The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Bihar government on the plea challenging a caste-based survey in the state and refused to stay anything arising out of the publication of the data of the caste census.
"All BJP leaders in Madhya Pradesh, including CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan were shocked by the caste-based census. BJP is strongly against caste-based census. BJP's DNA is against OBCs," he added.
A Congress Working Committee meeting is likely to be held on October 9 in Delhi, to discuss various issues from the Women Reservation Act to the caste-based census, sources said on Wednesday.
According to Deputy superintendent of police of Nanded, Sushil Kumar Naik, the police have registered the case under the charges of criminal intimidation and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
"This government has failed on every front. Whether it is on providing employment to the youths or on inflation. Inflation is so high that the poor are being forced to drink poison. Everywhere there is instability. At this time ED has become the right hand of the BJP," Mehbooba Mufti said.
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.
A couple of days after the Bihar government released caste survey data, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Yadav asserted that caste census should be carried out throughout the country.
After Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi created a flutter with his post cautioning people against the idea of "Jitni abadi utna haq" (rights on the basis of population), party leader KC Venugopal on Tuesday said that his party has very clear stand over the matter and is in favour of i
As the Congress is pressing for a nationwide caste-based survey with its 'Jitni Abadi Utna Haq' chorus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that this "new thinking" of the grand old party will prove as a grave injustice to the entire southern region of the country which stabs the mi
After creating a flutter with his post cautioning people against the idea of "Jitni abadi utna haq" (rights on the basis of population), Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Tuesday claimed that he did not depart from his party's position on population-based rights.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed Congress over the 'Jitni aabadi utna haq' remark and said that 'mere liye gareeb sabse badi abaadi hai' (for me, the biggest population is poor).