Demands for caste census, eradicating of reservation cap: Opposition’s ‘Brahmastra’ in direction of BJP in 2024?

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The opposition occasions are however to company up an alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, nevertheless their unanimous requires for a caste census and the eradicating of reservation cap might probably be a binding problem and hand them what a chunk of leaders feels the “Brahmastra” to counter the BJP and its Hindutva plank.

The issues with caste census and reservation not solely put all opposition occasions on the equivalent internet web page nevertheless leaders actually really feel it may also help them win once more many backward classes who’ve veered in course of the BJP throughout the newest earlier.

At a DMK-convened conference, RJD chief and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav summed it up for opposition occasions when he had talked about that the simplest approach to beat the BJP’s politics of “polarisation” was by the use of social justice-based politics.

This system has been adopted by the Congress with rather a lot enthusiasm with Rahul Gandhi making an aggressive pitch for a caste-based census and the eradicating of a 50 per cent cap on reservation in his newest speech in Karnataka’s Kolar, in a bid to indicate the tables on the BJP that had been gunning for him over his 2019 “Modi surname” remarks alleging that he insulted OBCs.

The BJP has hit once more at Gandhi for his remarks, alleging that he is being “disingenuous” collectively together with his declare on the issue of social justice when the erstwhile Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities in Karnataka did nothing to deal with long-pending requires of Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

ALSO READ | Release caste census data, take away quota cap, Rahul tells Modi govt

The Opposition has spoken with unanimity on frequent factors akin to inflation and rising employment nevertheless lacked cohesiveness on specific factors similar to the Adani matter.

However, with the issues of caste-based census and eradicating of reservation cap, opposition occasions have found an arrow with which they are going to hit numerous targets at one go — it forges instantaneous unity throughout the opposition ranks, locations the BJP on the once more foot because it’s however to spell out its stance on them categorically, and prepares a counter for the Hindutva push anticipated nearer to the polls.

With the Congress aggressively taking on the issue, it is susceptible to endear the social gathering to regional outfits which have till now been circumspect of the grand outdated social gathering fearing that it might play the “big brother” by superseding their agenda with issues with its private.

Asked regarding the Congress’ strong pitch, Congress frequent secretary Jairam Ramesh knowledgeable PTI, “The demand for a caste-based census was articulated forcefully by many civil society groups to Rahul Gandhi during Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress is following through on that demand.”

A socio-economic caste census was carried out by the highest of 2012 masking some 25 crore households nevertheless the data could not be revealed for various causes, he recognized.

An occasion of how the issue of caste-based census might probably be the glue for the Opposition unity is how even the Aam Aadmi Party which does not see eye-to-eye with the Congress on most factors has joined the caste-based census chorus.

The JD(U) and the RJD, which can be part of the ruling ‘Mahagathbandhan’ alliance in Bihar, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have moreover been vociferously demanding caste-based census for a really very long time.

The caste census and the eradicating of the cap on reservation are moreover susceptible to place the BJP in a quandary and test its private outreach to the backward classes.

The BJP unit in Bihar had supported a choice at an all-party meeting convened by Nitish Kumar and later a unanimous determination was handed throughout the Bihar Assembly on caste census.

However, the BJP’s central administration is however to reply the demand for a socio-economic and caste census.

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal talked about the “doublespeak” of the BJP is obvious from its “ambivalent position” on the Opposition’s demand for publishing the figures of the caste-based census of 2011. “It (BJP) seeks the votes of the forward classes while it engages in doublespeak on backward classes,” he alleged.

Sibal added that merely being on the equivalent internet web page on this problem was not adequate and that the Opposition unity requires far more than this.

WEB SCRAWL | Can Bihar’s caste survey present a headache for PM Modi?

