By PTI
PATNA: Senior BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday asserted that his get together has at all times been in assist of a caste census, which has turn into a burning concern within the state, and rebutted the “dushprachaar” (misinformation) on a part of political rivals.
The former Bihar deputy chief minister got here out with a video and a sequence of tweets asserting that the BJP has all by means of remained in assist of the caste census demand though the Narendra Modi authorities on the Centre has expressed incapability to get it carried out due to “practicalities”.
Sushil Modi’s averment got here within the wake of the rivalry by Lalu Prasad’s RJD that the BJP has been against social justice and thus it had not agreed to caste census nationally and was detached in the direction of getting the identical carried out on a state degree regardless of being a accomplice within the Nitish Kumar authorities.
The former deputy CM identified that the BJP had voted within the favour of two resolutions handed by each homes of the legislature in Bihar in assist of a caste census and “a senior cabinet minister from our party, Janak Ram, was a part of the delegation led by the CM that had met PM Narendra Modi to press the demand last year”.
He additionally underscored that the BJP had equally backed the demand when it was raised in adjoining Jharkhand the place “our state president was part of the delegation formed to meet the PM”.
“We voted in favour of a resolution on caste census when it was passed in Odisha. When state-specific caste surveys were conducted in Telangana and Karnataka we did not oppose the same. Parliament’s records are proof that our late leader Gopinath Munde had strongly supported caste census when there was a debate on the issue in 2010, while the Congress-led UPA was in power,” Modi added.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has indicated {that a} state-specific survey will probably be carried out quickly after searching for inputs from totally different teams at an all-party assembly.
