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Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, accused the Narendra Modi authorities connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) of “openly betraying Bahujans by its attack connected the caste census.”
“In Parliament, I asked the authorities a question astir the caste census — its effect is shocking. No factual framework, nary time-bound plan, nary treatment successful Parliament and nary dialog with the public. There is not adjacent immoderate tendency to larn from the strategies of palmy caste surveys successful different states,” Mr. Gandhi said successful a station connected X, referring to his written questions to the Home Ministry.
On Tuesday (December 2, 2025), helium posed 3 written questions successful the Lok Sabha, asking for the details and tentative timelines of the cardinal procedural steps to hole for the decadal census, including the mentation of questions and mounting schedules.
Mr. Gandhi had besides asked whether the authorities has immoderate connection to people the draught census questions, question inputs from the wide nationalist oregon people’s representatives and if champion practices from erstwhile exercises, including the caste surveys done by assorted states, volition beryllium factored in.
“The Census 2027 volition beryllium conducted successful 2 phases, namely Phase I: House Listing and Housing Census from April to September, 2026 implicit a play of 30 days, according to the convenience of the State/UT governments. This volition beryllium followed by Phase II: Population Enumeration (PE),” Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said successful his written reply.
Justice for Zubeen
In the Lok Sabha, Congress’ Deputy Leader Gaurav Gogoi besides raised the contented of justness for precocious Zubeen Garg, Assam’s culutral icon.
“Zubeen Garg was a legendary musician. He passed distant successful Singapore successful September erstwhile helium was owed to execute astatine a relation organised by the Ministry of External Affairs, GoI, and the High Commission of India to Singapore,” Mr. Gogoi said.
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“We privation to cognize how, during a programme organised by the Government of India, a execution was committed connected overseas soil. Today, the radical of Assam miss him. We privation justness for him,” the Congress’ Deputy Leader said.
On September 19, Zubeen died successful an accident portion swimming during a yacht travel with a radical of radical successful Singapore, a time earlier helium was to execute astatine a unrecorded concert.
During Zero Hour, BJP MP, Nishikant Dubey demanded a citizenship survey successful the borderline areas of West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand. “All these Opposition parties person been winning elections by utilizing these infiltrators arsenic ballot banks. A nationalist registry of citizens (NRCs) workout should beryllium conducted and amerciable Bangladeshis should beryllium pushed out,” Mr. Dubey said.
