New Delhi, June 16 (UNI) Soon after the government issued a notification declaring the 16th Caste Census to begin from 2027, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday accused the opposition Congress party of always cheating and suppressing the rights of OBCs.
“The OBC community has always been betrayed by the Congress. If the Congress had genuine intent, it would have formed a new commission after scrapping the Kaka Kalelkar Commission… Instead, they dismissed the commission’s report and continued to rule…
“Later, when the Mandal Commission was constituted and the Supreme Court upheld its legality, the Congress worked to weaken the OBC Commission,” Union Minister Bhupender Yadav said at a press conference here.
While slamming the Opposition party for “suppressing OBC rights and caste census reports”, Minister Yadav gave credit to his party for taking various initiatives for the community including granting constitutional status to the OBC Commission and implementing welfare schemes.
He said, “It was the BJP government that granted reservation to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). Congress has never stood with the poor, OBCs, or SC/ST communities. Congress MP & LoP Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, calls Karnataka an ideal state — but the timing and internal contradictions of their stance show that social justice is merely a showpiece for Congress, not a genuine commitment. Misleading the OBC community has been Congress’s policy; delivering justice to them has never been their intent…”
Rather, he said, Congress always worked towards weakening the OBC Commission and delaying the implementation of the Mandal Commission report.
“We thank our PM for addressing the long-standing issue of reservations in admissions to central schools… Through his economic welfare schemes, crores of people have been lifted out of poverty,” said the senior BJP leader.
He also pointed out loopholes on the proposed census survey announced by the Congress-led Karnataka Government a few days ago, alleging that the Congress is using “social justice for electoral engineering rather than genuine commitment.”
In response to a reporter’s question about the Congress party’s demand to adopt the Telangana model for the census to gather socio-economic data of all castes, Yadav took a jab at the Opposition, remarking, “If that’s the case, then why are they not implementing the Telangana model in Karnataka, where they are in power?”
