BJP seeks to mobilise EBC voters at Patna gathering

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Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary holds a mace during Ati Pichhda Samaj (Extremely Backward Community) Felicitation Ceremony astatine  Sri Krishna Memorial Hall, successful  Patna connected  June 22, 2026. Union MoS Nityanand Rai and Bihar Minister Pramod Chandravanshi were besides  present.

Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary holds a mace during Ati Pichhda Samaj (Extremely Backward Community) Felicitation Ceremony astatine Sri Krishna Memorial Hall, successful Patna connected June 22, 2026. Union MoS Nityanand Rai and Bihar Minister Pramod Chandravanshi were besides present. | Photo Credit: ANI

At an lawsuit held connected Monday (June 22, 2026) astatine the Sri Krishna Memorial Hall to felicitate newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Members of the Legislative Council, the enactment sought to mobilise Extremely Backward Class (EBC) voters successful the State.

The BJP has 5 EBC MLCs successful Bihar. Party leaders recalled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s publication to EWCs, and paid tributes to the precocious erstwhile Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, who belonged to an EWC community.

Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary; Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai; Bihar Minister of Art, Culture, Mining and Geology Pramod Kumar Chandravanshi, among others, spoke astatine the event.

There are 27 Ministers successful the Central authorities from Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and EBCs, enactment leaders said. “India has go the fastest increasing state successful the world,” Mr. Rai said, adding, “The EBCs are cardinal to each the payment policies of the Modi government.”

“Today, the children of our household are getting acquisition successful Central and Sainik Schools, and for this we consciousness obliged to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, nether whose enactment the state is progressing astatine a faster speed, arsenic is Bihar nether the enactment of Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary,” Mr. Chandravanshi, who hails from an EBC community, said.

“The NDA (National Democratic Alliance) authorities nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi has worked for the improvement of each sections of the society...he (Mr. Modi) himself is the bodyguard of the 36% EBC colonisation successful the State,” the Chief Minister said.

“Our authorities is taking strict enactment against organised transgression and criminals successful Bihar. The medication is committed to ensuring nationalist information is not compromised,” Mr. Choudhary said, and recalling the caller examination-related irregularities, added, “The authorities volition not tolerate immoderate effort to undermine the introspection system.”

“In the coming days, our (EBC-OBC) relation successful each 4 corners of Bihar volition beryllium strengthened. The NDA authorities has brought astir respective policies for the improvement of each sections of society, and respective of them are straight benefitting the EBC radical successful Bihar,” a solution passed astatine the lawsuit stated.

The two-page solution besides listed respective payment policies of the BJP-led NDA authorities successful Bihar. “Among the 1.61 crore ration paper holders from the EBC category, nutrient grains worthy ₹6,024.45 crore was distributed nether the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan scheme; implicit 1 crore radical of Bihar are receiving escaped aesculapian assistance of up to ₹5 lakh nether the Ayushaman Bharat scheme…Today, we tin accidental with pridefulness that ₹42 lakh crore has been distributed successful the state without immoderate corruption charges,” the solution said.

“Over 27 crore radical of the state person benefitted from antithetic policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” the solution added, and went connected to say, “We tin guarantee the PM and Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary that we are radical who bash hard labour, our labour is our lone capital, and we volition support supporting the NDA authorities for the payment policies made for us.”

Published - June 22, 2026 07:23 p.m. IST

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