‘No Dalit, Tribal Or OBC Women In Miss India List’: Rahul Gandhi’s Fresh Caste Census Pitch | WATCH

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday made a contemporary pitch for the Opposition INDIA bloc’s demand for a nationwide caste census, putting forward that there have been no Miss India winners from the Dalit, Tribal or OBC communities.

“I checked the checklist of Miss India to appear if there can be any Dalit or tribal female in it, alternatively there became no adult adult females from Dalit, tribal or OBC. Nevertheless, the media talks about dance, tune, cricket, Bollywood alternatively wouldn't speak about about farmers and labourers,” the Rae Bareli MP acknowledged.

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90 share sitting out of equipment

Addressing the ‘Samvidhan Samman Sammelan’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, Rahul Gandhi reiterated his demand for a pan-India caste-based census, claiming that 90 share of the nation’s populace are sitting out of the equipment and the step desires to be taken of their pastime.

“90 per cent humans are sitting out of the equipment. They have got skill, knowing alternatively no connections (with the equipment). The cause is, we have raised the demand for a caste census,” Gandhi, the Chief of Opposition (LOP) in the Lok Sabha, acknowledged, adding that the caste census is the groundwork and a equipment for policy making for the Congress.

The Gandhi scion acknowledged that there may safely be a should determine the numbers of a sequence of sections of the society before steps are taken to be specific their participation in the u . s . a .’s democratic manner and progress.

“For the Congress, the caste census is the groundwork of policy making. Or not it truly is a equipment for policy making. We're worthy to't make strategies in the valuable job of India with out a caste census. Clone of our Charter, which is a manual in a frame of intellect and it as a depend of valuable job is miles being attacked every single day, a caste census, a socio-financial survey, an institutional survey should be our second manual,” Rahul Gandhi acknowledged.

“We prefer the archives. How many Dalits, OBC (Other Backward Classes), tribals, adult adult females, minorities, uncomplicated caste humans are there. We're seeking for to produce policy cover to the Charter thru this demand for a caste census,” he introduced.

Charter meant for all

The Congress leader confused that the Charter is most principally not easiest for the ten share of the u . s . a .’s populace, alternatively for all its electorate.

“The Charter is blanketed by negative humans, labourers, tribals and not (industrialist Gautam) Adani. If 90 share humans haven't got participatory rights, the Charter can't be worthy to be blanketed. Our intention is to produce policy cover to the Charter. This (the Charter) is a holding existing policy cover to for the negative, farmers and labourers. With out it, the can be as it was once during the past in the instances of kings and emperors, who did one thing they desired,” he acknowledged.

‘PM seeking for to replica erstwhile kings’

Rahul Gandhi also launched a scathing attack on his arch nemesis Narendra Modi, accusing the Better Minister of seeking for to replica the mannerisms and approaches of erstwhile kings and emperors.

“You (Modi) don't neglect about yourself non-organic. You don't neglect about yourself connected with the god. True after the (Lok Sabha) election, you valuable to bow down before the Charter. This became not completed by us alternatively by humans,” he acknowledged.

BJP is my ‘guru’

Hitting out at PM Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Gandhi acknowledged ever thinking in regards to the valuable job that he joined politics in 2004, he has been “troubled and disturbed” by the leaders of the saffron birthday celebration.

“I don't neglect about them (BJP leaders) as my guru, humans who taught me what not to do. That is an ideological wrestle (with the BJP) and it as a depend of valuable job is going to continue,” he introduced.

“No longer like Better Minister Modi, I do my work taking under consideration it as my responsibility and not for others to retain in intellect me. Or not it truly is Narendra Modi’s way of doing his work so that he is remembered. My wondering is that 90 share of the u . s . a .’s electrical vigour is utilised in making it,” the Congress leader acknowledged.

(With PTI inputs)