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Rahul Gandhi welcomed the Centre’s choice to incorporate caste census within the subsequent inhabitants depend, proposing a roadmap for social justice. He criticised the 50% reservation cap and urged its removing
New Delhi:
Congress’s Rahul Gandhi stated right now that the Centre’s choice to membership caste census with subsequent yr’s inhabitants census is a welcome step although taken below stress. He provided to assist the Centre “design” a roadmap for the census, declaring that the caste survey executed by Telangana was utterly 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 subsequent 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 social gathering, he stated, now needs to “transcend” and see what’s the “participation of 90 per cent individuals”.
“The 50 per cent cap on reservations is turning into an obstacle to the progress of our nation and to the progress of Backward Castes, Dalits and Adivasis and we would like this barrier to be eradicated,” he informed reporters this night.
“We’ve got put sufficient stress on the federal government to get the caste census executed and we would like a date by when it’s executed and we need to put stress 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 instructional establishments, which is already a legislation. We would like that legislation to be applied as quickly as attainable,” 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 social gathering 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 ought to be thought of… a gaggle was shaped (and) most political events really helpful it. However the Congress determined to conduct a survey…” he stated.