"Will Think Of Scrapping Of Reservations When India Is Fair": Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi emphasised the need for the caste census, which he said has three components -- institutional survey, socio-economic survey, and census.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi raised the caste census issue during his US visit and said that the party will call for the scrapping of reservations only when "India is a fair place".

During an interaction with the students and the faculty of Georgetown University in Washington DC, Mr Gandhi said, "The elephant in the room is that 90 per cent of India -- OBCs, Dalits and Adivasis don't play the game...Caste census is a simple exercise to know how the lower castes, backward castes and Dalits are integrated into the system...Out of the top 200 businesses in India, there is almost no ownership of 90 per cent of the population of India. In the highest courts of the country, there is almost no participation of 90 per cent of India. In media, there is zero participation of lower castes, OBCs, Dalits..."

"...We want to understand what their social and financial position looks like...We also want to look at the Indian institutions to have a sense of India's participation in these institutions.."