The RJD hopes to sharpen the old caste divide, the BJP balances on a double-edged sword and Nitish looks closely at his coalition of social extremes.
By the time the Bihar assembly passed the bill on 10 per cent reservation for the eco nomically weaker sections (EWS) in the general category on February 18, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav had already completed the first leg of his statewide Berozgaari hatao, aarakshan badhao (Remove unemployment, increase reservation) yatra.
Tejashwi attacked the EWS quota and the Narendra Modi government for breaching the Supreme Court mandated 50 per cent ceiling on quotas (it is now 59.5 per cent in Bihar). “Now that they’ve done it, they must increase quotas to 90 per cent and earmark the additional reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). Jiski jitni hissedari, uski utni bhagidari,” he says, demanding reservation in proportion to the population of castes or caste groups.
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