Bihar caste census from today; CM Nitish Kumar says move to benefit all

The state government was compelled to conduct the exercise on its own after the Centre rejected its demand for a caste-based census. The state assembly had unanimously passed a resolution for caste census twice in the past and requested the Centre to consider it. In August last year, an all-party delegation headed by Nitish had called on PM Narendra Modi with a request to look into the demand, but in vain.

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