Ali Ansari

5 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Ali Ansari |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

Rahul Gandhi’s relentless campaign for a caste census has finally prompted the Narendra Modi government to announce that caste enumeration will be part of the next national census. While the government is keen to take credit for it, the reality tells us otherwise: it was Opposition pressure on the issue which forced the BJP to change its stand. The caste census is indeed a significant development, but merely determining the OBC population won’t be enough.