UP CM Adityanath: Congress wants to rob rights of Dalits, backward classes through caste census

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday alleged that Congress wants to rob the rights of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Castes with its caste census.

Addressing a press conference at the state BJP headquarters, Adityanath said the Congress and the INDIA bloc will tear the social fabric of the country with its caste census.

Citing a 2006 speech by then prime minister Manmohan Singh, Adityanath said the Congress leader had said that Muslims had the first right on the country’s resources.

"Congress will conduct a survey of people’s properties and then distribute it. They are making the caste census its basis,” the chief minister said, claiming that the Congress has expressed such an intention in its manifesto.

"Congress's intention has always been to gain power by any means. They want power at the expense of the country. For this, they will bring in Talibani tendencies in India that will cause barbaric atrocities of women,” he said.

The Congress talks of implementing Muslim Personal Law and Sharia Law after coming back to power, Adityanath said.