"PM Modi, BJP are against caste census": RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav

"Caste census should be conducted in the nation...PM Modi and the BJP are against the caste census, and as a reason, the caste census is not being done...When the real picture of the nation comes forward, their politics on Hindu-Muslim will end," Tejashwi Yadav told ANI on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi also attacked the BJP over the caste census and alleged that they "don't want to reveal the share that minorities get in this country."

"We took a revolutionary step of caste census in Telangana. A few months before that, I had asked PM Narendra Modi in Parliament that we should get a caste census done in the country... I wanted to know who had what share in this country and whether this country truly respected the tribal, Dalit, and backward communities... PM Narendra Modi and RSS clearly refused the caste census because they don't want to reveal the share that minorities get in this country... I told him that we will pass the caste census law in the Parliament right in front of you," Rahul Gandhi said.

Moreover, the two-day Ahmedabad session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) included a detailed discussion on the caste census.

Congress MP Deepender Hooda said that the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will take the demand for a caste census forward.

"There was a detailed discussion about our demand for a caste census for social justice. We will symbolically do our programs to take the demand forward. We demand that the government conduct a caste census so that every section gets rights according to its population," Hooda told reporters.

"Rahul Gandhi is taking this thinking forward as a hero of social justice. The caste census and the kind of reservation system that our government of Telangana has done after that was also praised in the working committee," he added. (ANI)