Former Congress President and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that caste is a fundamental problem in India and is the root of social inequality.
He called for removing the fifty percent cap on reservation.
Indian National Congress, quoting Rahul Gandhi at Washington DC said on X that “I have been repeatedly saying that we are going to increase reservation beyond 50 percent. We want to understand what’s going on and then we are going to apply a series of policies to correct it and reservation is one of them”.
He said that caste is a central and fundamental issue in India.
“The Congress party, even before independence, has always fought for the idea that India should be a fair country. The idea is that all citizens of India should be treated the same way.
The Rae Bareli MP said that there was a very deep problem of participation and the Congress will definitely address that problem.
Gandhi added that caste census will become the basis for making comprehensive plans to bring the Bahujans out of this quagmire of injustice.
