India, Dec. 4 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the Narendra Modi Government on Wednesday of openly betraying the country's Bahujans by having "no concrete framework, no time-bound plan, no discussion in Parliament and no dialogue with the public" on the caste census exercise to be undertaken. His criticism came after the Government's response in the Lok Sabha to his question on the next census and caste enumeration.

"In Parliament, I asked the Government a question about the caste census -- its response is shocking. No concrete framework, no time-bound plan, no discussion in Parliament and no dialogue with the public. There is not even any desire to learn from the strategies of successful caste surveys in other States," Rahul Gand...