Will Demolish Artificial Barrier Of 50% Reservations”: Rahul Gandhi

Hyderabad: 

Caste discrimination in India is “unique” — probably among worst in world — and the Congress will demolish the “artificial barrier” of 50 per cent reservations, the party’s senior leader Rahul Gandhi said today. Mr Gandhi is in Telangana, which is becoming the second Congress-ruled state after Karnataka to undertake a caste census. 

The caste survey will be taken up by the state government from November 6 and it will continue till the end of the month. 

Mr Gandhi, along with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, was attending a meeting organised by the state Congress, where he interacted with social groups, caste associations and state leaders and other stakeholders.

The Congress is resolved to conduct caste survey along with economic mapping to reveal who are the India’s poor and what percentage of population they comprise. This, the party maintains, will help to do away with the 50 per cent cap on reservations.