Centre Announces Caste Census, Rahul Gandhi Says Remove 50% Quota Cap

New Delhi:

Congress’s Rahul Gandhi stated immediately that the Centre’s resolution to membership caste census with subsequent yr’s inhabitants census is a welcome step although taken below strain. He provided to assist the Centre “design” a roadmap for the census, declaring that the caste survey executed by Telangana was fully totally different from the one by Bihar, although it was the primary. He additionally laid down a broad roadmap to realize social justice – outlining the following three steps which the Congress, he stated, will push for. 

Calling the caste census a “new paradigm of growth”, he stated, “It was our imaginative and prescient, we’re glad they’ve adopted it”.

His celebration, he stated, now needs to “transcend” and see what’s the “participation of 90 per cent folks”. 

“The 50 per cent cap on reservations is changing into an obstacle to the progress of our nation and to the progress of Backward Castes, Dalits and Adivasis and we wish this barrier to be eradicated,” he informed reporters this night.  

“We now have put sufficient strain on the federal government to get the caste census executed and we wish a date by when it’s executed and we wish to put strain on the federal government to see that the 50 per cent cap is destroyed,” he stated. 

“After that there’s a third factor — Article 15.5 which is reservation in personal academic establishments, which is already a legislation. We wish that legislation to be applied as quickly as potential,” he added. 

The BJP, although, has known as out the Congress claims – particularly the one which caste census was their long-standing demand.

Whereas making the announcement this morning after a cupboard assembly, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated the celebration at all times opposed a caste census and the class was by no means included in censuses since Independence. 

“Congress governments have at all times opposed a caste census. In 2010, the late Dr Manmohan Singh stated the matter of caste census needs to be thought of… a gaggle was fashioned (and) most political events beneficial it. However the Congress determined to conduct a survey…” he stated.