Citing the findings of the Bihar caste survey, leaders of the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on October 2 reiterated their demand for conducting a countrywide caste census to ensure “social justice” to the deprived classes.
In the run-up to the Lok Sabha election next year, parties belonging to the INDIA bloc have made the demand for a caste census and OBC outreach their most visible political strategy.
At the INDIA meeting in Mumbai, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim of being a champion of the the Other Backward Classes was one of the wrong perceptions that the bloc should unravel.
