RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav tries to unite Opposition on caste census

Opposition events are planning to nook the BJP by elevating the problem of the Union authorities submitting an affidavit within the Supreme Court on Thursday {that a} caste census wouldn’t be possible in 2021.

RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav wrote to 33 senior leaders of various political events on Friday, asking them for his or her strategies and inputs on the problem in order that a direct plan of motion might be ready on the problem.

Other than main opposition leaders similar to Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, Navin Patnaik, Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav, MK Stalin, Uddhav Thackeray and Sitaram Yechuri, Tejashwi wrote to Jitan Ram Manjhi and Mukesh Sahni, who’re a part of the NDA.

Yadav urged the senior leaders in his letter that earlier than the census train begins all of them should urge the Union authorities to incorporate inside the delayed 2021 census a caste census as effectively.

“There’s a churning throughout India to know the essential actuality of our personal folks,” RJD chief Manoj Jha informed ET. “The following step might be a gathering of all of the necessary leaders with respect to easy methods to take it ahead in respective assemblies and on the streets.”

On Sunday, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren will lead an all-party delegation of 11 leaders to satisfy the house minister on the problem of caste-based census. Soren had earlier sought time with the Prime Minister on the problem. Nonetheless, the PM being within the US, the delegation will meet the house minister. The delegation additionally has BJP state president Deepak Prakash and AJSU chief Sudesh Mahto, who’s a part of the NDA.