The Janata Dal (United) party recently called out Rahul Gandhi for being two-faced about the caste census. They said when their leader Nitish Kumar brought up the census at meetings for the INDIA bloc Gandhi stayed quiet. Now they’re saying Gandhi is being a hypocrite for not supporting it back then but now talking about it.
This all came up because Gandhi recently called the caste survey in Bihar “fake.” The JD(U) thinks it’s weird that he’d criticize it now after being silent about it before. Sanjay Jha a leader in the JD(U) is using this to show that Gandhi isn’t being truthful about the caste census and shouldn’t be trusted.
To make things worse the JD(U) also asked why the Congress government in Karnataka hasn’t shared the caste data they collected. They see this as another sign that the Congress party doesn’t really care about the caste census. This whole thing is a big way for the JD(U) to push back against Gandhi’s criticism and challenge his stance on the issue.