"Trying To Divide Country...": PM After Bihar Releases Caste Survey Report
NDTV
Responding to the Bihar government report today, Rahul Gandhi said on X, "... the Congress reiterates its demand that the union government conduct a national caste census at the earliest."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the opposition of "trying to divide the country in the name of caste", in a sharp comment that came hours after the Bihar government released details of its controversial state-wide caste-based survey. The Prime Minister did not refer to the survey or any specific party but, in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, he lashed out at the opposition for having failed to secure development while in power and attacked them for "playing with the feelings of the poor". #WATCH | On the caste-based survey, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi says, "When BJP was a part of the Bihar government, that government only took the decision to do a caste-based survey in Bihar. Today the Bihar government has made the data public. BJP is analysing the data. We will… pic.twitter.com/PVSLnLrPb6
"They played with emotions of the poor back then... and even today they are playing the same game. Earlier they divided the country in the name of caste... and today they are committing the same sin. Earlier they were guilty of corruption... and today they are even more corrupt," he said in Gwalior.
The Prime Minister also called any attempt at "division on caste lines" a "sin".
