A Congress-led government will conduct a nation-wide caste census as part of the decadal census that was due in 2021, remove the cap of 50% on reservation through legislation and implement the women’s reservation law to provide 33% quota for women in Lok Sabha and Assemblies at the earliest, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) said in a resolution that was unanimously adopted on October 9.
Calling it a “historic resolution”, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said caste census was “a matter of ensuring justice and not politics” and asserted that the party-ruled States would be conducting caste surveys on the lines of Bihar.
“I think it [caste census] is a very progressive and powerful step for the emancipation of the poor people in our country,” Mr. Gandhi told reporters at a press conference at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters.
