New Delhi, April 30 -- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday welcomed the Union Cabinet's decision to include caste in the upcoming census. He described it as a long-overdue step supported by the Congress party and its INDI alliance partners.

In a post on X, Kharge called the move a step towards social justice, but also questioned the government's seriousness due to the low budget allocated for the census.

"The Indian National Congress had continuously raised the demand for caste census, whose most vocal supporter was Rahul Gandhi. Today the Modi government has announced to conduct caste census along with the Census. This is the right step which we were demanding from the very first day," Kharge said.

"I raised this issue ...