Bihar To Conduct On Caste Census
- 02-Jun-2022
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Bihar BJP Supports Nitish
Patna, (BDNS):the Bihar unit of the BJP Wednesday joined all political parties of the state to unanimously decide in favour of a state caste census.
After an all-party meeting, Chief Minister and JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar said since the Centre has made it clear that a nationwide caste census cannot be done, the state has decided to conduct its own caste census.
All nine parties unanimously decided to go ahead with the caste census. We will soon get it approved by the (state) Cabinet and allocate funds for the purpose. We will duly advertise the process and set a completion deadline.
Bihar CM said, All Bihar parties including the BJP had met the Prime Minister last year with a request to conduct a nationwide caste census.
‘Now that the Centre has made it clear that a nationwide caste census cannot be done, we have decided to go ahead with the state census. There is complete unanimity on it,’ he said.
