Lucknow, May 3 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Friday hit out the BJP and Congress for politicising the issue of caste enumeration. Owing to the anti-Bahujan character of both the parties, the OBC community is still backward, exploited and deprived, she claimed.

In a post on X, the BSP chief wrote that after saying no for a long time, the Centre has now decided to conduct the caste census along with national census and there is a race by BJP and Congress to take credit for this and prove themselves OBC friendly, whereas their anti-Bahujan character continues to deprive OBC communities of their due rights. "In any case, if the intentions and policies of the Congress and BJP were clean towards the Bahujan Samaj, then the...