PM and PMO quiet on caste census, whereas residents wait and marvel

BJP leaders had after all taken their cue from their nice chief and commenced vociferous and cruel criticism of the concept of a caste census — it was harmful, divisive and a pre-colonial British ploy to rule over the nation, they screamed.

There was no caste, they argued, in Amrit Kaal.

A BJP spokesperson, Sudhangshu Trivedi, had gone additional nonetheless and declared that Barhai (carpenter), Lohar (ironsmith) and Sunar (goldsmith) weren’t castes however merely conventional occupations.

An identical argument has been superior by PM Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat. He had famously said that handbook scavengers, nearly solely Dalits, weren’t victims of the caste system however had been doing God’s work, spinning Mahatma Gandhi’s coinage of ‘Harijan’ into a brand new narrative to explain them.