In a press release issued here today, Mr Yadav, MP and former union minister, said the youth of the country must come out openly in support of Mr Bhagwat's statement. Caste system in India is the nation's curse which has encaged a vast section of the country's youth . It is necessary that the system is ;uprooted, Mr Yadav said.

A staunch Lohiaite, Mr Yadav recalled late Dr Ram Manohar Lohia's countrywide movement in 1960 to break the shackles of the caste system in India with his slogan 'jaati todo, rashtra jodo'(break the caste system and unite the nation).

Mr Yadav said the RSS chief's statement that India's real potential cannot be achieved without breaking the caste system was worthy of praise and emulatioin.