"PM Modi Insulted Nitish Kumar Over Caste Census": Tejashwi Yadav

A Caste-based Census would be beneficial for everyone, especially the backward communities, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said.

Bihar Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had insulted Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by not granting him the time sought to meet and discuss the need for a Caste-based Census, which the Centre has said will not be conducted. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader said he has also written to the Centre on the matter. Mr Yadav's comment today came days after the Chief Minister himself said he had not received any response to his letter, received by the Prime Minister's Office on August 4, seeking to meet PM Modi. "Since both (Centre and Bihar) have NDA governments...we, the opposition leaders of Bihar Assembly, without any bias, went and met the respected Chief Minister in his chambers. We said, you seek some time (with the PM) and we will go and meet him. "If he hasn't been granted time for a week now, somehow it is an insult of the Chief Minister."