00:00BJP withdrew support to the VP Singh government on the Mandel Commission in August of 1991.
00:07BJP supported the National Front government.
00:12And the BJP withdrew to support when VP Singh as Prime Minister announced the implementation of the Mandel Commission.
00:18And they started the Kamandal agitation to counter the Mandel agitation.
00:22So let's not get into this history.
00:24I can also go into the history of how the RSS opposed the Constitution of India beginning November 1949.
00:30How Yogi Adityanath has opposed reservations.
00:33How RSS leaders have opposed reservations.
00:36How the RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat has spoken against reservations.
00:40So let's keep history aside for the time being.
00:43We have enough ammunition from our side.
00:45According to the Constitution of India, 7th schedule, census is the responsibility of the central government.
00:52It comes in the central list.
00:54Now, if the center does not want to carry out the census, as given in the Constitution,
01:01there is no alternative left for states except to do caste surveys.
01:05So various states have done caste surveys.
01:06Telangana has done one.
01:08Karnataka has done one.
01:10Now, Bihar has done one.
01:12Now, the point is, the responsibility is that of the central government.
01:17And the Prime Minister has consistently opposed the caste census.
01:21On the 28th of April 2024, he called all those wanting a caste census urban naxons.
01:28This was a television interview he gave during the election campaign.
01:32He called the Congress party urban naxons.
01:35Then, they filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on the 21st of September 2021.
01:43They filed an affidavit saying that we are against a caste census.
01:46We have no intention of carrying out a caste census.
01:49Then, there is a question that is asked by Rekha Khandse, Raksha Khandse.
01:57She is a member of the Council of Ministers now.
02:00She asks a question.
02:02This was on 28th of July 2021.
02:06And the answer to the question given by the minister concerned is that we are opposed to a caste census,
02:12that we have no intention of carrying out a caste census.
02:14Now, today's Gazette notification says only census will be done in late October of 26 in Jammu and Kashmir,
02:26Uttarakhand and Himachal and in the rest of the country, it will be done in March 2027.
02:31It does not talk of the word caste census.
02:34So, my question is, has the Prime Minister changed his mind again?
02:38Palti master has changed his mind, done one more palti.
02:41Why is there no mention of the caste census in the guideline, in the notification?
02:48Secondly, the budget allocation, it will take at least 9,000 to 10,000 crores by the government's own admission to carry out a census.
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