New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi kicked up a political row after he said the Army is "under the control of 10 per cent of the country's population", referring to the so-called upper castes, on Tuesday, the last day of campaigning for phase one elections scheduled on 6 November.

"Take out the list of the 500 biggest companies, and search for Dalits, Extremely Backward Classes, Mahadalits, minorities, Adivasis in them. You will not find anyone. You won't find a single one. All of them come from the 10% population," Rahul Gandhi said, referring to key leadership positions at large.

"All the bank wealth goes to them. All the jobs go to them. They get a place in the bureaucracy," Gandhi told the crowd at the rally at ...