HYDERABAD: Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Thursday described Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as a torchbearer for the next generation of India.
“It was only due to Rahul Gandhi’s efforts and pressure that the Modi government was forced to announce that it would conduct the enumeration of castes during the Census,” Prabhakar said.
The minister, along with Cabinet colleague Adluri Laxman Kumar, MP Anil Kumar Yadav and other party leaders, took part in Rahul’s birthday celebrations organised by the Congress at Gandhi Bhavan.
Prabhakar said that the Kamareddy Declaration was conceived under Rahul Gandhi’s leadership and announced in the state, following which Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy conducted a caste survey after the Congress came to power.
Laxman Kumar stated that Rahul undertook the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to gain a deeper understanding of public issues. He stressed that only the Congress could do justice to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and other communities in the country. Laxman Kumar added that the Congress had done justice by appointing him as a minister and Mahesh Kumar Goud as the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president.
On the occasion of Rahul’s birthday, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, TPCC president B Mahesh Kumar Goud, ministers and other leaders extended their greetings to him on social media platforms.