Congress Working Committee to debate Pahalgam assault, caste census

The assembly comes simply two days after the Centre introduced that caste enumeration will likely be a part of the subsequent inhabitants census, with the inclusion of caste particulars for the primary time since independence.

The CWC additionally met on 24 April within the wake of the Pahalgam terror assault.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated on Wednesday that the perpetrators of the 22 April assault, during which 26 individuals, principally vacationers, had been killed, have to be held accountable and the prime minister ought to act firmly.

He additionally welcomed the federal government’s “sudden” determination to incorporate caste enumeration within the subsequent census train after “11 years of opposing it”, however asserted that the Centre ought to repair a timeline for its implementation.

Crediting a sustained marketing campaign run by the Congress for the federal government saying the caste census, he had stated his speedy suspicion was that this might go the ladies’s invoice manner by way of implementation and demanded a selected date for it.

The chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha had stated that the stress the Congress placed on the federal government for the caste census has labored.