“All the big socialist leaders, from time to time, spoke about caste”: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav

Patna (Bihar) [India], September 1 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday advocated for the nationwide caste census and the inclusion of the 65 percent quota increase in Bihar in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution and said that all the big socialist leaders, from time to time, talked about castes.

Hitting out at the BJP for opposing the caste census, the RJD leader said that the BJP wants to keep the poor as poor all their life, and that is their mentality.

“BJP wants the son of a garbage collector and the next generation to clean drains his entire life…Those who are beggars should be kept as beggars all their lives. This is the mentality of the BJP…All the big socialist leaders, from time to time, talked about caste. The great men who were our leaders, all talked about reservation and talked about those sections that are at the bottom of society, whether Dalit, tribal or backward,” the RJD leader said, while speaking at the protest rally.

“Even today, you will see that discrimination happens in society…Today, when we talk of the caste census, people say that we are trying to divide society… It should be found out what is the condition of people from different castes… Poverty is our enemy and we should work to remove it,” he added.

While talking to the media, the RJD leader also took on the JDU demanding the party make its stand clear.

“I just have a question for the JD(U) – whether they want reservation that was increased by the Mahagathbandhan government to be included in the 9th Schedule (of Constitution) or not?” he asked.

Meanwhile, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) also held a state-wide one-day sit-in protest with the demand for a nationwide caste census and the inclusion of the 65 per cent quota increase in Bihar in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.

Leader of opposition in the state assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, also participated in the protest from the party office on Beerchand Patel Path.