Gandhinagar: Gujarat government spokesperson minister Rishikesh Patel, responding to the proposal of a caste-based census made in the last day’s motion in Gujarat Assembly by the leader of the opposition Amit Chavda under Rule-102, said that the caste mindset is visible in the Congress’s proposal for a socio-economic census. It can be clearly seen that Congress has come up with a new trick to spread illusion among the citizens of this country and Gujarat.

The Gujarat government’s Spokesperson Minister said: Ever since the country became independent, the Congress has only been doing the politics of lies, the politics of spreading illusions, the politics of vote banks, and the politics of division.

Congress has lost its base, and to achieve the daydreams of getting back that base and sitting on the highest chair of the country, it goes to the extent of dividing society and playing the caste census to find its base.

The Minister further added that, during the British period in India, from 1871 to 1931, a caste census was also conducted along with the population census.

The British, with the intention of dividing the nation of India on the basis of many things like religion, caste, province, age, gender, and race, wanted to rule by putting one religion against another religion, one caste against another caste, the backward class against the upper class.

Britishers wanted to break the cultural heritage of the Indian nation, social harmony, the spirit of equal approach to all religions, and the spirit of unity in diversity.

That is why the British, with their policy of divide and rule, used to conduct caste censuses.

But when the first census was conducted after independence in 1951, the then Prime Minister late Shri Jawaharlal Nehru himself said that the caste census will lead to upper-lower discrimination in the society, the poison of casteism will spread in the country, the country will be divided, and it will be divided into pieces.

The 1951 census did not conduct a caste census. Since then, Congress ruled the country for 54 years until the year 2011. Where was this Congress then?

In the 2011 census, even though the caste census was done at the cost of 5000 crores, Congress’s Dr. Manmohan Singh-led government did not release the statistics and report.

The former Prime Minister of the country, Shri Morarji Desai, formed the Mandal Commission in 1979 to survey the backward castes in the country, the report of which was shelved for years by Indiraji and Rajiv Gandhi. And when V.P. Singh declared it, the Congress openly opposed it.

Bharatiya Janata Party is committed to the basic spirit of the Constitution prepared by Baba Saheb Ambedkar. The BJP government has made five constitutional amendments in the Constitution of India relating to the protection of reservation.

For the upliftment of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes, the BJP and NDA governments have passed the 81st, 82nd, and 85th Constitutional Amendments, as well as the 102nd and 103rd Constitutional Amendments.

The BJP has protected the reservation system by amending the constitution against the people of Congress, who spread the false propaganda that the BJP would change the constitution and remove the reservation by force of majority.

Although casteism may be the main weapon for the Congress, the country’s prime minister and world leader respected Modi, who has spoken of only four castes in this country: the poor, the youth, the farmers, and the women.

The caste-wise census is a matter of the central government; the state has no power to conduct the caste-wise census.