For decades, the Congress party and its allies have treated the idea of a national caste census with contempt or cowardly silence. From Nehru to Indira to Rajiv Gandhi, successive Congress governments made sure the Indian state remained blind to the actual caste and religious composition of its citizens. Now, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a nationwide caste census, after nearly a century, the very same Congress suddenly wants to claim credit for it, while also crying foul. Why? Because this census threatens to expose not just historical hypocrisies but a sinister ecosystem of appeasement, deception, and manufactured backwardness nurtured by Congress and its Left-liberal allies for decades.
Let’s set the record straight. The last time India conducted a caste-based census was in 1931 under British rule. After Independence, the first opportunity to course-correct came in 1951, but Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru outright rejected caste enumeration. His reasoning? Caste was divisive, and he wanted a “modern” India unburdened by “primitive” identities. But in reality, Nehru’s refusal to count castes was a calculated decision. A full enumeration would have exposed the demographic strength of certain communities, especially Hindus from OBC and SC/ST categories, thereby undermining the Congress’s minority-appeasement model and socialist elite politics.
Indira Gandhi followed in Nehru’s footsteps. In 1980, when the Mandal Commission submitted its landmark report recommending reservations for OBCs, she promptly shelved it. No action. No debate. Just dust. Rajiv Gandhi, true to dynastic form, parroted his mother’s slogan: “Na jaat par, na paat par” (Not on caste, not on creed)—yet did absolutely nothing to uplift backward castes structurally. Worse, he too ensured the Mandal recommendations remained in cold storage. It was left to V.P. Singh, heading a non-Congress government, to implement them in 1990, unleashing tectonic shifts in Indian politics.
Now, decades later, it is Narendra Modi—himself a backward caste leader—who has finally decided to conduct a caste census as part of the National Population Census under constitutional provisions (specifically Article 246). And suddenly, the Congress and its allies, who had mocked the very idea for years—are panicking, lying, and twisting themselves into knots.
Make no mistake: the Modi government’s decision to go ahead with the caste census is not an act of appeasement. It is an act of national reckoning.
The so-called “caste surveys” conducted by states like Bihar and Karnataka, besides Telangana under Congress and its allies have already been exposed for their lack of transparency and political manipulation. Karnataka’s data was riddled with inconsistencies, Telangana’s report remains under wraps, and Bihar’s numbers conveniently inflated Muslim and Yadav population figures to suit the RJD’s core base. The central caste census, by contrast, will be scientific, comprehensive, and far more credible.
And that’s exactly what rattles the Congress.
Because the truth hurts.
A real caste census will reveal:
- The actual share of OBCs, SCs, and STs, not based on guesstimates, but hard data.
- How many people who converted to Christianity or Islam continue to enjoy SC/ST benefits, despite constitutional norms that restrict these reservations to Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists only?
- The bloated entitlements and vote-bank engineering carried out in the name of social justice while real backward Hindus are left behind.
The Congress fears this exposure like Pakistan fears Indian airstrikes. And the timing couldn’t be worse for them.
Even as India prepares for possible retaliatory military action after the Pahalgam massacre, the Congress is busy playing saboteur. Demanding a Parliament session to discuss security matters—when it is neither constitutionally required nor strategically advisable—amounts to nothing short of political blackmail during a national crisis. Worse, leaked claims from Pakistani quarters that India might strike “within 24–36 hours” raise the disturbing possibility: who’s feeding Pakistan this sensitive information?
If such intelligence has indeed been compromised, the needle of suspicion must point toward those in India who have a history of undermining national security—often to score political brownie points. The Congress and its allies, in their desperation to stop Modi, have become indistinguishable from India’s external enemies.
The most damning indictment of Congress is not just its caste duplicity but its deliberate facilitation of mass conversions over the decades. The party not only allowed but actively enabled Christian missionary networks and Islamist groups, funded by foreign NGOs, to target tribal and poor Hindu communities. The Congress-era laws restricted Hindu religious propagation in the Northeast, turning entire states into Christian-majority regions, while letting conversion mafias run riot.
Narendra Modi, since 2014, has systematically dismantled this foreign-funded nexus:
- Thousands of FCRA licenses were cancelled.
- Anti-conversion laws were passed in several BJP-ruled states.
- Public scrutiny of foreign-funded NGOs intensified.
It is precisely this dismantling of their vote-bank machinery that has made the Congress and its ecosystem viscerally hate Modi. Now, the caste census is set to deliver the final blow—by exposing fake Dalits, fabricated minorities, and fraudulent entitlement-seekers who have gamed the system.
The Endgame: Modi’s Final Stroke
This caste census is not just data collection. It’s an X-ray of India’s soul—a mirror to its historical wrongs, its silenced majorities, and its exploited castes. And it will irrevocably change the discourse around reservations, social justice, and minority appeasement.
Just as India’s surgical strikes left Pakistan reeling, this census will devastate the Opposition’s false narratives. The Congress will no longer be able to hide behind slogans or staged victimhood. This is a coffin nail—one hammered not in anger, but with surgical precision.
And come September, when the caste census begins, the Indian electorate—now far more informed, alert, and politically literate thanks to social media—will have another reason to trust Modi and reject those who sold their soul for votes.
