Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said that the government has taken a bold decision to include caste-based enumeration in the upcoming decadal census and called it a "transformative" and "game-changing" step.
Speaking to reporters in Jabalpur, Patwari said, "I would like to ask Dharmendra Pradhan that Rahul Gandhi set a vision of the caste census in front of this country. The BJP kept mocking and opposing it. The entire BJP was serving hatred. But finally Rahul Gandhi's point of caste census was
After the NDA CMs and Dy CMs meeting, Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde also spoke to the reporters and said, "Two resolutions were passed, first on Operation Sindoor and second on caste census. Everyone thanked and congratulated our armed forces and Prime Minister Modi for the success of
Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda addressed a press conference after the conclusion of the meeting and stated that Operation Sindoor, launched in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack, was highly praised by multiple leaders with the b
DU MP Sanjay Jha on Thursday questioned Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi's visit to a hostel in Darbhanga, accusing him of using the issue of reservation and caste census for political gain, particularly in the context of upcoming elections in Bihar.
Recently, the Karnataka government launched a comprehensive caste census targeting Scheduled Castes (SCs) to gather empirical data on sub-caste demographics.
Karnataka BJP President BY Vijayendra has accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of creating confusion regarding caste census in the state, further alleging that Siddaramaiah's government is doing "dirty politics" by using caste census.
Chhattisgarh DY CM Vijay Sharma criticized Congress for not conducting a caste census during its tenure. He pointed out that despite Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and Manmohan Singh's long terms in power, they never implemented the caste census but Congress now seeks credit for it.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reiterating the party's long-standing demand for a caste census and laying out three specific suggestions to be considered in the process.
"The Congress president had written to Prime Minister that a caste census is necessary to take place. He had requested that the national census be done as soon as possible too, which was supposed to happen in 2021, and in that caste census be done too, he had written on 16 April. We did not