Hyderabad, Feb. 9 -- Questioning the Congress government's Caste Census results in Telangana seems to have backfired for the main opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). While the BRS has questioned the results, which put the Backward Class (BC) population (excluding Muslims) at about 46%, the party is also now facing questions over the Samagraha Kutumba (Intensive Household) Survey which was done in 2014 during the time of ex-chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and was never released.

The BRS has in the past also faced questions as to why it never released the Intensive Household Survey data, which it had used to formulate social welfare schemes. But since it was in power for two terms, it managed to never put the information out....