New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh has accused the Narendra Modi government of expanding the eligibility criteria for enumerators for Census 2027 with an alleged political motive, warning that the move, viewed alongside an RSS training camp and a government committee's invitation for public inputs on demographic changes, could compromise the impartiality and credibility of the nationwide exercise.
In a strongly worded post on social media platform X, Ramesh alleged that the government's decision to widen the pool of eligible enumerators was part of a broader design to involve cadres associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the census p...