'BJP national president Nitin Gadkari should immediately convene a national executive meeting and declare the party's policy decision', said the RSS ideologue.
The BJP should clarify its stand on the caste based census issue and clear the misconception that its affairs are controlled by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), RSS ideologue MG alias Baburao Vaidya said today.
BJP is still undecided. Opposition leader in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, Opposition leader in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley along with LK Advani should come out with a statement on the caste-based census issue, Vaidya wrote in his weekly column in local Marathi daily 'Tarun Bharat'.
BJP national president Nitin Gadkari should immediately convene a national executive meeting and declare the party's policy decision, he added.
According to Vaidya, RSS has already made known its opposition to the caste based census but "the BJP is free to decide and not necessarily toe the RSS line. This will indeed help clear the misconception that BJP affairs are controlled from the RSS headquarters."
The BJP has officially maintained a silence over the issue despite senior party leader and deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Gopinath Munde making his support for caste-based census public, he added.
Munde struck cordial relationship with Maharashtra deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal recently on caste based census
even before it came in Lok Sabha and got a tremendous support
from Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav, he said.
"Other Backward Classes(OBC) is not a particular community but a cluster of communities and that is demanding inclusion in census. The paramount question is should Munde's stance be taken as an official party line?," Vaidya wrote.
Supporting caste census, senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde had said it would not divide people but help estimate actual population of OBCs in the country and highlight the plight of
the poor.
"Caste census will not divide the people but give justice to the poor and also help estimate the real population of the OBCs," Munde said.
According to the RSS ideologue, even the Congress was not
united on the issue.
While law minister Veerappa Moily is in favour of caste based census, home minister P Chidambaram is against it and has cited some operational difficulties, Vaidya wrote.
Caste system is no more relevant today as many of them are not following it. It will be a conspiracy merely to create a vote bank, Vaidya added.
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