Overview

• Tejashwi Yadav has demanded a one-day special session of the Bihar Assembly to pass a bill raising quotas for Dalits, OBCs and EBCs to 65–85% and safeguard it in the Ninth Schedule after court challenges
• BJP leaders portray the caste enumeration as a key part of the Modi government’s empowerment agenda and insist the forthcoming data will enable targeted development policies
• RJD spokesperson Manoj Jha and opposition INDIA bloc figures accuse the Centre of withholding OBC population figures to mislead backward communities and undermine reservation expansion
• Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal counters by pointing to past Congress and RJD governments’ failure to enhance quotas and labels the current demand as partisan politicking
• With the 2025 Assembly elections looming, both the NDA and opposition are leveraging reservation and caste census debates to mobilize support among marginalized voters