Lucknow, May 4 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Congress, accusing it of indulging in "opportunistic politics" over the issue of caste-based
census. Taking to social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Mayawati mocked the Congress for organising a thanksgiving rally over the Centre's recent decision to conduct a caste census, suggesting that the grand old party was trying to take undue credit for the move.
"The Congress is trying to claim credit for the Centre's decision, but it conveniently forgets its own dark history of depriving Dalits and OBCs of their constitutional rights and reservations," she wrote. "This is one of the reasons it lost...