We will demolish ‘artificial barrier’ of 50% cap on caste-based reservations, says Rahul Gandhi
A day before Telangana launched a caste survey, the Congress leader said that he was proud of the state leadership.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday reiterated his party’s commitment to “demolish the artificial barrier of 50% reservations” in the country, reported PTI.
His statement came a day before the Congress government in Telangana launched a caste survey in the state. With this, Telangana will become the third state to carry out such a survey after Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
“I am proud of the Telangana leadership for taking this up and we are fully committed to the caste census,” The Hindu quoted Gandhi as saying at a state-level consultation on caste census in Hyderabad.
He added: “There will be shortcomings but, we will try to iron out by having conversations between civil society, people and the government.”
Gandhi also asserted that the caste survey would decide the country’s governance system and become a “political instrument to define how this country progresses”.
“If we want to talk of happiness or progress of the country, let us first first identify the nature of discrimination,” he said. “I cannot ignore the fact there is massive discrimination and cannot lie to Dalits, Adivasis, women, Other Backward Classes or minorities.”
The 50% cap on reservations was put in place by the Supreme Court in 1992 when it ruled that “no provision of reservation or preference can be so vigorously pursued as to destroy...
