Bengaluru, June 12 -- Hitting out at the opposition parties for their alleged contrasting and vacillating stand over the caste census, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday said that the reason for redoing the caste census was "social justice, not politics."

He also expressed his condolences to the families of the victims in the Ahmedabad air crash.

"The reason why we are redoing the caste census is social justice, not politics. The opposition parties, who criticised the previous caste census, are opposing the new caste census. Let them take a stand to support the original caste census if they have an issue with the new one," the Congress leader said while speaking to reporters after the Cabinet meeting.

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