Intensifying his push for a nationwide caste census, Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of avoiding the issue out of fear that it would dismantle the BJP’s political strategy.
Speaking at a public event, Rahul Gandhi declared: "My aim is caste census. In Lok Sabha, in front of Modi ji, I told him that caste census would be conducted. And you know he has a habit of surrendering. Trump has said 11 times in public that he made Narendra Modi surrender. But Narendra Modi ji cannot utter a word because it is the truth."
Gandhi asserted that the Modi government is deliberately avoiding the implementation of a nationwide caste census, fearing that transparency in social data would undermine its caste-based political arithmetic.
"They will never get a genuine caste census done because the day they get it done, their politics will end," Gandhi said.
The Congress leader’s renewed emphasis on caste census comes as part of a broader opposition campaign aimed at demanding greater social justice, reservation reassessment, and equitable development policies based on current caste demographics.
Rahul Gandhi has consistently made the caste census a central plank of the INDIA bloc’s agenda, arguing that the government must "know how many people belong to which community, and how resources are being distributed."
