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In July 2021, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told Parliament that “ Government of India has decided as a policy that they cannot calculate the caste-wise population other than Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (STS) in the census. ,
By May 2025, this policy was converted to its head. The BJP government on Wednesday decided to organize a caste census with the upcoming census, the Mandal caste reservation of 1989 has come into a full political cycle.
Its echo is aimed at this moment on Minister Nityanand Rai’s state of Bihar, which goes to assembly elections in a few months and the largest number of other backward classes (OBCs) in India – if not the largest.
While the actual figures are the best opakar, the ups may have the largest number of OBCs, which are relaxed on estimates based on family registers and other data. Bihar and Andhra Pradesh follow with about one percent.
Nevertheless, this list is not final. The central and state OBC list varies fundamentally. With the state governments constantly connecting and connecting new castes, it changes, depending on political facilities. According to the National Commission of Backward Casts, Bihar tops the country with 136 OBCs, followed by 98 in West Bengal.
The political point is who will benefit this OBC calculation? A Sinha Institute of Social Studies, former director of Patna, says DM Diwakar, and currently associated with Vikas Research Institute, Jasanan, Bihar: “Whoever BJP can now do, the fact that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) raised the issue at the national level for the first time, and he is a controversial. But they did not get any commitment.”
According to most educated estimates, OBCs today forms more than 50 percent of Bihar’s population, with Muslims, SCS and upper castes accounting for something in the area around every 15%. For any realistic possibility of electoral success in the state, political parties and coalitions should secure a sufficient part of the OBC vote, and it should be increased with the support of some other, non-OBC electors.
OBC number of Bihar
Bihar’s OBCs include several caste groups, the eldest of which includes Yadav, Nishad, Kurmis and Koris. Yadav, who is considered as about 15 % of the state’s population, traditionally favors RJD led Lalu Prasad Yadav. Nitish Kumar, the current Chief Minister of Bihar and leader of the Janata Dal (United) or JD-U, has a major basis among the non-Yadav OBCs, including his own Kurmi caste, as the Rashtri Loktatric Samata Party leader Upendra Kushwaha, who appeals among his Kori caste.
In severe, the BJP has been asked about the consolidated support between Nishadas since 2014, it is believed that the state’s population was formed at least 10%, and hence the largest caste group among the most backward classes (EBCs) of Bihar, for a sub-region of OBCs, which has fully invited the BJP’s consolidation, which has been renovated by the BJP.
Theoretically, it keeps the saffron in a strong position, depending on the Nishadas and some of their companions important for its own support on the EBC, as well as on the upper castes, who have traditionally formed a reliable BJP vote bank.
In addition, the BJP is also telling a part of the SCS to diversify its appeal-and a component of the NDA headed by Chirag Paswan, Lok Jashthakti Party is expected to support the BJP-led alliance with Pasvans, it is believed that it is believed to account for the third part of the SC population of Bihar. This time, however, Ram Vilas Pawan scones can be difficult to go, which is largely unaffected by OBC reservation.
In the 2020 assembly elections in Bihar, these were the factors that inspired the BJP for all the time of 74 assembly seats of 110 competitions, which finished one improvement in 53 assembly seats won in 2015, another place close to 75 seats of RJD.
According to journalist Pranab Chaudhary, the story of OBC has been chased by Rahul Gandhi, which has been taken away by the BJP. “ The message has gone down. This is the BJP, which is going to implement the program, there is never any objection which was demanding it earlier. ,
Somewhere else in UP, SP boss Akhilesh Yadav tweeted that “the decision of caste census is 90% PDA or” Picre “(Backward), Dalits and” Minority “(minority) is 100% win of unity of unity. Due to joint pressure of all of us, the BJP government has been forced to take this decision.”
Lots of challenges will depend on the challenges that the enumerators can withstand in any new attempt, as well as complications of huge exercise.
However, Diwakar believes that the 2022 Bihar caste survey has softened the sting to the BJP’s decision, which placed the OBC percentage at 63.14. Out of this, EBC formed 36.1%, while OBC was judged at 27.13 percent.
In other places, Karnataka and Telangana have also announced about changes and proposals in their respective OBC lists and reservation policies. Karnataka OBC is considering increasing reservation and potentially revising the existing categories. Telangana has already passed a law to increase reservation for backward classes, which may be more than 50 percent of the Supreme Court.
Rai is divided on who will get profit, but OBC value as vote bank is undisputed. OBCs were included by the 1980 Divisional Commission report, 52% of the country’s population and was scheduled to be 41% in 2006 when the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) was. There are many people who believe that OBC numbers can also be high.
Whatever the BJP can do now, the fact is that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) raised the issue at the national level for the first time, and they are going to achieve.
The 1931 census organized by the colonial British government had also launched the number of OBCs at 52% of the total 271 million population of the country. The figure became the basis of the recommendation of the Mandal Commission in 1980, which was to provide 27% reservation to the OBCs in education and government jobs, which was implemented only in 1990.
Some of the BJP government are doubting the numbers collected by the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) of 2011 organized by the Manmohan Singh government, which is a comprehensive survey organized across India, which aims to collect data on homes and their socio-economic characteristics, whose conclusions were never made public. The risk with such approaches is that another political spread can reduce the findings of the current government.
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