Rajasthan to conduct caste-based census like Bihar, CM Ashok Gehlot broadcasts
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday has introduced that the state will conduct a caste-based census like achieved in Bihar. His assertion got here whereas speaking to the media after a state social gathering assembly in Jaipur.
Speaking to the media, the Rajasthan CM mentioned, “Congress chief Rahul Gandhi made the caste census system within the Raipur session of Congress, and we’ll do it right here on the premise of the identical. Rajasthan authorities may also conduct a caste census like Bihar. We are going to take the idea that there ought to be participation of the folks as per their inhabitants. Directions might be given to conducting caste-based census on the strains of Bihar.”
Asserting the significance of a Caste-based census, Gehlot mentioned, “After we discuss social safety, it may be applied solely once we know what the state of affairs is caste-wise. There are totally different castes dwelling within the nation who do totally different jobs, once we understand how a lot inhabitants every caste has, then we will make particular schemes for them.”
Earlier on 2 October, the report of the caste-based survey performed in Bihar was launched by the Nitish Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan authorities. After the census was launched, PM Modi mentioned that the opposition social gathering has performed with the feelings of the poor and divided the nation on caste strains for six a long time — a “sin” which it’s committing now as properly.
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Earlier, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi whereas addressing a rally in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh’s Shajapur district additionally mentioned that if his social gathering got here to energy on the Centre, it will conduct a caste-based census to profit all sections of society, significantly Different Backward Lessons (OBCs) within the nation.
Earlier in Chhattisgarh, Congress Basic Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday asserted if Congress is re-elected to energy within the state, a caste census might be performed within the state, just like the one carried out in Bihar.
“I announce that if Congress repeats authorities in Chhattisgarh, then like Bihar, we may also maintain caste census within the state,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra mentioned at a public occasion in poll-bound Chhattisgarh’s Kanker.
The Bihar authorities launched caste survey information exhibiting that the Different Backward Class (OBC) and Extraordinarily Backward Class (EBC) collectively account for 63 per cent of the state’s inhabitants.
(With inputs from ANI)
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Up to date: 07 Oct 2023, 06:27 AM IST
