‘Caste census within 3 months if voted to power’
AGRA : Samajwadi Party national Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday promised a caste census within three months if his Samajwadi Party was voted to power in Uttar Pradesh, giving people their rights according to their share in the population.
He alleged that the income tax department, Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were more of organizational cells for the Bharatiya Janata Party and got active in states going for elections. Akhilesh was in Mainpuri on Tuesday to begin the eighth phase of his Vijay Yatra and addressed a public meeting on Christian College ground before flagging off the yatra for Etah, where another meet was scheduled.
“We are committed to castebased census and will get it done within three months of coming to power in UP so that the deserving can get rights according to their share in population,” said Akhilesh. Caste-based census has been an issue, specially in UP and Bihar. Recently, Bihar chief minister Nitish Yadav had led a delegation to meet the
Prime Minister in Delhi. There is a belief that a caste census would lead to an increase in the quote for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in government jobs and educational institutions. “Once we got into alliance with ‘Chacha ki party’ (Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party headed by uncle Shivpal Yadav), there began a series of raids in the state” he said, referring to income tax raids on those close to the SP.
“More such visits would be made by the BJP ‘prakoshth’ (organizational cells) in Delhi. The CBI, ED and income tax department are behaving more like organizations cells of BJP,” said Akhilesh.
‘Samajwadi Party will face all such tactics by BJP,” Akhilesh aid, adding ‘jo dar gaya, so mar gaya’.