Madurai, May 1 -- Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) president, Thol Thirumavalavan on Thursday welcomed the central government's announcement that a caste enumeration exercise would be done along with the national census, but with no fixed date. He, however, said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is only doing "political drama" for the upcoming Bihar elections.

"We are welcoming the caste census but the Union cabinet didn't fix the date of taking the census. Usually every 10 years the Union government has to do this census. in 2021 because of Corona it was postponed. Maybe in 2031 they will do it but we don't know whether BJP will hold office or not that time. They have declared that they will do the caste census at the time of populati...