The BC groups feel that by taking an initiative for a caste census in Telangana, it can send a right message to BCs across the country.
While Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has been supporting the demand for caste-based census, its government in Telangana may come under pressure from the backward classes (BCs) to conduct a survey in the state on the lines of the exercise being undertaken in Bihar. Backward classes groups are demanding the K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR)-led government to issue an order to conduct the caste census of BCs in the state as the BJP-led union government is refusing to undertake the exercise at the national level.
The BC groups feel that by taking an initiative for a caste census in Telangana, it can send a right message to BCs across the country. These groups have even offered to extend help to BRS in other states if it comes out with an order to conduct BC caste census in Telangana.
BC Sankshema Sangham national president Jajula Srinivas Goud said, “If a GO (Government Order) is issued for caste census in Telangana, we are ready to enlighten BCs and OBCs in states where BRS wants to contest,” he said.
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