BSP chief Mayawati took a veiled dig at Rahul Gandhi, saying a senior leader of the Congress is vociferously seeking a caste-based census now but the Congress governments in the past did not accept the demand of OBCs to provide reservation to them on the lines of SCs and STs.
She also criticised the NDA government at the Centre for not giving a separate quota for SCs, STs and OBCs in the Women's Reservation Bill, which was recently passed in Parliament.
Addressing an election rally at Peddapalli in Telangana on Thursday, Ms. Mayawati recalled that those from the most backward classes had sought reservation benefits such as SCs and STs, from the Congress, which was in power for a long period after India gained Independence.
