India News | BJP Welcomes Patna High Court's Decision on Caste Survey in Bihar
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. BJP leader Sanjay Jaiswal on Tuesday welcomed the Patna High Court judgement on the Bihar government's decision to conduct a survey of castes in the state, saying nobody had any objection to it.
New Delhi, Aug 1 (PTI) BJP leader Sanjay Jaiswal on Tuesday welcomed the Patna High Court judgement on the Bihar government's decision to conduct a survey of castes in the state, saying nobody had any objection to it.
Senior BJP leader and then finance minister Tarkishore Prasad had even allocated Rs 500 crore for the survey when the party was at helm as coalition partner of Nitish Kumar led Janata Dal (United) in Bihar, Jaiswal, a former Bihar BJP president, told PTI when asked for his comment on the court's decision.
In what was seen as a shot in the arm for the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar, the Patna High Court on Tuesday upheld the caste survey ordered by it as "perfectly valid" and "initiated with due competence".
A division bench comprising Chief Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Partha Sarathy passed the order rejecting a bunch of petitions challenging the survey, which was ordered last year and began earlier this year.
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"We welcome the court's decision. We have been saying since the beginning that nobody has any objection to the decision taken by all the parties for the caste survey,” Jaiswal told PTI in Parliament House Complex.
"Finance minister Tarkishore Prasad had even earmarked a fund of Rs 500 crore for this," he added.
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