RJD MP Manoj Jha, one different distinguished voice throughout the Opposition ranks, moreover underlined the importance of the caste-based census problem. “We have been demanding caste-based census, it started in 2010-11 when Lalu ji, Sharad ji and Mulayam ji raised this question and the then UPA government agreed to it. Subsequently, 2014 heralded (Narendra) Modi ji’s victory and myself and other MPs raised the question as to what happened to the data and we were told that the data got corrupted. Don’t know whether the corruption was of the data or somewhere else,” Jha knowledgeable PTI.

“The Kolar speech of Rahul ji provided a further impetus to the demand made by several state governments and leaders from diverse political parties. It is important to see that it is not a political issue, it involves the deepening of democracy, who would not want deepening of democracy, it involves psychological, social and political empowerment of communities, it involves ensuring representation in accordance with their population,” the RJD chief talked about.

Having talked about that, you will want to collectively enhance this problem and inform the prime minister and his social gathering that politics cannot be rhetorical, one has to return again all the way in which right down to the underside and try what are the details, he talked about.

“The critical issue is that in the governance structure and bureaucracy, the representation of SCs, STs and OBCs is negligible. Can a democracy live with such anomalies that is our question and that is how we will take it up forward,” he asserted.

Political commentator Sanjay Jha, who was as quickly as a spokesperson for the Congress social gathering, alleged that India has been devastated by a double whammy — unemployment catastrophe and extreme inequality — beneath the current authorities.

“The biggest sufferers are those from underprivileged communities and the backward classes. No amount or number of social welfare programmes being propagated by the BJP can neutralize the deprivation and the economic destitution of millions of Indians. Therefore the Opposition is completely justified in focusing on social justice as its key political message,” he knowledgeable PTI.

“That’s why a nervous BJP is prevaricating on the caste census, as at core, it remains an upper caste party. Further, it is a party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich,” he claimed.

A frontrunner on state of affairs of anonymity talked about that with the BJP seemingly to utilize its Hindutva plank to consolidate its vote monetary establishment, the requires for a caste-based census and the eradicating of reservation cap might probably be the Opposition’s “Brahmastra” ahead of the 2024 elections.

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NEW DELHI: The opposition occasions are however to company up an alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, nevertheless their unanimous requires for a caste census and the eradicating of reservation cap might probably be a binding problem and hand them what a chunk of leaders feels the “Brahmastra” to counter the BJP and its Hindutva plank.

The issues with caste census and reservation not solely put all opposition occasions on the equivalent internet web page nevertheless leaders actually really feel it may also help them win once more many backward classes who’ve veered in course of the BJP throughout the newest earlier.

At a DMK-convened conference, RJD chief and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav summed it up for opposition occasions when he had talked about that the simplest approach to beat the BJP’s politics of “polarisation” was by the use of social justice-based politics.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

This system has been adopted by the Congress with rather a lot enthusiasm with Rahul Gandhi making an aggressive pitch for a caste-based census and the eradicating of a 50 per cent cap on reservation in his newest speech in Karnataka’s Kolar, in a bid to indicate the tables on the BJP that had been gunning for him over his 2019 “Modi surname” remarks alleging that he insulted OBCs.

The BJP has hit once more at Gandhi for his remarks, alleging that he is being “disingenuous” collectively together with his declare on the issue of social justice when the erstwhile Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities in Karnataka did nothing to deal with long-pending requires of Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

ALSO READ | Release caste census data, take away quota cap, Rahul tells Modi govt

The Opposition has spoken with unanimity on frequent factors akin to inflation and rising employment nevertheless lacked cohesiveness on specific factors similar to the Adani matter.

However, with the issues of caste-based census and eradicating of reservation cap, opposition occasions have found an arrow with which they are going to hit numerous targets at one go — it forges instantaneous unity throughout the opposition ranks, locations the BJP on the once more foot because it’s however to spell out its stance on them categorically, and prepares a counter for the Hindutva push anticipated nearer to the polls.

With the Congress aggressively taking on the issue, it is susceptible to endear the social gathering to regional outfits which have till now been circumspect of the grand outdated social gathering fearing that it might play the “big brother” by superseding their agenda with issues with its private.

