Repeating what he said in the Lok Sabha during his intervention on the Women's Reservation Bill that there are only three OBC bureaucrats working for the government of India, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi why is he scared of the caste census.&nb
Addressing an event in the national capital on Sunday, the Congress leader said, "What you're seeing today, Bidhuri, and then suddenly this Nishikant Dubey, this is all the BJP trying to distract from the idea of the Caste census."
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday expressed his regret that the Other Backward Class (OBC) quota was not provided under the Bill brought by United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in 2010.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the Women’s Reservation Bill is a “distraction tactic” by the BJP-led government to take away the attention of people from demands such as caste census and said nobody knows when the legislation will be implemented.
“I would like to ask a question. Indian women have been waiting for their political responsibilities for the last 13 years. Now they are being asked to wait for a few more years. How many years? Is this behaviour with Indian women appropriate? INC demands that the Bill be implemente
The INDIA bloc comprising over two dozen opposition parties decided to hold their first joint public meeting in Bhopal in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh in the first week of October and said the constituent parties will start seat-sharing talks at the earliest.
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.
Terming NDA as ‘No Data Available’, the Congress has every G20 country except India has managed to conduct the census, despite COVID-19, including other developing countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and South Africa.
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’.