Lalu Prasad fires fresh salvo at Modi govt on caste census

Patna : RJD president Lalu Prasad on Wednesday took a fresh jibe at the Narendra Modi government on the caste census issue, which the OBC stalwart and his ilk believe, could usher in a second Mandal wave.
The ailing septuagenarian, who is in Delhi, took to Twitter to allege that the ruling dispensation was averse to a headcount of the OBCs whom it considered “worse than even animals”.
The former Bihar chief minister shared a Hindi newspaper report, which spoke about the rise in the number of crocodiles found in the river Gandak, which flows through the state.
“The Union government counts even crocodiles, but refuses to do so for the numerically powerful (bahusankhyak) poor, deprived and downtrodden Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes,” Prasad, who has also served as a Union minister in the government headed by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said.
The report cites the findings of Wildlife Trust of India, a non-government organisation.
Notably, the Centre has made it clear that it will not undertake, as part of the census, a headcount of social groups other than the SCs, the STs and religious minorities.