A meeting of the Union Cabinet is likely to take a decision on the issue of caste-based census next week, amid indications that the government may concede to the demands from various parties for such an exercise.
"The issue of caste census is expected to come before the Cabinet next week," government sources said.
The indication to this effect came after a meeting of Congress Core Group presided over by party chief Sonia Gandhi.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister P Chidambaram, senior leaders Pranab Mukherjee, A K Antony and Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel attended the meeting.
Finance Minister Mukherjee has already justified the demand for conducting a caste-based census and said it should not have been discontinued post-independence.
"The caste-based census was last conducted in the year 1931 and the practice should have continued in the post-independence period also but it did not happen. Now the UPA government has taken an initiative in this regard," he had said at Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh a few days back.
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