India, Aug. 25 -- Leaders of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the caste census issue, demanding that the government scrap the existing questionnaire for it and formulate a new one after consulting political parties, experts, and the general public.

Kharge and Gandhi said they do not accept the caste census being conducted in the current manner and urged the government to take cue from the caste surveys done in Telangana and Bihar.

Briefing reporters on the letter written in Hindi by Kharge and Gandhi on August 20, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the government's current efforts towards a caste census are just a "whitewash".

Ramesh said this is the third lette...