New Delhi, May 7 (PTI) Supporting the demand for a caste- based census, LJP today said government should undertake the exercise as it will give a clear picture of the population of different castes living in the country.
"Some castes say that they are 52 per cent, Some say they are 20 per cent....There are several castes which have no mention in any list, neither they are backwards nor Dalits. We demand census on caste lines. There is no harm in it. Caste- based census was last done in 1931," LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan told reporters here.
Noting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured the Lok Sabha today that government would take a decision shortly in the matter, Paswan said, "We will welcome the move if government decides to conduct caste-based Census."
Paswan underlined that no system has damaged the country to the extent the caste system has done.
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