caste census
- India
UP BJP Minority wing to take caste census awareness to every household
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh BJP Minority Morcha on Wednesday, June 18, said the party will soon launch a state-wide campaign to ensure accurate dissemination of information on the upcoming caste-based census, especially within…
- India
Congress leader Pawan Khera questions Centre’s promise on caste census
New Delhi: Congress leader Pawan Khera on Tuesday raised fresh doubts over the Centre’s promise of conducting caste enumeration along with the population Census, starting March 1, 2027, asking why the official…
- India
Nitish thanks PM Modi for caste census
Karakat: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday profusely thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for agreeing to hold a caste census, demand for which he had been raising passionately. The JD(U) president…
- Opinions
Caste Census: Why decision for new enumeration taken after massacre of 26 persons in Pahalgam?
After the Centre’s sudden and what many feel mistimed announcement to hold the Caste Census the Bharatiya Janata Party is Struggling to come out with a fresh strategy in Karnataka, Telangana, and…
- Opinions
Caste system could help re-think reservation politics; new data might lead to newer avenues
The caste census in India has sparked a lengthy debate. People have different opinions about whether it will have good or bad effects. It could lead to both. Supporters believe the census…
- Opinions
Caste data: Gateway to identity politics?
The recent release of Karnataka’s Socio-Economic Educational Survey (SEES 2015) findings, popularised as the Caste Census 2015, has been drawing nationwide attention particularly owing to the timing of its release almost a…
- India
Cong chief writes to PM Modi, seeks all-party dialogue on caste census issue
New Delhi: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to have a dialogue with all political parties soon on the issue of the caste…
- Telangana
Bandi Sanjay slams Telangana govt over caste census
Hyderabad: Union minister of state for home affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Sunday, May 4 slammed the Telangana government for caste census and inclusion of Muslims in the survey. “Role model or…
- India
Congress asks state units to highlight ‘BJP opposition to caste census’
New Delhi: In a bid to ramp up pressure on the government over the caste census issue and amplify its social justice agenda, the Congress has asked its state units to highlight…
- India
Mayawati slams BJP-Congress over caste census
Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Friday accused the BJP and Congress of politicising the issue of caste enumeration, claiming their anti-Bahujan character continues to deprive OBC communities of their due rights. Reacting…
- India
Tejashwi says caste census is Modi Govt’s compulsion, not choice
Patna: The political war of words over the caste census continues to escalate in Bihar, with Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav calling it a decision made under…
- India
Centre announced caste census only due to public pressure: Kharge
Bengaluru: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge criticised the Union government on Thursday, saying that it has no “genuine interest” in conducting a population census. “However, due to growing public pressure, it has now…
- India
PM Modi ‘Master of headlines without deadlines’: Congress
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday attacked the government after its announcement of the decision to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the “master of…
- Hyderabad
Constitute Union cabinet committee on Caste Census: Telangana CM
Hyderabad: Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for announcing that the Caste Census would be taken up in the next population census, Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday, May 1 suggested…
- India
CWC meeting on Friday to discuss govt’s caste census move: Sources
New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee will meet on Friday to discuss the government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census, sources said. The Centre on Wednesday announced that caste…
