Updated On: 08 September, 2023 03:48 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Jairam Ramesh, Congress MP and General Secretary (Communications) said that not conducting a census is “an unprecedented failure” in the history of the nation

Jairam Ramesh
The Congress party, training guns at the union government, said that the 18th G20 summit with India’s rotational presidency revealed the NDA government’s “biggest failures”. The party claimed an estimated 14 crore citizens are excluded from food entitlements as the National Democratic Alliance government failed to conduct the “decadal Census” which was due in 2021. The grand old party also termed the NDA as ‘No Data Available’ as it claimed that every G20 country except India has managed to conduct the census, despite the pandemic.
Jairam Ramesh, Congress MP and General Secretary (Communications) said that not conducting a census is “an unprecedented failure” in the history of the nation. He, in a statement, said, “The start of the 18th G20 summit today with India’s rotational presidency is a moment for reflection, revealing one of the biggest failures of the NDA (No Data Available) Government it has failed to conduct the decadal Census that was due in 2021. The Modi government is so inept and incompetent that it has been unable to carry out India’s most important statistical exercise which has been conducted on schedule since 1951. This is an unprecedented failure in the history of our nation.”