Bilaspur: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday stated his occasion would conduct a “caste census” if elected to energy as solely such an train would guarantee “participation of OBCs, Dalits, tribals and girls”. He additionally requested why the Narendra Modi authorities had not launched the main points of a ‘caste census’ performed by the Congress (when it was in energy) and sought to know if the PM was afraid of such an train. Addressing the state authorities’s ‘Awas Nyay Sammelan’ in Parsada (Sakri) village in Bilaspur, Gandhi additionally waved a distant management on the crowd and stated the poor and needy had been benefited when the Congress presses it, whereas “Adani will get ports, airports and railway contracts” when the ruling BJP does the identical.
“The Congress had performed a caste census that has the report of the inhabitants of each caste within the nation. The Union authorities has this report however Modiji would not need to reveal it,” he claimed. “Caste census must be performed if we need to give participation to Different Backward Courses, Dalits, tribals and girls. If Modiji doesn’t conduct a caste census, then once we are elected to energy our first step might be to conduct a caste census to make sure OBC participation,” Gandhi asserted.
Gandhi stated the federal government is run by secretaries and cupboard secretaries and never MPs and MLAs, and identified that solely three of the 90 secretaries in varied Union authorities ministries are OBCs. These three individuals management solely 5 per cent of the nation’s funds, Gandhi stated and questioned if India solely had 5 per cent OBC inhabitants.
Asserting that the caste census is the reply to such questions, Gandhi requested why Modi was frightened of the enumeration train.
On the occasion, throughout which he launched the Bhupesh Baghel authorities’s ‘Gramin Awas Nyay Yojna (GANY)’ geared toward offering monetary help to the homeless and households having kutcha homes in rural areas, Gandhi brandished a distant management to focus on the Modi authorities. Gandhi stated he had pressed a distant management right this moment and several other thousand crore rupees went into the accounts of individuals of Chhattisgarh.
He stated the housing scheme launched in the course of the day covers these individuals who had been entitled to get help below the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana however by no means acquired it because the Centre failed to offer funds regardless of repeated reminders from the state authorities, Gandhi stated.
“We (Congress) press a distant management in entrance of cameras. The BJP does it secretly. When BJP presses a distant management, (industrialist Gautam) Adani will get Mumbai’s airport and railway contracts,” he alleged.
“There are two distant controls. After we press it, farmers obtain cash into their accounts via Nyay Scheme and English medium colleges get opened (in Chhattisgarh). However when BJP presses a distant, the general public sector will get privatized and jal-jungle-zameen (water, forests and land) goes to Adani,” Gandhi claimed.
Gandhi alleged his Lok Sabha membership was cancelled after he questioned PM Modi’s relations with Adani. Gandhi was disqualified as LS member after a court docket in Surat in Gujarat sentenced him to 2 years in jail for a comment at a rally in Karnataka about why thieves had the surname Modi.
His conviction was later stayed by the Supreme Court docket, after which he acquired again his membership of the Decrease Home.
