Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi founder Thol. Thirumavalavan on Monday said Other Backward Class (OBC) communities and OBC leaders (those who support the BJP) must rethink their support for the RSS-BJP as they had “opposed reservations for OBCs and withdrawn support for former Prime Minister V.P. Singh when he wanted to implement recommendations of the Mandal Commission.“
Mr. Thirumavalavan made these comments at a seminar organised by the Tamil Nadu Congress OBC-Backward Classes Department about the need and importance for a caste census in India at Kamarajar Arangam in Chennai on Monday. The event was held following the recent speech made in Parliament by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who raised the question of why the Union government has not made the Caste Census data public.
The VCK chief said he was happy that a demand (Socioeconomic Caste Census), which has been made over the years by the Dravidar Kazhagam, Communist parties, and VCK, has been made mainstream by Mr. Gandhi.
