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Congress To Amplify Pressure On BJP Over Caste Census, Social Justice Agenda

The Congress party will be working to highlight BJP and Modi라이브 바카라 rejection of the caste survey in the past and Gandhi's sustained efforts for it, PTI reported.

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The opposition Congress party will mount pressure to amplify the social justice agenda on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party after the latter라이브 바카라 announcement of including caste enumerations in the upcoming population census.

The Congress party will be working to highlight BJP and Modi라이브 바카라 rejection of the caste survey in the past and Gandhi's sustained efforts for it, PTI reported.

After the Congress Working Committee meeting, which was held on Friday, Congress general secretary K C Venugopal announced to all Pradesh Congress Committee presidents and Congress Legislature Party leaders through a circular, that demands should be made to conduct caste census without delay and implementation of Article 15(5). The article concerns SCs, STs and OBCs in private educational institutions.

The Congress workers will be raising the demands during the upcoming 'Samvidhan Bachao Rallies.’

The circular said that all state units "expose the BJP's anti-Bahujan ideology, its resistance to caste enumeration, and its efforts to suppress social justice."

In addition to the rallies, the house-to-house campaigns to be held till May 30, the state Congress workers are asked to schedule 'chaupal meetings' which should involve social and civil activists, lawyers, Bahujan communities amongst others. The workers are also directed to underline Gandhi라이브 바카라 leadership role and his consistent demands that have brought caste census to materialize.

"These efforts must reflect a unified communication strategy that brings clarity, conviction, and high visibility to our campaign for social justice. PCCs are requested to treat this campaign with top priority and submit weekly reports on the progress of each action point to the AICC," the circular dated May 3 said. 

The CWC also called for a transparent, time-bound process that included immediate Parliamentary debate and budgetary allocation for the census. Furthermore, a participatory and inclusive manner of  designing the questionnaire, enumeration, classification and publication of data of the caste census.

"As you are aware, after sustained and principled pressure from the Congress, the Modi government, which had long ridiculed, delayed, and dismissed the demand, has now been compelled to accept the genuine and democratic call for a caste-wise census," Venugopal said, as per PTI.

After government's announcement to add caste enumeration to the population census, Gandhi said he 'Welcomes' caste census and said that the BJP adopted congress' vision.

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