Patna: The day before meeting PM Narendra Modi with the delegation of all parties from Bihar, CM Nitish Kumar on Sunday confirms that caste-based census must be held throughout the country at least once.
Responding to media requests, Nitish said the demand for the caste census was an important problem.
“We have demanded it for a long time,” he added.
Nitish will lead the delegation of 11 members of 10 political parties from Bihar and meet PM in New Delhi on Monday to suppress the caste-based census in the country.
The meeting will be held at 11am.
“Bihars are not the only ones who ask the caste-based census but the whole country supports it.
The leaders of all political parties from Bihar will be together to meet PM and present this request,” Nitish said.
CM and some other delegation members reach Delhi on Sunday.
Opposition leader at the Tejashwi Prasad Yadav Bihar Assembly, which will represent RJD in delegates, also in Delhi.
The long demand delayed for the caste census was revived in July this year after the center told Lok Sabha, it would not mention the caste population, except those from SCS and STS.
Previously, the government of Maharashtra and Odisha also asked the center to collect detail caste in the upcoming census.