Who and how long the real beneficiary of caste census will be, this is the biggest question socially. And, even if you look at politics, the same is understanding the same.
The race to take political advantage had started as soon as the news of the caste census was approved in the cabinet meeting, now the matter has moved a lot.
In the decision of caste census, the impact of Bihar elections was felt, views have also started appearing in Patna. In the capital of Bihar, posters of all those leaders are being seen, who are going ahead and taking credit for caste census.
A poster has been installed outside the state office of JDU, in which gratitude has been expressed to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is written on the poster, Nitish showed, now the country adopted. Thanks to Prime Minister Modi, caste census, from Bihar to India. The BJP, which is in power at the Center, becomes a natural claim. The BJP is saying, the credit for the decision to include caste -based data in the upcoming census goes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The same is seen in the opposition camp. Posters have also been installed outside the offices of both RJD and Congress. And, the credit is being given to its own leaders for the BJP’s central government to get work done. In a poster of RJD, it is written, ‘People bend, need to bend. Finally, the central government agreed to Lalu Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav… credit goes to Lalu Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav.
Congress workers went four steps ahead and made a milking of Rahul Gandhi’s picture. In the Congress poster, the credit for caste census naturally has been given to Rahul Gandhi.
It is known that in June 2025, the Congress is going to hold a caste census conference in Bhopal, in which Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is also going to join the Lok Sabha.
The first fight of Congress is with BJP
Along with the conference on caste census in Bhopal, the Congress has also decided to launch an awareness campaign in Madhya Pradesh. According to Madhya Pradesh Congress President Jeetu Patwari, this campaign will run for two months.
Jeetu Patwari even speaks of credit for caste census to Rahul Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi raised the demand for caste census from different forums about two lakh times in the last 11 years… BJP continued to deny it, but due to our stagnation, the Center was forced to take a decision.
A hashtag has been going on on social media about caste census, count. Jeetu Patwari has also claimed that keep counting.
It has been alleged from the Congress that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a master of giving headline, but does not give deadline. Rahul Gandhi is also demanding the central government to tell the time limit for caste census.
The election is in Bihar, but the aim of holding a conference in Bhopal of Congress is to surround the BJP. The BJP government’s stakes of caste census have disturbed all the opposition parties including the Congress. The Congress still wanted to surround the BJP government on Pahalgam, but the BJP set a new agenda on the pretext of caste census, the Congress has to react only.
On Pahalgam too, the Congress had adopted a separate strategy from Pulwama and Uri attack, so that the Congress leaders made a statement, and increased the difficulties as before.
Amid the unbridled rhetoric of Congress leaders, the social media department had shared the ‘missing’ poster by targeting Prime Minister Modi, which also had to delete when there was a ruckus.
For the purpose of increasing the pressure on the BJP, Rahul Gandhi is also demanding to increase the cap of 50 per cent of reservation by the Supreme Court – but due to the key to the BJP, the Congress is surviving the limited scope.
Rahul Gandhi has a Telangana model, but one has to come in the rescue posture as soon as Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh are mentioned.
Congress has to fight differently from regional parties
Rahul Gandhi has already made arrangements to fight regional parties on almost every political issue. RJD in Bihar and Samajwadi Party Congress in UP have been advising the Congress to leave the driving seat, but Rahul Gandhi tries to create a bully by stating the lack of ideology, and then the conflict starts.
To counter Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar, Rahul Gandhi has carried forward the Telangana model of cast census.
And, Rahul Gandhi has targeted Akhilesh Yadav by going home, the victim of Pahalgam attack in UP. After Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s visit to Kanpur, Rahul Gandhi’s program is made at a time when Akhilesh Yadav has publicly spoken that he has no relation with the family.
Rahul Gandhi in a press conference says that the pressure made by the Congress on the issue of caste census proved to be effective, then Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav says that 90 percent PDA pressure has given 100 percent success.
Rahul Gandhi’s claim is its place, but RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has written on the social site X, caste census is beginning, the picture is yet to be… reserved constituencies reserved for backward/extremely backward, reservation in private sector, reservation in contract, reservation in judiciary, Mandal commission will implement the remaining recommendations, will give reservation in proportion to population, special package for Bihar.
It is completely clear that the Congress may now have to fight all -round – and the possibility of getting the benefit of caste census is still less, like women are still far away from getting the benefit of women’s reservation law.