Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S. Ramadoss has called upon the DMK Government to bring out measures to rectify the mistakes that he says it has committed in the implementation of social justice in the State.
Addressing a press conference at his Thailapuram residence on Monday, May 13, 2024, Dr. Ramadoss said the PMK has been continually spearheading the campaign on social justice. The party has been reiterating the importance of conducting a caste-wise census, to provide reservations based on that data, for the past 44 years. However, it is disappointing that the State government has not understood this social justice message, he said.
Though the DMK government had ideologically accepted the demand for a caste-wise census, it was shirking its responsibility by claiming that the Union Government was better placed, legally, to carry out the exercise. States such as Bihar, Karnataka, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh had already conducted a caste-wise census while the process was underway in Telangana. The Tamil Nadu government should avoid further delays in holding a caste-wise census he said.
