Casteism must be ended through socio-economic equality: Nitin Gadkari

Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has expressed concerns about the opposition’s demand for a caste census, pointing out that backwardness has become an issue for political exploitation.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian from Nagpur also believes that his party and the Mahayuti alliance of which it is a part will reverse the trend of the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra the alliance won only 17 of the 48 seats with the rival INDIA bloc winning 30.

He added that this will be on account of the work done by the Narendra Modi-led Union government and the Mahayuti state government, and because the BJP has managed to address the perception problem that dogged it during the Lok Sabha polls.