Reiterating Congress’ demand for a caste census, senior party leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the day the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Dalits, and tribals learn about their actual population, the “country will change forever.”
“Modi ji flies in an aircraft worth Rs 12,000 crore and wears new clothes every day. He was elected using the word OBC (on the promise of acting in their interest), and when the time comes to give rights to the OBCs, he says there is no OBC and the poor are the only caste in India,” Gandhi said while addressing an election rally in Chhattisgarh’s Bemetara district.
“We will find out how many OBCs are there. Whether Narendra Modi carries out a caste census or not, the day the Congress comes to power again in Chhattisgarh, a caste survey will start here. The day our government comes to power in Delhi, the first signature will be on the (order directing) caste census,” he said adding that it will be a historic decision.
“The day the OBCs, Dalits and tribals of this country come to know about their actual population and true strength, this country will change forever. This will be the biggest revolutionary decision after Independence,” Gandhi added.
“Wherever we have a government, be it Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, or Himachal Pradesh, I told all the Chief Ministers that the Congress government will put into the bank accounts of farmers, labourers, mothers, and sisters the same amount of money that the BJP gives to billionaires and big contractors,” he further said.
