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Opposition parties connected Monday (September 23, 2025) questioned the Uttar Pradesh authorities directives prohibiting caste-based governmental rallies and different caste centered signs and asked what would beryllium done to region the caste favoritism that has been ingrained successful the minds of the radical for 5,000 years and called the directives eyewash.
Posing 5 questions implicit the decision, the Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav asked, “What volition beryllium done to region the caste favoritism that has been ingrained successful our minds for 5,000 years and what volition beryllium done to eradicate caste favoritism arising from caste-display done clothing, costumes and symbols?”
Mr. Yadav further went connected to ask, what volition beryllium done to extremity the caste favoritism mentality of asking someone’s caste earlier their sanction erstwhile they conscionable them, what measures volition beryllium taken to extremity the caste-based favoritism of getting someone’s location washed and what volition beryllium done to extremity caste-based conspiracies to defame idiosyncratic by making mendacious and defamatory allegations.
SP spokesperson Rajkumar Bhati alleged that the Uttar Pradesh authorities is acrophobic of the governmental consciousness of the Gurjar community. “This is precisely what tin beryllium interpreted as: On Sunday, September 21st, the Uttar Pradesh authorities issued a authorities bid banning caste rallies and conferences successful Uttar Pradesh. Previously, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) itself had been organising caste rallies and conferences.”
“Before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, meetings of assorted castes were held continuously for a period astatine the BJP’s bureau successful Lucknow. The BJP besides posted a motion successful Lucknow announcing the fig of ministers from each caste appointed by its government. Yogi Adityanath held a roadworthy amusement during the Ghaziabad assembly by-election. During the one-kilometre roadworthy show, invited platforms for 10 castes were acceptable up, with the names of the antithetic castes written connected them.”
“Today, erstwhile a run is underway to rise governmental consciousness among the Gurjar assemblage and we person announced a monolithic Gurjar rally, however did the authorities abruptly retrieve that rallies should not beryllium held successful the sanction of castes?” said Mr. Bhati.
The Congress described the determination arsenic unsafe and an eyewash to soundless voices emerging from the Dalit, backwards, marginalised and different subaltern communities.
“Baba Saheb Ambedkar called for an adjacent nine based connected the conception of justice. The constituent is that injustice, unfairness, bias, and prejudice based connected caste ended successful Uttar Pradesh; the wide reply is no, those successful powerfulness discriminate against downtrodden, Dalits, backwards and minorities based connected individuality done aggregate ways, from fake encounters to bias successful appointment. This determination to prohibition caste-based references oregon mobilisation volition further embolden the forces of injustice and yet people societal community-based groups who combat against discrimination,” said Anil Yadav, a elder U.P. Congress leader.
On Sunday, September 21, Uttar Pradesh’s officiating Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar issued a 10-point directive to each the territory magistrates and constabulary chiefs, adding that caste-based rallies for governmental purposes are against nationalist bid and prohibit them successful immoderate form, similar signboards, societal media astatine nationalist places. The bid besides directed that caste volition nary longer beryllium mentioned successful constabulary records, similar FIRs oregon apprehension memos. The bid is taken connected the directives of the Allahabad High Court.
