Archive · 18 Aug 2026
Congress calls OBC omission from caste census 'deep conspiracy'
The Congress party is upset about a big government survey called the census.
The census counts how many people live in India.
Congress says the survey left out a special group called OBC.
OBC stands for Other Backward Classes.
Congress thinks the government left them out on purpose.
A Congress leader named Anil Jaihind called this a 'deep conspiracy.'
He said leaving OBC out is not fair.
It goes against the idea of social justice.
Without a separate column, we cannot know how many OBC people there really are.
Congress wants the government to fix this.
Congress accused the Modi government of deliberately omitting the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category from the caste census.
Party OBC department head Anil Jaihind called the omission a 'deep conspiracy' on Monday.
Jaihind cited an August 14 notification showing no separate OBC column in the 10th question of the questionnaire.
He said the omission violates social justice principles and prevents true OBC population figures from being recorded.
Congress leader Subhashini Sharad Yadav said the census must accurately identify castes as their nature varies across regions.
- Who
- Congress party, its OBC department head Anil Jaihind, and leader Subhashini Sharad Yadav, accusing the Modi government
- What
- Congress accused the Modi government of deliberately omitting the OBC category from the caste census questionnaire
- When
- Monday, August 18, citing a notification issued on August 14
- Where
- New Delhi
- Why
- Congress says the omission violates principles of social justice and prevents the true population figures of the OBC community from being recorded
- Accusing party
- Congress
- Accused
- Modi government
- Allegation
- Deliberate omission of OBC category from caste census
- Congress characterization
- Deep conspiracy
- Congress OBC department head
- Anil Jaihind
- Notification date
- August 14
- Location
- New Delhi
- News agency
- PTI
