Senior BJP leader and Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday accused the Nitish Kumar government of not conducting a proper caste-based survey in the State. He also said the survey has “fake data”.
Mr. Prasad said there are media reports of undercounting of Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) in the survey. He said areas with large concentration of EBCs were deliberately omitted to project a lower figure. He added that despite being the head of the family, the survey team did not speak with him; instead, they took the information from the gatekeeper and left.
“When the talk of caste-based survey commenced, the BJP supported it strongly. It saw it as part of our commitment. However, the issue here is whether it was conducted rightly or wrongly. What kind of survey was done by the Kumar government? We are receiving several complaints about this survey,” Mr. Prasad said at the party office, accompanied by MLAs of Patna district including Nitin Navin, Arun Sinha, Nand Kishore Yadav, and Sanjeev Chaurasia.
