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With an eye on EBCs, Rahul set to announce 'Nyay Patra' in Bihar
Hindustan Times Delhi
|September 24, 2025
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will announce a raft of sops for Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) in the party’s Nyay Patra (poll manifesto) for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections after the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), setting the stage for the party's renewed approach to woo voters from the marginalised section, said a party leader.
The EBC—which comprises 112 communities, constituting around 36% of Bihar’s population, according to the 2023 state caste survey report—is the largest social group in the state and plays a key role in deciding the fate of elections. Although not a separate constitutional category like SC or ST, the EBC is often seen as a subgroup within the larger Other Backward Classes (OBC) category, created to identify the most deprived castes among the backward castes.
This story is from the September 24, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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