LUCKNOW, May 1 -- BJP Backward Morcha's Uttar Pradesh president and minister of state (independent charge) for backward welfare, Narendra Kashyap, on Thursday criticised the Congress for not conducting a caste census during its decades-long rule, accusing it of betraying backward communities with unfulfilled promises.

"Congress ruled the country for 60 years but never showed the courage to carry out a caste census. It kept misleading the backward sections of society," Kashyap said while addressing the media in Lucknow.

Notably, the last caste-based enumeration was conducted during the 1931 census, and no such exercise has been undertaken since.

"In 2010, the Congress government gave an assurance in Parliament but never fulfilled it. In...