Bihar polls: 10% of population controls Army, says Rahul, stirs row

AURANGABAD: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi stirred controversy Tuesday by claiming "10% of the country's population" controls the Army, comments seen as an allusion to upper castes. "...Only 10% of the country's population get opportunities in corporate sectors, bureaucracy, and judiciary. .. even the Army is under their control. The remaining 90% - backward classes, Dalits, STs, and minorities - are nowhere to be seen," Rahul said while campaigning in Bihar's Aurangabad and Kutumba ahead of the first phase of assembly polls on Thursday. The comments echoed calls by Congress's Rahul and other opposition parties over the past year for a national caste census but this was the first time he had referred to the Army while highlighting such demands. Rahul asserted that such