Caste Census: Years later, RSS leaders support caste census

New Delhi

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leader Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi responded to the decision of the union cabinet in part of the next census and said on April 30, 2025 (April 30, 2025) that the country should do everything.

Mr Josh gave a brief speech to the media, saying the date of the census will be up to the government to decide when the appropriate time will arrive. Joshi has rejected the idea of ​​a caste census in the past few times, and the ideological parent RSS of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has also refused.

For example, around this time in 2010, the Moth before the 2011 census was conducted, in the request to include actors, Mr. Josh, then the co-secretary of the group, said the registration of the category was good, but caste registration was not a good idea. He added that caste-based census is an idea against unparalleled societies.

Since then, over a decade or so, RSS has maintained distance from the caste census, claiming that it is not part of the social concept envisioned by the organization’s senior leaders, even Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar.

In 2023, Shridhar Gadge, a senior RSS staffer, questioned the need for a caste census, adding that it could benefit some people politically but not for national unity.

At the Council meeting in Plakkad, Kerala in September 2024, Sangh Parivar appeared publicly to support the caste census but claimed that it was for the decline, while in Plakkad, Kerala, Sangh Parivar publicly supported the caste census but claimed that the same should be done for the decline of the degree of community welfare and should not be applied to the election.

The head of Sunil Ambekar at RSS once said: “For all welfare activities that are behind the community or caste, it is a special concern for certain castes and communities, and the government needs numbers. It is good. It has made great practices. It has also taken such numbers earlier and can also take these actions again.