Bihar: Rahul must speak on what Congress did for reservation, says JDU’s Rajiv Ranjan Prasad

New Delhi: Slamming Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi for calling the Bihar caste census ‘fake,’ JDU leader Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said that he must speak about his party’s tenure of 55 years and tell what they did for reservation and regarding the caste census.

“In the 20-year tenure of Nitish Kumar, caste census is one of the important decisions he has taken. Based on this caste census, economically backward 94 lakh families in Bihar are being given financial assistance up to Rs 2 lakhs… Rahul Gandhi should also speak about their (Congress) tenure of 55 years, what they did for reservation, and what they did regarding caste census…” said the JDU leader.

Union Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh also criticised the Congress MP and said, “He finds everything fake when he himself is the ‘Sardar’ of fakeness. The caste census that happened in Bihar, based on that he was demanding a caste census (nationwide). When we were part of INDIA alliance and were demanding the same, then they were silent. Why were they silent?”

JDU MP Sanjay Kumar Jha too accused Congress of being hypocritical on Sunday, saying that whenever the topic of a caste census was brought up during an INDIA alliance meeting, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi “remained silent” on the issue.

“I was also present in the meeting of INDIA alliance where Nitish Kumar kept raising the issue of caste census in every meeting… Rahul Gandhi remained silent on it,” Jha told reporters.

Notably, Rahul Gandhi has raised the demand of conducting a nationwide caste census in the Parliament, likening it to an ‘X-ray’ of society.

“A caste census should be conducted to understand the true situation of the nation. It will not be like the fake caste census that has been conducted in Bihar…A policy should be made based on the caste census…Congress will pass the caste census in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. We will demolish the barrier of 50 per cent reservations,” said Rahul Gandhi, while speaking at the ‘Samvidhan Suraksha Sammelan’ in Patna, recently. (With Inputs from ANI)