JD(U) council reiterates demand for caste census

PATNA: The national council meeting of the Janata Dalunited or JD(U) on Sunday reiterated its demand for the castebased census and endorsed all the decisions taken at the party’s national executive meeting held in New Delhi on July 31.

While talking to media persons, JD (U) general secretary KC Tyagi said that Munger MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh was now formally coronated as the national president of the party. The council also passed a resolution that the party chief would head the party’s parliamentary board in keeping with the party’s Constitution.

“It has also been decided that the party would contest assembly election in Uttar Prasesh and Manipur. The party would like honourable seat-sharing in UP and other states. In 2017, the party did not contest despite demand and that affected our expansion. The council also reiterated its demand for caste census, for which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had led an allparty delegation to the PM earlier this month,” he added, emphasising that JD(U) had remained the most reliable partner of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The council also passed a resolution demanding by that the Rohini Commission recommendations be made public. In 2017, the Centre had set up Justice Rohini Commission, which favoured sub-categorisation of reservation for other backward castes (OBCS) in the government sector by splitting 27% quota into different categories of OBC for equitable distribution of benefits among different sub-castes. After several extensions, it could submit its report, dividing 2633 OBC sub-castes in the central list into four subcategories