Telangana will be model for national caste census: Rahul Gandhi
Telangana will start conducting the caste census from tomorrow to 30 November.
Telangana will start conducting the caste census from tomorrow to 30 November.
This act has sparked protests, with right-wing organizations calling for a bandh in the area tomorrow.
He said that the top Congress leadership had previously stated that a caste census would be implemented if the party came to power.
For this initiative, nearly 80,000 enumerators will be deployed to gather data from every household in the state, with each enumerator covering approximately 150 households.
A huge political storm was triggered in Telangana after a raid by Cyberabad Police during a party at the farmhouse of the brother-in-law of BRS working president KT Rama Rao.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working President and Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday slammed the BJP and Congress, asserting that the top leadership of both parties was arriving in the state with the goal of defeating CM K Chandrashekhar Rao.
He further accused KCR of 'admitting defeat' in the upcoming state assembly elections. Both leaders on Saturday engaged in a war of words over the purported letter.
The threat was to shoot him if he failed to pay Rs 20 crore. The ransom subsequently kept increasing to Rs 200 crore and Rs 400 crore each time a fresh email was sent.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) officially published a gazette notice on Friday, marking the start of the nomination process for the state's assembly elections
The process for general elections to Telangana Assembly was set in motion on Friday with the issue of gazette notifications.
