Headline : Census to kranti: How Rahul Gandhi framed quotas as wealth re-distribution tool

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Almost year ago, on April 16, 2023, Rahul Gandhi first spoke about jitni abadi, utna haq or proportional representation in Kolar, ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections. Even after a win in the state, the Congress Working Committee, which met in October last year, refrained from spelling out this line. It passed a resolution merely saying a “nationwide caste census will reveal an accurate picture of the socio-economic position of communities across the country and provide a sound, data-driven basis for policies to strengthen the foundations of social justice and ensure inclusive development.”

This carefully worded statement is now effectively out of the window as Rahul has steadily ratcheted up the rhetoric, framing the caste census not just as a means but as an end — conflating the three critical issues of inequality, concentration of wealth, and caste census, leaving gaping holes for interpretation, to the dismay of a section of his colleagues.

Over the course of the year, he has talked about an “X-ray”, a financial survey which will make everything clear — doodh ka doodh, paani ka paani — about who owns what and earns how much, and krantikari policies to achieve social justice and economic welfare. And when Sam Pitroda served the idea of inheritance tax for redistribution of wealth, it almost seemed Rahul Gandhi had prepared the ground for that.

For the BJP, already flagging what it calls the Congress’s “appeasement politics and economics,” it has now alleged that the growing middle class are threatened by such policy prescriptions, that their wealth too would be “grabbed” by the government.

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