Reacting to the newly released caste census in Bihar, BJP leader Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Saturday said that people of the state have been fooled by the Nitish Kumar government with this survey.
The petitioner's lawyer apprised the court that the Bihar Government has already published the caste survey data, prompting concerns and legal challenges from various quarters.
"They (Congress) used to divide society on the basis of caste, even today they are doing the same thing," PM Modi said speaking at a public meeting in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior.
The Bihar government released caste survey data, with the figures that have ramifications for the Lok Sabha polls next year, showing that Other Backward Caste (OBC) and Extremely Backward Class (EBC) together account for 63 per cent of the state’s population.
"The caste census of Bihar has revealed that OBC + SC + ST are 84% there. Out of 90 secretaries of the Central Government, only 3 are OBC, who handle only 5% of India's budget! Therefore, it is important to know the caste statistics of India. The greater the population, the greater the ri
Terming the INDIA Alliance Coordination Committee meeting "fruitful and positive", Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav said that all the parties would take up the issue of caste census.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday said that the BJP-led central government is looking at the recently conducted caste census in Bihar with hatred.
After a petition was filed in the Supreme Court against Bihar's government's decision to conduct a caste survey, Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday said that it is not a 'caste census but a caste-based census'.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to give an urgent hearing to the petition challenging the Bihar government's notification for conducting the Caste Census in the state.
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 25 (ANI): An all-party meeting on the caste-based census in Bihar will be held on June 1 under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna, informed Bihar Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary on Wednesday.