New Delhi, May 1 -- Posters of Rahul Gandhi were put outside the AICC headquarters in the national capital on Thursday after the Centre announced that the forthcoming population census will include a caste census.

On April 30, Rahul Gandhi said that the party supported the government's decision to conduct the caste enumeration during the population census, but should specify a timeline.

Addressing a press conference, the Congress leader said that Telangana has provided a model for conducting caste census and it can provide a blueprint for the exercise at the national level.

He said the Congress has been demanding a caste census and the government had "suddenly after 11 years" taken this decision.

"We had said in the Parliament that we...