New Delhi, April 30, 2025 (ANI): While speaking on the Cabinet decision on Caste Census, Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said that the party ‘completely support’ it but also wants a timeline. He said, “We had said in the Parliament that we will make Caste Census happen. We had also said that we would scrap the 50% cap, the artificial wall that is in place. Narendra Modi used to say that there are just 4 cases. Don't know what happened but suddenly after 11 years, Caste Census has been announced. We completely support it but we want a timeline. We want to know that by when this will happen. This is the first step. Telangana has become a model in Caste Census and it can become a blueprint. We offer our support to the Govt in designing the Caste Census...There are two examples - Bihar's and Telangana's and there is a vast difference between the two...”
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00:00caste census we have been fighting now for some time government has opposed for some
00:07reason we don't understand what that reason is they have suddenly decided to do it we
00:12welcome that we are happy that they have done the caste census telangana is a model state
00:21for the caste census there are two caste censuses in front of us one is telangana the other
00:26is bihar they are completely different caste censuses the telangana caste census the questions
00:33have been developed by a process of consultation not a closed process open closed process by
00:40asking the stakeholders what are the type of questions and it has been a very detailed
00:44very granular exercise we would like the national census to follow some of the ideas of the telangana
00:49census and we are more than happy to help the government develop the national census on
00:57similar lines we have had two other issues that we have discussed which are also central which
01:04is the fifty percent cap on reservations now this is becoming an impediment this is becoming
01:10an impediment to development to progress of our country and to the progress of backward
01:16castes dalits and adivasis and we want this fifty percent barrier to be eliminated and broken
01:22we have stated that we have achieved we have put enough pressure on the government to get
01:27the caste census done we want to date by when it is done we are going to put pressure on
01:32the government to make sure that fifty percent cap is destroyed and after that there is a
01:37third thing which is the article fifteen five which is reservation in private educational
01:43institutions it is already a law we want that law to be implemented as soon as possible so
01:48that is broadly the structure we see the caste census as a new paradigm of development and
01:55we want to go beyond the caste census we want to understand what is the participation of ninety
02:03percent of our population in the power structure of our country where are they participating effectively
02:09and where are they not participating and we want to give them participation and access to
02:15power so we are absolutely convinced in the congress party that the caste census is a first
02:21step of a completely new development paradigm in the country and we are going to push this
02:26paradigm through one way or the other it doesn't matter what the bjp thinks we have shown that
02:31we can pressure the bjp into doing the caste census we are going to show you that we are going
02:35to pressure the bjp into doing fifteen five and also removing the fifty percent cap i think
02:41every every congress member every congress worker every single person who has fought for the
02:49caste census and there are millions of people activists from the backward communities dalits
02:55adivasis i am very proud of what you have done this would not be possible without the
02:59effort without the hard work that you have done it has been a sustained campaign that
03:04we have run and i am very proud of every single person who has helped us in this campaign thank
03:09you