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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of former Congress member and now supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Acharya Pramod Krishnam, speaking about ending caste-based reservation in India at a rally is viral online as recent. BOOM found that the claims are misleading, the video of Krishnam is from September 2023 and he made these statements when he was a part of the Congress. He was expelled from Congress in February this year. In the viral video, Krishnam can be heard saying, "Politicians who accuse us of casteism are the ones who are politicians only for a few castes. They threaten us. I want ...
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By Ritika Jain The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of the Centre's 10 per cent quota in jobs and education for the economically weaker section of society. The Constitution Bench ruled 3:2 in favour of the EWS Quota with Chief Justice UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat dissenting. The top court dealt with three major points of law: Whether the 103rd Constitution Amendment breached the basic structure by permitting the State to make special provisions, including reservation, based on economic criteria; if the amendment violated provisions by permitting the State to m...
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By Srijit Das A photo of a bungalow in Aranmula, Kerala is being shared with the false claim that it shows a house owned by a person who used caste-based reservations to get into elite educational institutions and amass wealth. The post goes on to claim that the person studied at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) while giving it an anti-reservation spin. BOOM found that the viral claim is false. We spoke to the former owner of the property who ran a homestay at the place and he denied the viral claim clarifying that neither he nor the current o...
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By Anmol Alphonso A viral graphic claiming BR Ambedkar said reservations in India should be abolished the day a tribal woman becomes president of the country, is fake and has been falsely attributed to him. BOOM did not find any evidence to corroborate that such a statement was ever made by Ambedkar. Furthermore, experts who have studied his work, have dismissed the quote. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a Dalit activist, social reformer, politician, economist and jurist, who is renowned for his role in the fight against discrimination of Dalits, and in the drafting of the Indian Constitution. It i...
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