{"id":240218,"date":"2024-05-13T00:04:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=240218"},"modified":"2024-05-13T00:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T18:34:17","slug":"congress-will-do-x-ray-of-country-through-caste-census-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/13\/congress-will-do-x-ray-of-country-through-caste-census-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress will do &#8216;X-ray&#8217; of country through caste census: Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 12 May:<\/strong> Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday targetted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that while the BJP has been &#8220;counting the notes&#8221; it got from &#8220;tempo wale billionaires,&#8221; his party will conduct a caste census to ensure equality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Congress president was reacting to Modi&#8217;s remarks on the Congress receiving cash loaded in tempos from Adani and Ambani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a post on X, Gandhi said, &#8220;They have been &#8216;counting notes&#8217; they got from &#8216;tempo wale billionaires&#8217; for the last 10 years. We will X-ray the country through caste census and ensure equitable share for every section.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also shared a party advertisement which takes on the government over the caste census issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gandhi and other Congress leaders have said that the PM should order a CBI or ED probe into whether Adani and Ambani had sent them black money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress has also asked the prime minister to share his views on a socioeconomic census.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party in its manifesto has promised to conduct a nationwide socioeconomic and caste census to enumerate the castes and sub-castes and their socioeconomic conditions. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 12 May: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday targetted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that while the BJP has been &#8220;counting the notes&#8221; it got from &#8220;tempo wale billionaires,&#8221; his party will conduct a caste census to ensure equality. The former Congress president was reacting to Modi&#8217;s remarks on the Congress receiving cash [&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-240218","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\/240218","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=240218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}