Congress’ Top Decision-Making Body Embraces the Idea of Conducting a Caste Survey

Congress’s Top Decision-Making Body Warms Up To Caste Survey Idea
New Delhi: At every election rally, Congress leaders from party chief Mallikarjun Kharge to Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been promising a state-wide caste survey if they come to power. The sudden fondness for caste survey is emerging as a key issue in both state and general elections expected in the next few months. Bihar took the lead in publishing its caste survey data. Rahul Gandhi made it an election issue and highlighted it as a major talking point in the Karnataka election. This drew a reaction from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which the Congress says strengthened the party’s resolve to work for a caste survey. Other parties in the newly formed Opposition alliance INDIA have also demanded caste survey. The Congress Working Committee has never formally endorsed caste survey, though the party’s stand has evolved over the years.