Promise Adi Dravidar tag for 60 castes: VCK to DMK
‘Provide quota as per 2011 Census’ Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi general secretary and MP D. Ravikumar has demanded that Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M.K. Stalin include the promise that it would bring the remaining 60 Scheduled Castes — except castes that are classified as Devendrakula Velalars and Arundhathiyars — under the Adi Dravidar identity in their election manifesto. The demand comes in the wake of the Centre moving a Bill in Parliament to rename seven SC communities as Devendrakula Velalars. While the demand for recognition of identity was not new in the case of Dev...
Source: thehindu.com