-Bania party — showed the political flexibility to project OBC leaders such as Kalyan Singh, a Lodh Rajput, in UP, to counter Mulayam. As Mulayam’s support base outside the Samajwadi Party’s Yadav-Muslim core started to fragment, Kalyan rallied smaller OBC communities behind the BJP, eventually forging a non-Yadav OBC vote bank. After OBC leaders like Kalyan and Uma Bharti became rebels within the party, the BJP revamped its leadership at every level to accommodate these communities politically.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 2006, Arjun Singh, the Union Human Resource Development Minister in the UPA-1 government, fought back pressures to push through 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in admissions to central educational institutions, which had been pending since the implementation of the Mandal report. It was one of the biggest decisions in favour of OBCs, and a defining moment in OBC politics — but hardly any gains accrued to the Congress.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 2010, the UPA-2 government initiated a move for a caste census. Then Law Minister Veerappa Moily wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about collecting caste/ community data in Census 2011. But on March 1, 2011, Home Minister P Chidambaram opposed the decision in Lok Sabha. Singh’s government ultimately decided to conduct a full Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) instead.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The SECC data was published by the Ministries of Rural Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, which conducted the census in rural and urban areas respectively, in 2016. However, the data remain unavailable. The Narendra Modi government has said it is “not reliable”.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There is no precise estimate of India’s OBC population. The National Commission for Backward Classes lists over 2,600 castes in the central list of OBCs for 27% reservation. The Mandal Commission said OBCs were 52% of the population. A report based on the National Sample Survey Organisation’s 61st round, released in October 2006, put this figure at 41%</ins></div></td></tr>
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