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Hearing a writ plea challenging the Bihar Municipal Polls 2022 and the report of the dedicated Commission constituted by the state government to study the representation of Other Backward Classes...

Backward classes are supposed to be increasingly a politically influential segment of Indian society. So it should come as a surprise that only 6% of

Split In Bihar JDU: JDU national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias ‘Lalan’has called Upendra Kushwaha an over-ambitious party-hopper, whose return was ‘opposed by all, but materialised only at the insistence of the CM.

The assembly also passed a bill to identify 1932 as the cutoff year for being called a Jharkhandi. Those having their ancestors registered in land records till 1932 will benefit from the new policy.

A day after the Supreme Court backed the Centre's 10 per cent quota for the poor or EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) in jobs and education, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar called for a nationwide caste census.

Lalan Singh was speaking at an event to welcome former BJP leader Pavandev Chandravanshi and his supporters who switched over to the JD(U).

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister asks RJD leaders to "reach out and protect" those lower than them on caste ladder, tells them not to speak against partner JDU

A delegation of Bihar BJP leaders on Friday met Governor Phagu Chouhan and sought his intervention in deferment of civic polls in the light of the Patna High Court declaring "illegal" reservation of seats for OBC and Extremely Backward Classes.

Bihar Municipal Elections: “We suspect the BJP’s hand in the goof-up. The party and its parent body RSS have always been opposed to quotas,” the JD(U) leaders alleged.

Janata Dal (United) on Wednesday said that municipal polls will be held in Bihar only after reservations for OBCs and EBCs are restored.