Home Minister Amit Shah should focus on serious issues like Manipur, caste census: Kharge

New Delhi, Sep 30: On a day Home Minister Amit Shah attacked him for his remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said Shah should focus on serious issues such as the Manipur situation, census and a caste census.

Shah on Monday termed Kharge's remarks on Prime Minister Modi at a public meeting in Jammu and Kashmir "absolutely distasteful and disgraceful".

In a post in Hindi on X, Kharge said, "Home Minister Amit Shah should focus on serious issues like Manipur, census and caste census."

"Your government's own survey says that 92% of the employees cleaning urban sewers and septic tanks come from SC, ST, OBC categories," the Congress chief said.

"The BJP is against caste census because then it will be known by which work SC, ST, OBC, EWS and all other categories are earning their livelihood. What is their economic and social status? What kind of targeted benefits of government schemes should they get?" Kharge said.

He asserted that the Congress party is firmly committed to getting a caste census done. "We will get it done," he added.