Caste census

Rahul Gandhi's latest U-turn in the US over reservations and his recent ramblings on caste representation shows he has no concrete plan to elevate the state of SCs, STs, and the OBCs.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah hit out at Rahul Gandhi for raking up the politically motivated caste census issue during his US visit.

The Licchavi republic, which gave the world its first democracy, was weakened and destroyed due to power struggle, and preference for own faction over the nation.

The Telangana government scrapped the Dalit Bandhu scheme days after Rahul Gandhi ratcheted up caste rhetorics by caste profiling beauty contest winners.

The JNU students’ body has also claimed that the administration has agreed to drop the inquiries in a sexual harassment case

There are 39 members listed in the recent CWC composition, out of which at least 25 belong to the General category or Upper Caste including Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, P. Chidambaram, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi.

After Rahul Gandhi reiterated the demand for a caste census on Saturday, Union Minister Chirag Paswan expressed his support for the initiative.

After netizens, several BJP leaders also attacked Rahul Gandhi for claiming that no SC, ST or OBC has ever won the Miss India contest

Rahul Gandhi said, "...I checked the list of Miss India to see if there would be any Dalit or tribal woman in it, but there was no women from Dalit, tribal or OBC. Still the media talks about dance, music, cricket, Bollywood but does not talk about farmers and labourers,"

In the article, Yogendra Yadav argues that apart from asking about caste, the census will also seek details like availability of basic amenities like electricity, water, cooking gas, housing conditions etc. So, if it is about conducting a socio-economic survey and the objective is to uplift the people standing at the last rung, then there is no need to ask about people’s caste identity.