As the dispute over caste census steps up with the majority of parties rooting for it, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan is clear where he stands on the contentious matter.

If anyone asked Amitabh to mention his caste, he said that he is an Indian.

Census enumerators gathered outside the Bachchan house, prompting Amitabh to give his opinions on caste census.

On his blog bigb. bigadda. com, Big B wrote, "Wary of the sensitivity that this has raised recently by politicians, they keep away from it. They reason that they would wait for some government decision on this. I tell them irrespective of what the system decides, my answer is ready - caste, Indian."

The actor said that his father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was of the view that everyone in the country is an 'Indian'.

He never believed in caste system, he added.

"My Father never believed in caste and neither do any of us. He married a Sikh (Teji Bachchan), I married a Bengali (Jaya Bhaduri), my brother a Sindhi (Ramola), my daughter (Shweta) a Punjabi (Nikhil Nanda), my son (Abhishek) a Mangalorean (Aishwarya Rai)... in his autobiography he (Harivansh Rai) had expressed that future generations of his family should marry into different parts of the country. So far that tradition has been kept alive!!"

Indian PM Manmohan Singh announced that a verdict on caste-based census will be announced shortly.

"From the morning a consensus on the census. Officials from the BMC, the Bombay Municipal Corporation, troop into Prateeksha to detail in on information that shall for the first time in India develop for every citizen the UID - a Unique Identity Card.

The leaders asking for caste to be registered during the census exercise are Deputy leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav. (With Inputs from Agencies)