Congress will launch 100-day OBC rights campaign: Koppula Raju
The Congress party has announced a 100-day campaign in Telangana to advocate for a nationwide caste census and the removal of the 50% reservation cap. Party leaders claim the Telangana state government serves as a model for scientific caste enumeration, contrasting it with the central government's alleged failure to include OBC categories in national census processes.
Why it matters
This campaign highlights the growing political pressure surrounding caste-based data collection in India, which is central to debates over reservation policies and social equity ahead of future electoral cycles.
The Congress will launch a 100-day campaign for OBC rights across Telangana, demanding an immediate nationwide caste census and removal of the 50% ceiling on reservations, Congress Working Committee invitee Koppula Raju said on Saturday.
Speaking at Gandhi Bhavan along with Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar and TPCC president, Mr. Mahesh Kumar Goud, he said the slogan raised by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his Bharat Jodo Yatra had evolved into a movement and that Telangana had emerged as a “role model” in conducting a scientific caste survey under Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.
Mr. Raju said the Congress, Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge had been pressing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the last five years to conduct a caste census along with the population census. The party now intended to turn the demand into a nationwide movement, he said.
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