Asked regarding the Congress’ strong pitch, Congress frequent secretary Jairam Ramesh knowledgeable PTI, “The demand for a caste-based census was articulated forcefully by many civil society groups to Rahul Gandhi during Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress is following through on that demand.”

A socio-economic caste census was carried out by the highest of 2012 masking some 25 crore households nevertheless the data could not be revealed for various causes, he recognized.

An occasion of how the issue of caste-based census might probably be the glue for the Opposition unity is how even the Aam Aadmi Party which does not see eye-to-eye with the Congress on most factors has joined the caste-based census chorus.

The JD(U) and the RJD, which can be part of the ruling ‘Mahagathbandhan’ alliance in Bihar, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have moreover been vociferously demanding caste-based census for a really very long time.

The caste census and the eradicating of the cap on reservation are moreover susceptible to place the BJP in a quandary and test its private outreach to the backward classes.

The BJP unit in Bihar had supported a choice at an all-party meeting convened by Nitish Kumar and later a unanimous determination was handed throughout the Bihar Assembly on caste census.

However, the BJP’s central administration is however to reply the demand for a socio-economic and caste census.

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal talked about the “doublespeak” of the BJP is obvious from its “ambivalent position” on the Opposition’s demand for publishing the figures of the caste-based census of 2011. “It (BJP) seeks the votes of the forward classes while it engages in doublespeak on backward classes,” he alleged.

Sibal added that merely being on the equivalent internet web page on this problem was not adequate and that the Opposition unity requires far more than this.

WEB SCRAWL | Can Bihar’s caste survey present a headache for PM Modi?

RJD MP Manoj Jha, one different distinguished voice throughout the Opposition ranks, moreover underlined the importance of the caste-based census problem. “We have been demanding caste-based census, it started in 2010-11 when Lalu ji, Sharad ji and Mulayam ji raised this question and the then UPA government agreed to it. Subsequently, 2014 heralded (Narendra) Modi ji’s victory and myself and other MPs raised the question as to what happened to the data and we were told that the data got corrupted. Don’t know whether the corruption was of the data or somewhere else,” Jha knowledgeable PTI.

“The Kolar speech of Rahul ji provided a further impetus to the demand made by several state governments and leaders from diverse political parties. It is important to see that it is not a political issue, it involves the deepening of democracy, who would not want deepening of democracy, it involves psychological, social and political empowerment of communities, it involves ensuring representation in accordance with their population,” the RJD chief talked about.

Having talked about that, you will want to collectively enhance this problem and inform the prime minister and his social gathering that politics cannot be rhetorical, one has to return again all the way in which right down to the underside and try what are the details, he talked about.

“The critical issue is that in the governance structure and bureaucracy, the representation of SCs, STs and OBCs is negligible. Can a democracy live with such anomalies that is our question and that is how we will take it up forward,” he asserted.

Political commentator Sanjay Jha, who was as quickly as a spokesperson for the Congress social gathering, alleged that India has been devastated by a double whammy — unemployment catastrophe and extreme inequality — beneath the current authorities.

“The biggest sufferers are those from underprivileged communities and the backward classes. No amount or number of social welfare programmes being propagated by the BJP can neutralize the deprivation and the economic destitution of millions of Indians. Therefore the Opposition is completely justified in focusing on social justice as its key political message,” he knowledgeable PTI.

“That’s why a nervous BJP is prevaricating on the caste census, as at core, it remains an upper caste party. Further, it is a party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich,” he claimed.

A frontrunner on state of affairs of anonymity talked about that with the BJP seemingly to utilize its Hindutva plank to consolidate its vote monetary establishment, the requires for a caste-based census and the eradicating of reservation cap might probably be the Opposition’s “Brahmastra” ahead of the 2024 elections.

READ MORE:

Congress ensures caste survey, OBCs ministry

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar says caste census useful