Bengaluru, June 11 -- After the Karnataka government decided to carry out a re-enumeration exercise for the 2015 caste survey report, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at the Congress, accusing it of committing "injustice" against the backward classes.

Criticising the Congress high command's attempts to engage in politics over the issue of caste census and accusing them of diverting attention, BJP MLC N Ravikumar objected to the taxpayer money spent in crores for the 2015 survey if its data were to be rejected in the end.

Ravikumar said that Congress' suggestion to re-enumerate the data collected under the 2015 social and educational survey was a "slap" to the Siddaramaiah-led government, which originally commissioned and supported i...