LUCKNOW, March 16 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Saturday reiterated her demand for a caste census and urged the Centre to take the required steps in this regard.
On the 91st birth anniversary of party founder Kanshi Ram, the BSP supremo wrote on X, "The population of the Bahujan community is more than 80 per cent in the state and the country. To guarantee their welfare, a provision of census was made in the Constitution by Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, and its pendency is not good governance."
Referring to herself as "iron lady", the BSP leader wrote, "The vast population of Uttar Pradesh has seen how the BSP under the leadership of 'iron lady' believes more in action than in words. It ensured the all-around developmen...