Reiterating his name for a nationwide caste census, which he acknowledged earlier was a promise that the Congress would fulfil if voted again on the Centre, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday termed Bihar’s caste census an ‘X-ray’ for the nation that may make clear the true dwelling requirements of the poor.
“Have we ever questioned who the poor are? What number of are there and in what situation? Is it not essential to depend all these? The caste census carried out in Bihar revealed that 88 per cent of the poor inhabitants comes from Dalit, tribal, backward and minority communities. The figures from Bihar are only a small glimpse of the true image of the nation, we don’t even have an concept in what situation the poor inhabitants of the nation resides.,” Gandhi stated in a tweet.
“That’s the reason we’re going to take two historic steps – caste counting and financial mapping, primarily based on which we are going to uproot the reservation restrict of fifty per cent. This step will X-ray the nation and supply the proper reservation, rights and share to everybody,” the Congress MP acknowledged additional.
“This is not going to solely assist in making the proper insurance policies and plans for the poor however will even assist in rescuing them from the wrestle of schooling, incomes and medicines and connecting them to the mainstream of improvement. Due to this fact, get up, get up and lift your voice, caste counting is your proper and it’ll take you out of the darkness of difficulties and in direction of the sunshine,” he added.
“Rely is our slogan as a result of counting is the ‘first step to justice’,” he added.
Earlier, on Friday, Rahul stated his celebration will change the established order within the nation wherein a choose few billionaires have full management over wealth and sources, whereas 90 per cent of the inhabitants stays marginalised and sidelined.
He promised to create a particular Rs 5,000 crore devoted corpus to encourage entrepreneurship among the many youth coming from extraordinary household backgrounds in a bid to allow them to begin their very own companies.
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First Printed: Mar 09 2024 | 2:53 PM IST
