Hours after Bihar became the first state in the country to release data from a caste-based survey, senior BJP leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh on Monday put a question mark over the report, terming it as "false".
"The caste-based survey is just an eyewash. There are thousands of castes in Bihar, but the Nitish Kumar government has released data based only on a few of them.
The report published today is false," Singh said while interacting with media persons in Begusarai.
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