TN BJP Chief Annamalai Slams MK Stalin Govt Over Resolution Urging Centre To Conduct Caste Census Immediately

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on 26 June 2024 moved a resolution in the State Assembly calling on the Central Government to initiate the census work immediately, including a caste-based population census. The resolution emphasized the importance of a caste-based census for formulating policies to ensure equal rights and opportunities in education, economy, and employment for all citizens of India. “This House considers that caste-based Population Census is essential to formulate policies in order to ensure equal rights and equal opportunities in education, economy, and employment to every citizen of India,” the resolution stated. It also urged the Union Government to commence the overdue census work from 2021 along with the caste-based census.

Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party Chief K Annamalai posted on his social media handle regarding the move by Chief Minister Stalin. He wrote, “The Kulasekaran Commission, set up by the previous state government in Tamil Nadu, was not given a simple six-month extension by the DMK Government after coming to power. Tamil Nadu could have had its own Caste Census by now, and TN CM Thiru @MKStalin is duty-bound to explain to the people of TN and its representatives in the legislative assembly why the extension was not given. We also wish to inform the TN CM that the Socio-economic Caste Census in 2011, which the Congress Government never released despite 99.3% enumeration by December 2013, was conducted with the support of the Ministry of Rural Development through the respective “State Governments“. Why is the TN CM Thiru @MKStalin unwilling to commission a caste census?”

(with inputs from ANI)

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