NRP Desk
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government notification on Sunday (September 21, 2025) prohibiting caste-based political rallies, mention of the caste of accused persons in police stations and on vehicles, signboards, etc. has created ferment on the ground among several social organisations centred around caste. Some of these outfits, primarily comprising Other Backward Classes (OBCs) communities or Dalit groups, said the move — prompted by a September 16 directive from a single-judge Bench of the Allahabad High Court to curb glorification of caste — may discourage increasing awareness of marginalised communities that are seeking representation and recognition in political and social circles through organised movements against caste-based discrimination. “Decades back, mostly privileged caste groups used to have social association which used to work as pressure group pushing their cause of representation and multiple benefits in front of government architecture. In the last decades, different agrarian or marginalised castes gained awareness and formed organisations backing their case of representative and stake in power sharing. This decision will discourage such a mobilisation of struggle for democratic and rightful participation,” said Rohit Bhadana, an office bearer associated with Akhil Bharatiya Veer Gurjar Mahasabha in Ghaziabad.
