New Delhi, June 27: With assembly polls due in Bihar later this year, political parties have gone on an offensive to woo different caste and community groups in the state.
While the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP government has made a bid for some new social engineering by attempting to carve out Mahadalits from among SCs and Extremely Backward Castes (EBCs) from the OBCs, Lalu Prasad’s RJD and Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP are trying to bring Muslims, Dalits, OBCs and upper castes under one umbrella.
Congress, which had for the last over one decade played second fiddle to Lalu Prasad in Bihar, has this time decided to “go solo”, which is considered a long-term move to create a separate identity for the party once again. Congress had ruled the state till 1990 when Janta Dal came to power and Lalu Prasad became the Chief Minister.
–PTI