bihar tejashwi yadav adamant on 85 percent reservation wrote a letter to cm nitish

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday wrote a letter to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar demanding a special session of the Legislative Assembly, where new laws can be brought to increase quota for weaker sections of the society to 85 percent. Leader of the Opposition Yadav shared a letter on social media, in which he accused the state government of deliberately defrauding the issue. Tejashwi wrote on X that a letter has been written to the Chief Minister Shri Nitish Kumar ji, who has failed to include the 65% reservation limit in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution in his own government in the Grand Alliance government.

Tejashwi Yadav further wrote that we will do what we have to do. The Dalit-Adivasi, backward-backward classes will also understand the opportunistic facilities carrying the palanquin of the RSS-BJP and will also understand the leaders of Bihar well with the judicious people of Bihar. He reminded that the previous law passed in 2023 was rejected by the Patna High Court, which expressed the idea that the increase in quota does not follow any “scientific study” that could highlight such a need.

The increase in quota was done on the basis of an ambitious survey of castes, which showed an increase in the population percentage of Dalits and backward classes compared to the 1931 census, when various social groups were counted for the last time. Yadava gave the example of Tamil Nadu, where “69 percent quota is applicable”, and said that Bihar can also save its reservation laws from judicial intervention. The RJD leader called for a “all -party committee” to create a “all -party committee” and then to call them “special sessions” to draft new laws. He also accused the BJP that it is in power in the state and rule at the center, and opposes reservation.