Hyderabad/New Delhi, Dec 14 :Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President and MP, A. Revanth Reddy on Monday demanded that the BJP led NDA government at the Centre should take up a caste-based census of Backward Classes (BCs) across the country.
Addressing the ‘BCs’ Jung Siren’ organised by BC Welfare Association of Telugu speaking states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Revanth Reddy said that the census proposal was originally mooted by the previous Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre but it could not be taken forward after Congress lost elections in 2014.
Instead of implementing the plan, the BJP Government at the Centre dropped the proposal by calling it impossible, the TPCC chief said.
Though the Telangana Rahstra Samithi (TRS) came to power in Telangana with the support of BCs, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao for not supporting the demand for a caste-based census of BCs, he slammed.
Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims that he belongs to the Backward Classes, his government at the Centre was doing injustice with the BCs, he said that the caste-based census would help in ascertaining the social, educational and economic backwardness of BCs.
“Since both PM Modi and CM KCR are not interested in the welfare of BCs, they are suppressing the demand for the caste-based census,” he alleged.
The TPCC Chief promised that the Congress party, if voted to power at the Centre and in Telangana in the next elections, would conduct a caste-based census for BCs.
He said that the Congress party would raise the issue in the Parliament besides supporting all the movements launched by different organisations for this cause(UNI)