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In Patna, Rahul spells out INDIA bloc's EBC outreach
The Morning Standard
|September 26, 2025
BIHAR’S Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs), comprising 36.01 per cent of the state’s population, are going to play a significant role in the assembly elections as the pattern of voting among them is likely to undergo significant change this time.
EBCs have been traditionally voting for the BJP-led NDA but their votes are up for grabs now as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who commanded larger support among EBCs, is at the fag end of his political career. It was Nitish who had carved out EBCs from Backward Classes and made them JD(U)’s core supporters.
This story is from the September 26, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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