Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday asked Union Home Minister Amit Shah to provide logical reasons for raising questions over the caste-based survey report released by the Bihar government. Mr. Yadav said the State government had scientific data and the report was based on it. He said that Mr. Shah’s objections were based on assumptions and an indication of the BJP’s “frustration”.
Mr. Yadav was speaking on the first day of the Bihar Assembly’s winter session, when the Opposition BJP tried to corner the State government over alleged irregularities in the caste-based survey report.
On his first visit to Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district following the release of the report, Mr. Shah had on Sunday termed the report an eyewash, and alleged that, under pressure from RJD chief Lalu Prasad, Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) had been undercounted, and the Yadav and Muslim populations had been deliberately inflated.
