A latest assembly between Rahul Gandhi, Nitish Kumar, and Tejashwi Yadav in Delhi appears to have made the Congress additionally heat as much as the caste census bogey. (File pic: News18)
BJP leaders say Rahul Gandhi’s demand originates from Hindi heartland allies just like the RJD, JD(U), and in addition the Samajwadi Party, which have been demanding a caste census in a bid to interrupt the Hindu consolidation of voters and produce again the ‘Mandal politics’ period
Ahead of the Karnataka elections, Rahul Gandhi has demanded a caste census after deliberations with different supporters of the transfer like Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav. The Congress had been towards such a research for practically 60 years until doing one in 2011. In Karnataka, former chief minister Siddaramaiah until 2018 didn’t launch a caste census report regardless of commissioning one.
The 2011 survey was achieved after deep divisions emerged within the UPA cupboard with a number of senior ministers like P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, and Pawan Kumar Bansal in addition to senior Congress MPs objecting to a caste census and a bunch of ministers (GoM) by no means reaching a conclusion over it. But the UPA authorities lastly succumbed to its regional allies, overturning its acknowledged coverage place of a long time of not doing a caste census. It took 5 years to finish the survey at a price of over Rs 4,000 crore nevertheless it was riddled with technical flaws and by no means grew to become public. Rahul Gandhi now needs this 2011 caste census to be made public.
The demand was made by the previous Congress chief in poll-bound Karnataka the place former CM Siddaramaiah had additionally kicked off a caste census in 2015 in his earlier time period as chief minister however by no means launched the info earlier than the 2018 meeting elections that 12 months, sensing it could be counterproductive to his get together’s probabilities. Siddaramamiah now claims the caste census train was solely accomplished later within the Congress-JD(S) authorities however then CM Kumaraswamy didn’t settle for the report.
Siddaramaiah has been demanding the caste census achieved underneath his authorities in Karnataka be made public however the Congress objects to the 4% Muslim reservation quota being distributed among the many Lingyats and Vokkaligas within the state by the BJP.
Between 1951 and 2011, Congress prime ministers like Jawaharlal Nehru had been towards a caste census whereas PMs like Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi had put the Mandal Commission report on the again burner. When a caste census was lastly began in 2011, there was a gross delay in beginning the enumeration work and gradual preparedness of many states.
The BJP authorities didn’t launch the caste knowledge as soon as it was prepared in 2016, citing technical flaws in it.
BJP leaders say Rahul Gandhi’s demand originates from Hindi heartland allies just like the RJD, JD(U), and in addition the Samajwadi Party, which have been demanding a caste census in a bid to interrupt the Hindu consolidation of voters and produce again the ‘Mandal politics’ period by wooing castes again into their fold. The BJP’s politics has been the alternative of that, combining all castes underneath one umbrella of welfarism by varied schemes, and Hindutva.
A latest assembly between Rahul Gandhi, Nitish Kumar, and Tejashwi Yadav in Delhi appears to have made the Congress additionally heat as much as the caste census bogey. Nitish, whereas with the NDA final 12 months, led a Bihar all-party delegation to the Prime Minister demanding a caste census, however the Centre had not agreed to it.
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