New Delhi : BSP President Mayawati slammed BJP for ‘refusal’ of caste census on Friday expressed great concerns over Centre’s refusal of caste census of backward classes. She said, it exposed the BJP of using the community only for its electoral interests.
Her reaction came right after the central government said to Supreme Court that caste census are “administratively difficult and cumbersome.”
Mayawati in her tweet expressed a lot of grave concern, the refusal of central government on caste census of backward class by filing an affidavit in Supreme Court will expose politics of BJP. BSP supremo tweeted, “The categorical refusal of the Central government to conduct the caste census of the backward classes by filing an affidavit in the Hon’ble Supreme Court is a matter of grave concern which exposed the OBC politics of BJP’s electoral interests and also the difference in their words and deeds.”
She said that just like the SC/STs, the demand for conducting caste census of OBCs has gained momentum in the country. But the refusal of the Centre is going to hurt the community.
The Union Government told Supreme Court that the information gathered through caste census conducted in 2011 will not be usable for any official purposes now, on account of grave “inaccuracies” in its data. It is also against collecting any information on castes or backward classes, other than Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), during the upcoming population census in 2022.
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