Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Anand Sharma, in a letter to party president Mallikarjun Kharge, has questioned the party’s poll promise to hold a nationwide caste census, and said it could be construed as contradicting the position taken by late Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
Ms. Sharma said the caste census cannot be a panacea nor a solution to unemployment and inequalities in society, and held that “the Congress has never engaged in nor endorsed identity politics”.
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