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Congress President Malikarjun Kharge supports caste data in the census.
He emphasizes that the announcement requires a budget and action.
Kharge said that currently census funding is 1.575 crores.
New Delhi:
Congress President Mallikrajun Kharge on Wednesday welcomed the Center’s decision to include caste-based data in the upcoming National Census, but insisted that only one announcement is not enough to start the practice without any effort.
Talking to NDTV, Mr. Kharge, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, said: “This is a good decision. For this decision, we have been waiting for a long time. I wrote a letter to remind him (government) before and recently …” I wrote a letter to remind him (government). “
He said: “This is a good decision, but just to tell and keep it calm does not work.
In a post on the first X, Mr. Kharge said, “This year’s budget has an allocation of only 1.575 crores for the census, so it is a valid question of how and when it will complete it”. “The Congress party demands that the Modi government be provided as soon as possible, and start the work of census and caste census with full transparency,” he said.
The Indian National Congress had constantly raised the demand for caste census, the most vocal advocate of which Shri @RahulGandhi are. Today the Modi government has announced a caste census with Census. This is the right step that we were demanding from day one.
I picked it up in Parliament several times and Prime Minister…
– Mallikarjun kharge (@kharge) 30 April, 2025
In a major decision, the central government has decided to include Caste -writing Exercise in a “transparent” manner in the upcoming census.
The final nationwide census was completed in 2011 and the next Decadal began in April 1, 2020, but the Kovid epidemic delayed.
Addressing the first reporters during the day, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that caste census will empower the marginalized sections and help them to become self -sufficient. “It shows that our government is committed to the values and interests of our society and the country, such as in the past when our government introduced 10 percent reservation for the economically weaker sections of the society without causing tension in any part of the society,” he said.
He also said that census comes under the purview of the center, but in a clear context of some states – Karnataka, Telangana and Bihar – has calculated caste in the name of surveys for “political reasons”.
Castes were not calculated in all census after independence – this is another major example of the double standards and hypocrisy of the Congress party. The Congress only did showy politics on the work that was postponed for decades.
In 2010, the then PM Dr. Manmohan Singh considered the caste census in the Lok Sabha…
– Ashwini Vaishnav (@ashwinivaishnaw) 30 April, 2025
Later in a post on X, Mr. Vaishnav said: “Ensuring social justice, the thoughtful Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a historic step by approving the caste census at the Union Cabinet meeting,” the minister said on X on X on X.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi also welcomed the “sudden” decision of the Center to include caste calculations in the next census following “11 years of protest”, but said it should be given a time for its implementation.
