Overview

• Jairam Ramesh accused the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government of abandoning its promise to implement a 65% quota for SCs, STs, OBCs and EBCs in Bihar
• The Congress has outlined a three-step legislative strategy to secure the quota by placing the law in the Ninth Schedule, amending the Constitution to lift the 50% cap and enforcing Article 15(5) for private institutions
• Legal challenges have stalled the reservation plan, triggering its current status under judicial review
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is touring Bihar to inaugurate infrastructure projects such as the Vaishali–Deoria rail line ahead of the October assembly elections
• Congress leaders plan to press their reservation safeguards as a central social justice agenda in the Monsoon session of Parliament