New Delhi, April 30 -- Leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Wednesday welcomed the Union Cabinet's decision to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming national census.

Addressing a press briefing on the Cabinet's decisions, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) had decided that caste enumeration would be part of the upcoming census.

Union Minister Chirag Paswan took to X to express his support for the move. "An important decision was taken in the national interest by approving the caste-based census in the Union Cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji today. I and my party had been demanding for a long time that a ca...