States »EasPosted at: Jul 30 2021 7:52PM

Nitish assures to write to PM & also to explore legal options for caste based census

Patna, Jul 30 (UNI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today assured the opposition that apart from writing a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for caste based census he would also explore
the legal options for it.
While interacting with the leader of opposition Tejasvi Prasad Yadav and other opposition leaders
in his assembly chamber, Mr Kumar said, he was in support of caste based census and would
request the Prime Minister through letter to reconsider the issue.
Later Mr Yadav told news persons that he had requested the chief minister to take up the issue
before the centre and also suggested him to seek appointment from the Prime Minister to take a delegation to meet the latter on the issue.
Mr Yadav said he suggested the chief minister to conduct the caste based census at its own expenditure on the pattern of Karnataka in case the centre did not agree for it. To this the chief
minister assured to explore legal options in this connection .
The leader of the opposition said that the backward and extremely backwards should be included
in the census only then it would be easy to make budgetary provisions for the class.
Besides Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, several leaders of the ruling JD( U) have issued statements
in support of caste based census on several occasions.
Apart from this Bihar legislature on February 18, 2019 and Bihar assembly on February 27, 2020
had unanimously passed a resolution for conducting caste based census.
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