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Madhya Pradesh: Losing Caste

The SC/ ST Amendment Bill has come back to haunt the state BJP. Upper classes take umbrage at the party's 'taunting of the general castes'.

The angry protests by upper caste groups in the wake of Parliament passing the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill in August (to restore the original law) could spell trouble for the ruling BJP in the coming assembly polls. While the protesters have targeted politicians of all hues, including Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya

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