Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday said that there is a need for the Central government to sit with states and make a long-term plan to curb pollution in Northern India.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Senior leader and Politbureau member of the Party, Brinda Karat on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for rooting out casteism because the caste census is a popular demand across the country.
As of now, caste census is the need of the country because the nation will not be able to progress as long as there are some groups in the country who are not as uplifted, said Tiwari.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that if his party comes to power in Telangana in the upcoming assembly election, a cast survey will be conducted in the state. A survey like this, he said, would reveal how much Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao's family "looted" from Telangana
In response to the growing political divisions surrounding the much-debated caste-based census, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav reaffirmed the Samajwadi Party's unwavering commitment to the cause.
Congress on Tuesday released its manifesto for the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls next month and made a slew of promises including Old Pension Scheme, caste census, Nari Samman Nidhi of Rs 1500 per month to women, Rs 25 lakh health insurance and 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in governme
As the BJP and the opposition INDIA alliance are at loggerheads over the caste-based census, Janta Dal United (JDU) leader Neeraj Kumar has alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi belonged to the upper caste and he misled the voters by saying that he belonged to OBC.
With the clamour for caste census intensifying, the BJP leader said that as soon as the elections are close at hand, Congress tries to find issues that would give them political gains and that it could cause a major division in the society.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday attacked the Centre and Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh, saying that the BJP "snatched the rights" given by the Congress government to the people and farmers have not been given their due
Akhilesh Yadav said, "Caste-based census will bring everyone together. the castes that were left behind, those who are not given respect and rights yet, and those who think that their population is more but they are not getting anything according to it, I think caste-based census will integr