Hyderabad, May 1 -- Following the Central government's announcement that they will also conduct a caste enumeration excercise with the national census, Telangana Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao said that this has been his demand of the opposition for a long time, and now even Prime Minister Narendra Modi has understood that the country "will not run in the name of Ram," and the government will have to work for the poor.

He added that the demand for caste census is a long standing one, with certain states doing their own caste census.

"The Narendra Modi government, the NDA govt decided in the cabinet meet that caste census will be done along with national census, but before this, I fought for 11 years for caste census, and make a separa...