Patna, April 30 -- After the Union Cabinet decided to include caste enumeration in the national census, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav said that the approval over the decision is yet another example of how socialist ideas, once dismissed or ridiculed, are eventually adopted by mainstream political forces.

"What we socialists proposed 30 years ago--be it reservation, caste census, equality, fraternity, secularism--others take decades to follow. There is still a long way to go. But make no mistake--we will keep making these Sanghis dance to our agenda," Lalu Yadav said.

In a post on X, Lalu Yadav posted, "When I was national president of Janata Dal, the United Front government in 1996-97 had decided to conduct a caste census as part of the 2...