New Delhi, May 6 (PTI) Indian Parliament today debated caste and census. Fair deal to the backwards was the focus of the debate on Census 2011 in the Lok Sabha today with members cutting across party lines demanding that the exercise should be caste-based.
Batting for inclusion of caste in the exercise, several members warned that if the demands of backwards were ignored for long, a "volcano" could erupt.
"When the Government can count the number of trees and nullahs in survey, what is the problem in adding a column to include castes in the ongoing exercise," Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav said.
Similar was the tone and tenor of JD-U chief Sharad Yadav and RJD leader Lalu Prasad during the inconclusive discussion which saw several Congress members including former minister Beni Prasad Verma making a strong pitch for caste-based census.
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