Hyderabad, Jan. 30 -- The Congress on Friday strongly criticised the BJP-led Central government, alleging that the proposed census exercise is "not a caste census but merely a population census," and accused it of deliberately sidelining Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and several other communities.
Addressing a press meet at Gandhi Bhavan, Rudra Santosh Kumar, General Secretary of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC), said the Centre had taken a "U-turn" on its commitment to a caste census by excluding any direct reference to caste in the census questionnaire.
He alleged that the gazette notification issued by the Central government on January 22, containing 33 questions, mentioned only SC, ST and "OTHER" categories in Question-...