The Nair Service Society (NSS) has frowned at the Congress call to conduct a caste census.
NSS general secretary G. Sukumaran Nair said at Perunna on Tuesday that vote bank politics motivated the growing chorus for an updated caste census. Mr. Nair, however, stopped short of calling out any particular party or alliance.
According to him, governments are duty bound to take all those staying backward in terms of education, social status and employment to the mainstream irrespective of their caste and creed. “Caste-based reservation is a key driver of the savarna-avarna culture that cultivates rivalry between castes which enjoy the benefits of reservation and those who are not.’’
