{"id":172705,"date":"2021-09-26T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=172705"},"modified":"2021-09-26T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T18:43:12","slug":"union-minister-ramdas-athawale-backs-demand-for-caste-based-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/26\/union-minister-ramdas-athawale-backs-demand-for-caste-based-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Union minister Ramdas Athawale backs demand for caste-based census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indore (MP), Sep 25 (PTI) Union minister and NDA ally Ramdas Athawale on Saturday said the Republican Party of India (A), his party, favors caste-based census.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Janata Dal (United) and Apna Dal, two other NDA allies, have already supported the demand. The BJP-led Union government, on the other hand, recently told the Supreme Court that carrying out a caste-based census was not feasible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My party is of the view that the census should be caste-based. The government should think about it,&#8221; said Athawale, minister of state for social justice and empowerment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His party does not believe that such an enumeration would promote casteism, Athawale, a prominent Dalit leader from Maharashtra, told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indore (MP), Sep 25 (PTI) Union minister and NDA ally Ramdas Athawale on Saturday said the Republican Party of India (A), his party, favors caste-based census. Janata Dal (United) and Apna Dal, two other NDA allies, have already supported the demand. The BJP-led Union government, on the other hand, recently told the Supreme Court that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}