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New Delhi, May 1 (PMI): Union Minister Kishan Reddy today expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the decision of the Union Cabinet to conduct a caste census as part of the regular census and added that the caste census would go down in history.
Addressing media conference, he said after the decision of the Union Government, the Opposition parties were opening the door to political dramas. “In the past, under the auspices of the Congress Party, conspiracies and machinations were made regarding the BC reservations. All Muslims were included in the BCs.
Since the country’s Independence, the Congress Party, which has divided people in the name of religion and created communal conflicts, had also conspired to break up society in the name of the castes. The Congress government is not the only one to show hypocritical love for SCs, STs and BCs, there are also many instances in history, where it has spewed venom whenever it gets the chance.
When Ramnath Kovind, an SC, and Draupadi Murmu, an ST, were declared as the presidential candidates, the Congress party had a history of opposing them and fielding its own candidates. After the Modi government submitted complete details in the Supreme Court to resolve the decades-pending Madiga reservation issue, the way was paved for SC classification,” he said.
He alleged the Congress party has a history of insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the name his from backward classes. The Congress party has been shedding crocodile tears for the BCs since its inception. The Congress has never worked for the uplift of the backward classes. The credit for giving legality to the National BC Commission in 2018 goes to the NDA government.
In 2019, it implemented 10% reservation (EWS) for economically backward upper castes. We are moving forward with sincerity with the slogan of ‘Sab Ka Saath, Sab Ka Vikas’ to ensure proper justice for all sections of society,” he said. Reddy claimed that Modi was credited with providing 33% reservation to the women and empowering them and giving them self-respect and added that Modi government was credited with abolishing barbaric policies like ‘triple talaq’ against Muslim women and providing rights and power to Muslim women.
“We are working to ensure that no section of society feels that they are not being cared for. The Caste census was conducted from 1881 to 1931. But after independence, the Congress Party-led central government decided that caste census should not be conducted. Accordingly, the caste census has not been conducted since 1951 till date. From the beginning, the Congress Party has been against the caste census. Senior Congress leaders like Nehru and Maulana Azad openly expressed their aversion to the caste census. Rajiv Gandhi opposed the report given by the Mandal Commission.
On September 6, 1990, Rajiv Gandhi spoke in Parliament saying that Muslims are educationally, socially and economically backward compared to the BCs in the country and they should be given a hand. He talked about the rights of Muslims aside and talked about the rights of the Muslims,” he said.
He said the then BJP leader Sushma Swaraj wrote a letter to the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the year 2010, stating that her party was in favour of the caste census and added that the Congress party ignored this issue and conducted the census in 2011. He said the BJP had been expressing full support for the caste census since the beginning, but the BJP’s idea was that it should not be a political tool but should be useful for the social progress of all sections.
“If a caste census is conducted in the country, this data will be useful in providing social and economic benefits to the poor. The Census data will be useful for the effective implementation of welfare schemes and reservations. This has shown the clear stance of our government. But, in 2011, the then Home Minister Chidambaram opposed the caste census along with the census. On behalf of the BJP, Amit Shah said on many occasions that a caste census will be conducted when the census is conducted. Based on the letter given by Sushma Swaraj earlier, as per our policy today we have decided to conduct caste census as part of the census.
Today, Congress and Pvt Ltd companies are trying for political gains. It is shameful that Rahul Gandhi is claiming this positive decision taken by the Modi government as his achievement. The BJP government is not taking decisions out of fear of Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party,” he added. (PMI)
