Lucknow, March 16 -- Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati, on Saturday, made a renewed call for caste census, urging the government to take the required steps in this regard.
"Keeping the census pending is not at all good governance. The exercise of the census is directly linked to nation-building. Therefore, the government needs to be as cautious towards this responsibility as it is in conducting timely elections," the BSP supremo said.
In a three-page note posted on X, on Saturday, on the 91st birth anniversary of BSP Kanshi Ram, Mayawati said that such a census was essential for a new path and impetus to overall development and the government must not ignore it any longer.
She pointed out that a parliamentary committee on the issue ...