Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said the caste census was the only way to make available the nation's resources and assets equally to all sections of society and to render justice to all.
Speaking at a meeting to the caste census here on Tuesday, Bhatti said that the decision on the caste census was taken after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was convinced of its need during his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Bhatti said Tuesday's meeting to discuss the caste census would become golden letter day in the history of India.
Bhatti recalled that Rahul Gandhi had predicted before the general elections that Congress would assume power in Telangana and announced that caste census would commence from the state.
From the day the Congress came into power, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and the Cabinet had started working on giving shape and direction to Rahul Gandhi’s thoughts and ideas, he said.
The first step was to pass an unanimous resolution on caste census in the Assembly, followed by issuing a GO based on the Assembly resolution through the planning department to bring it into the public domain.
Rahul Gandhi had held discussions with intellectuals and social scientists to decide what questions to be included in the survey, Bhatti said.
As part of this process, suggestions and views of intellectuals will be taken and Gandhi’s ideas would be incorporated to frame the questions for the survey, Bhatti said.
