After the Solicitor General’s intervention in the Supreme Court that the Bihar caste survey case may have a “ramification”, Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on August 22 hit back at the BJP-led Centre, saying “their only objective is to disrupt the caste survey”.
The BJP, however, retorted that it had never backed out from supporting the survey, and the problem was that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar “tries to play both ends”.
On August 21, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta submitted before a Division Bench of the apex court comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and S.V.N. Bhatti that the issue involving the caste survey may have a ramification and the Union government should be allowed to file its response on legal issues without taking sides.
