Will force BJP, RSS leaders to conduct caste census, says Lalu Prasad Yadav

Launching a frontal attack on the BJP-led NDA government over the issue of the caste census, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Tuesday declared that the opposition will put pressure on the government so intensely that it will be compelled to conduct the census.

His comment came a day after the RSS said it would support caste census only if the data collected were used for the welfare of the underprivileged and not for political reasons.

"We will hold RSS, BJP by the ear, make them do sit-ups and get the caste census done. What authority do they have that they will not conduct a caste census? We will force them so much that they will have to do it. The time has come for the Dalits, backward, tribals and poor to show unity," Lalu Prasad posted on X in Hindi.

He wrote that after he returned to Patna after a routine check-up in Singapore. Prasad's kidney transplant operation was successfully done in Singapore in December 2022.

The RJD organised a statewide one-day sit-in on Sunday, September