Overview

• At a Patna symposium, Rahul Gandhi presented the Ati Pichra Nyay Sankalp, a 10-point resolution focused on Extremely Backward Classes ahead of the Bihar elections.
• The alliance pledged a nationwide caste census to produce current data on OBC, EBC, SC and ST populations for policy design.
• The plan seeks to lift the 50% reservation ceiling by passing a law for inclusion in the Constitution’s Ninth Schedule, enabling quotas aligned with population share.
• Reservations would extend to private educational institutions and to government contracts up to ₹25 crore, with 50% set aside for EBC, OBC, SC and ST groups.
• The proposals include an EBC atrocities prevention law, raising EBC quotas in local bodies from 20% to 30%, allocating small residential land plots to landless families, scrapping “not found suitable” in hiring, and creating oversight bodies for lists and enforcement.