Hyderabad, Aug. 16 -- Telangana Minister Ponnam Prabhakar has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the Centre to include comprehensive data on Other Backwards Classes (OBCs) in the nationwide caste census and strongly objecting to the omission of specific OBC-related questions from the recently released questionnaire.

Addressing a press conference here, Prabhakar said the Centre's decision to proceed with 40 questions without explicitly mentioning OBCs was a serious injustice to the Backwards Classes.

He said a caste census must provide scientifically reliable data on the population of BCs, along with other socially and economically disadvantaged communities. Such data, he argued, was essential for ensuring proportionate repre...