India
oi-Deepika S
Patna, Aug 23: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with a delegation of 10-members is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to demand a caste-based census today at 11:00 am.
“Caste-based Census would be not just for Bihar, people in the whole country will benefit from this,” Nitish Kumar said, who arrived in the national capital on Sunday.
He also sought to make light of queries about the BJP, his alliance partner, choosing a Dalit minister to join the delegation though both his deputies seemed to fit the bill as they belong to the backward classes.
“It is not an issue. Every party could nominate one person who also happens to be a member of either House of the legislature. So all parties sent names accordingly. Besides me there would be 10 delegates, all representing their respective parties”, Kumar said when asked about the saffron party picking up…