Hyderabad, May 17 -- After the Centre's sudden and what many feel mistimed announcement to hold the Caste Census the Bharatiya Janata Party is Struggling to come out with a fresh strategy in Karnataka, Telangana, and Bihar which had already undertaken this exercise by spending hundreds of crores of rupees.

In the two Congress-ruled states of South India, the saffron party had criticized the Caste Census on the plea that it had overlooked one caste or the other.

In the poll-bound Bihar which had already accomplished this survey in 2023 amidst stiff opposition from the Narendra Modi government the anxious BJP has inadvertently exposed its electoral weakness.

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