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Congress President Mallikrajun Kharge urged PM Modi to adopt Telangana model for caste surveys, pick up 50% reservation cap, and apply Article 15 (5) for SC, STS and OBC in private education.
New Delhi:
Congress President Mallikrajun Kharge has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attract the Telangana model for caste survey, extract 50 percent cap for reservation and to implement Article 15 (5) immediately to provide reservation for SCS, STS and OBC in private educational institutions.
In a letter to PM Modi, Mr. Kharge also asked the Prime Minister to talk to all political parties soon on the issue of caste census.
“Conducting any practice such as caste census which does not give backward, oppressed and marginalized sections of our society to their rights and should not be considered divisive in any way,” Mr. Kharge said.
He said, “Our great nation and our big hearted people always come together whenever we need, as we have recently done after a cowardly terrorist attacks in Pahgam,” he said to PM Modi in his letter on 5 May.
Prime Minister on caste census @narendramodi My letter to Zee
I am sharing some parts of the letter, the entire letter is attached –
On 16 April 2023, I wrote a letter to you demanding a caste census by the Indian National Congress. It is a pity that I have any of that letter… pic.twitter.com/faez0jkafy
– Mallikarjun kharge (@kharge) May 6, 2025
The Congress believes that conducting a caste census in a broad way is absolutely necessary to ensure social and economic justice and status and equality of opportunity, as is mortgaged in the Preamble of our Constitution, said Mr. Kharge.
Sharing the letter of Mr. Kharge on X, Jeram Ramesh, in-charge of Congress General Secretary in-charge, said, “After the CWC meeting on May 2, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Ji wrote to the PM last night on the sudden and desperate you-turn of the caste to the caste census of the caste-Brutil Pahal is attacked.” “Kharge ji has given three very specific suggestions,” he said.
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