CWC meeting on Friday to discuss govt’s caste census move: Sources
New Delhi, May 1 (PTI) The Congress Working Committee will meet on Friday to discuss the government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census, sources said.
The Centre on Wednesday announced that caste enumeration will be part of the next population census, with the inclusion of caste details for the first time since independence.
Sources said a CWC meeting will be held at 4 PM at the party’s 24, Akbar Road office on Friday to discuss the government decision and the way forward.
The CWC had also met last week on April 24 in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has said he welcomes the government’s “sudden” decision to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census after “11 years of opposing it” but asserted that the Centre should give a timeline for its implementation.
Crediting the sustained campaign run by the Congress for the government’s announcement on the caste census, Gandhi has said his immediate suspicion is that this could go the women’s bill way in terms of implementation and demanded a specific date for it.
The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said it is clear that the pressure the Congress put on the government for the caste census has worked.
