Since the caste census has long lived in the demands of the Congress party, the current Congress leaders have reiterated that if their party happens to assume power, implementation is their primary agenda.
Rudely addressing the people present at the ‘Samajik Nyay Sammelan’ in Delhi, Gandhi argued that no power could stop the Department of Caste Census from implementing the scheme, affirming that they would be the first task that the government would do.
For Gandhi’s clarification of PM Modi’s criticism directed at him and his party, BJP, after they proposed wealth redistribution, he said
This should not be in the process but should only be to measure the intensity of injustice.
He accused the BJP of being in a “panic” following the reading of the Congress’s “revolutionary” Manifesto, and to prove this, he stated their intention to provide relief to nearly 90 percent of Indians with another budget they intended to introduce; he highlighted the lack of need to pay back the ₹16 lakh crore granted as loan waivers to a select number of wealthy capitalists
Gandhi ensured that the caste census was not confined merely to the enumeration of castes. Still, it had a profound inquiry into economic and institutional systems that focused on the target castes and also to determine the lack of socio-economic justice for non-target castes.
He castigated the BJP for reportedly defacing the past of the oppressed communities such as Scheduled Classes (Dalits) and Tribals and implored for the remedy.
Although Rahul Gandhi’s inextinguishable concern with the above subject does reflect some of society’s desires, the very implementation and magnitude of the above policies are not yet a fact; their influence on the persisting social inequalities is an ongoing debate and political discourse.
