Lalu Yadav demands caste-based census 'Will figures get you any result?'
Lalu Yadav demands caste-based census 'Will figures get you any result?'
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Patna: Demand for the caste-based census is constantly gaining momentum. Now RJD (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav has supported the caste census. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has also supported the caste census along with Lalu Yadav's younger son Tejashwi Yadav.

Lalu Prasad Yadav tweeted in support of the caste census, 'If castes are not counted in the 2021 census, Dalits and minorities along with all the backward and most backward people of the country, except Bihar, can boycott the census.' The RJD supremo further wrote, 'If the census data does not benefit the majority population of the country, then what about the data on the animal census? Will you put it?'

The demand has increased not only in Bihar but also in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati had also supported the caste-based census. Akhilesh and Mayawati had said that caste-based census data should be released to the central government. His party, an ally of the government at the Centre, had even talked about a separate census of OBC, which Mayawati had also supported.

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