Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Nana Patole demanded on Wednesday that the central government clarify its stance on the caste-based census. He also urged the Centre to immediately carry out a decennial census, which has not been done since 2021.
"The complete report of the caste-based census will come after the analysis. They have not done anything new. The assumptions that were already there, are in the report. They presented it as a miracle or a big change. Everybody already knows what you are saying. Everybody knows the data figu
"It is important to know who are these people who cleans our drains, who stays at Jhuggis, who are labourers, who are landless...this census has made it clear whose population is how much in the state and what is their economic state," Yadav said speaking to reporters at Patna on Monday.
Reacting to the caste-based census report released by Bihar Government, Singh told ANI, “I have always supported this. If we come to power here, we will also get a caste-based census done in Madhya Pradesh.”
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday targeted the Central government over their affidavit in the Supreme Court on Bihar’s government decision to conduct a caste-based census in the state.
Janata Dal-United (JDU) leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary has slammed the Central government on filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court against Bihar’s government decision to conduct caste-based census in the state.
After the union government filed an affidavit against the Bihar government's decision to conduct a caste-based survey in the state, Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav took a swipe at the Centre, accusing it of ‘lying and suppressing the truth’.
Referring to the ruling by the Patna High Court, which has approved the caste census by the Bihar government, the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh said that demand for a similar census in UP was gaining momentum but the ruling BJP was not prepared for it.
After the Supreme Court declined to lift the stay order passed by the Patna High Court on the caste-based survey in the Bihar state, Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Prof. Manoj Jha on Friday called the verdict as "a setback for people of the state".
Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Karol on Wednesday recused from hearing the Bihar Government plea challenging the Patna High Court order putting an interim stay on the caste-based census in the state.